Archive for the ‘Kishore Kumar solo’ Category
Main to chala jidhar chale rasta
Posted on: November 3, 2008
Wow ! This was a song that I liked very much those days, before I forgot all about it since the song stopped playing on radio and loudspeakers. And now I have listened to this song once again after some 35 years.
Read more on this topic…
Jaane chaman jaane bahaar
Posted on: November 2, 2008
I had listened to this song quite often in Radio Ceylon “aaphi ke geet” programme , which was a farmaishi programme catering to listeners from Jhumri Tilaiyya and elsewhere. But I do not think this song became particularly popular in Binaca geetmala or with those plying records on loudspeakers during those days of 1974. In fact, I was not even aware which movie this song was from.
Read more on this topic…
Meri lottery lag jaane waali hai
Posted on: October 29, 2008
There are many songs that become popular in its time and then go on to achieve evergreen status. And then there are many songs that achieve considerable popularity during their time, only to get forgotten with passage of time.
Read more on this topic…
Rungoli sajaao
Posted on: October 28, 2008
In 1950s and early 1960s, Kishore Kumar, in addition to playback singing, acted as an actor cum singer in movies. He was in fact the lead actor in many such movies, and he made a reasonably popular pair with Vyjyanti Mala those days.
Read more on this topic…
In case heroes of Bollywood movies need to save a damsel in distress, there are various methods. One method is direct action method, where the hero comes charging in and singlehandedly destroys the villain’s hideout.
Read more on this topic…
Kishore Kumar has sung some wonderful comedy songs in his long career. This blog has featured some of them. There are many great comedy songs of Kishore Kumar that remain to be posted.
Read more on this topic…
Hum bewafa hargiz na the
Posted on: October 21, 2008
The biggest bollywood hit of all time was “Sholay” that was released in 1975. This movie played on the same movie hall of Bombay for many years. When this movie was finally withdrawn, it was replaced by another movie, which was being so hyped those days that everyone felt it was going to be the biggest movie in Bollywood history, bigger than even “Sholay”. But when “Sholay” was finally replaced by thise movie whose title sounded similar, viz “Shalimar”, this movie “Shalimar” turned out to be the biggest damp squib in the history of Bollywood.
Read more on this topic…
The movie “Pavitra Paapi” is by and large forgotten. The fact that this movie had the lyrics and music by Prem Dhawan is also not known to many. But this forgotten movie has a song that is extremely well known.
Read more on this topic…




Recent comments