Archive for the ‘Kishore Kumar songs’ Category
“Prem Pujaari” (1970) seemingly had songs for all occasions. Here is a lovely heartwarming romamtic song from this movie.
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This post is written by Raja, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie songs and a regular visitor of this blog
Often the catchy songs that you sing in your childhood stay with you for the rest of your life.
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Thanks to the farmaish by my readers, I have realised that “Mastaana” (1954) has some nice songs in it. When I listened to this song from “Mastaana” (1954), I realised that I had hit a goldmine.
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Yaadon mein wo sapnon mein hai
Posted on: August 9, 2010
“Swaami”(1977) is a movie that was produced by Hema Malini’s mother (Jaya Chakravarty) and this movie had Girish Karnad and Shabana Azmi in lead roles. Though none of the people involved were of Bengal background, but this movie was based on the backdrop of Bengal.
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Ruk jaa roktaa hai ye deewaanaa
Posted on: August 5, 2010
“Mr X in Bombay” (1964) was the first movie where Laxmikant Pyarelal and Kishore Kumar worked together for the first time, and the result was some outstanding music. The fact that Kishore Kumar acted in the movie certainly helped.
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Main shaayar badnaam
Posted on: July 31, 2010
While posting songs from the golden era of Bollywood movies, I have tended to concentrate more on the songs of 1950s and 1960s, even though I grew up with songs of 1970s. Just like we these days lament about the quality of Bollywood movie songs today and cite old Bollywood movie songs as the epitome of quality, the same lament was heard even in 1970s. Even I was under the impression that the quality of music in 1970s was not what it was in the earlier years. Now of course I can have a hearty laugh at my own expense with the benefit of hindsight.
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This is celebration time again for this blog. And incidentally this is the third such occasion for this blog in this month that we are celebrating some landmark. On 11 july 2010, this blog completed 2600 songs and on 19 july 2010, this blog turned Two years old. And today on 30 july 2010, this blog completes yet another century.
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I have heard this song many a times, but I was not aware which movie this song is from. But then one can enjoy songs even without knowing their details. But it always helps if we know the details, because then we can appreciate the msong even more.
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Samjhautaa ghamon se kar lo
Posted on: July 24, 2010
This title song/ theme song from “Samjhauta” (1973) has gone on to become an iconic song. I was under the impression that I had posted this song already, but farmaishes from several readers made me realise that I had not posted this song so far.
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It is said that Indians do not have sense of humour, and that is why comedy movies in India in general and Bollywood in particular have been few and far between. Movies dealing with action, romance, mythology and many other subjects are common but movies dedicated to comedy are very few.
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