Archive for the ‘joie de vivre’ Category
Sang basanti ang basanti
Posted on: January 22, 2009
“Raja aur rank” (1968 ) is a movie that the present generation of movie watchers are not much familiar with, and that is for good reasons too. The movie was eminently forgettable with a flimsy story line. The only well known actor in this movie was Sanjeev Kumar, and he too was a newcomer to Bollywood.
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“Guide” is a movie whose music was voted as containing the best music among all Bollywood movies, when an Indian magazine polled the industry insiders ( viz singers, lyricists and music directors). Coming from those who themselves create music for Bollywood movies, this was high praise indeed.
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Gore rang pe na itna gumaan kar
Posted on: January 8, 2009
It has been a quite a while since I last posted a Rajesh Khanna-Mumtaz song. So I present one more such song.
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Har chehra yahaan chaand
Posted on: January 8, 2009
I have been discussing Bollywood songs for the last several months. Most of these songs were composed by big established names. But there were a few songs that were created by less known music directors.
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Deewaane ka naam to poocho
Posted on: December 24, 2008
One fine day, I will count all the Rafi songs that he sang for Shammi Kapoor and find out how many such songs were there in all. There just seems to be so many of them. And all of them are so wonderful to listen to. Listening to these songs is a perfect recipe to cheer oneself up.
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Listening to this song is enough to make you feel rejuvenated and energised. And watching the video will leave you spellbound. That is what happened with me yesterday.
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Chaahiye thhoda pyaar
Posted on: December 17, 2008
“Lahu ke do rang” is a movie that would be loved by Helen’s fans. Here she plays a long and important role. Similarly, this movie would be loved by the fans of Vinod Khanna, Danny and Ranjeet too. Yes, all these baddies ( Vinod Khanna had become a hero by that time, though) are present in this movie.
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Aane se uske aaye bahaar
Posted on: December 11, 2008
If you are looking for a song to uplift your spirits, then look no further than this song from “Jeene Ki Raah”. Every time I listen to this song, I find my spirits soaring sky high.
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I accidentally stumbled upon this song yet again, and I was immediately reminded of 1972 when this song was very popular with most listeners. This song was regularly played in Radio Ceylon in the aaphi ke geet farmaishi programme. Its farmaish was sent not only from Jhumri Tilaiyya, but from other farmaish happy places as well.
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