Archive for the ‘Kishore Kumar songs’ Category
Guzar jaayen din din din
Posted on: September 19, 2009
I have mentioned in the past that Salil Chaudhary’s music was about quality rather than quantity. Just about every song that he created was a labour of love. He spent lots of time getting inspiration for his tunes. When he was in search of inspiration for new tunes, he would go to his kitchen a cook a delicacy (Illish fish, perhaps ?) and he would come up with his tunes.
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When one thinks of the music of “Blackmail” (1973), its song “pal pal dil ke paas” readily comes to mind. Most people, including me, remember only this one song from this movie.
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I had posted a remarkable comedy song from “Bandi” (1957) which was sung by Kishore Kumar and picturised on hmself. Now I find that this movie has a great serious song too, once again sung by Kishore Kumar and picturised on himself.
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Bollywood movies have songs on many topics, and the most important topic is obviously “love”. Boy is shown falling in love with a girl and is shown expressing his love with a song. The girl will initially disapprove of his attention then begin responding and would be found joining towards the end of the song.
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“Swayamwar” (1980) was a nice movie with a “Chandamama” style story. And that was not surprising, because this movie was produced by the same people who were the owners of this popular childrens’ magazine.
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Ek roz hamaari bhi daal galegi
Posted on: August 25, 2009
When I look at the star cast of “Bandi” (1957), I notice that it had all the Ganguly brothers viz Ashok Kumar, Anoop Kumar and Kishore Kumar in it and the three leading ladies in this movies were Bina Rai, Shyama and Nanda. That way this movie must have been like “Chalti Ka Naam Gaadi”. I wonder what happened to “Bandi” at the box office. With this kind of star cast, the movie certainly promised so much.
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Ye bhi hakka
Posted on: August 24, 2009
Kishore Kumar as hero and Pran as villain was a recipe for great fun throughout the movie. And “Jaalsaaz” (1959) was one such movie.
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Hello Hello ji
Posted on: August 16, 2009
Telephones may be ubiquitous and affordable these days, but they were regarded as a luxury item in India till just two decades back. Getting a telephone connection took as long as getting a ration card or a gas connection in India of yesteryears.
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It is generally felt that longevity of a song is assured only if the song is serious in nature.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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