Archive for the ‘Kishore Kumar songs’ Category
O pi pi piyaa
Posted on: July 3, 2009
Though Kishore Kumar had made his singing debut in “Ziddi”(1948) three years ago under the music direction of Khemchand Prakash, it was in 1950s that he was taken by S D Burman under his wings. It was then that Kishore Kumar developed his unique singing style.
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This movie called “Preet Ki Dori” (1971) is not well known, since the movie obviously flopped at the box office. It had Parikshit Sahni and Tanuja in lead roles.
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When I select songs to be posted in a day, I ensure that they are of different moods, genres etc. And indeed this song is of a different mood from the other two. But I am surprised to know that all the three songs that I have posted so far have their music directors and lyricists in common. Madan Mohan is the music director and Rajinder Krishan is the lyricist in all these three songs.
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Michael hai to cycle hai
Posted on: June 30, 2009
There is one genre of songs in Bollywood that could be called Kishore kumar acted comedy songs. These songs, where Kishore Kumar acts as well as sings, and in addition does some great comedy as well, are worth going miles to watch.
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Do akalmand huye fikrmand
Posted on: June 25, 2009
Here is a fun song from a lesser known movie called “Akalmand”(1966). This was a movie produced by I S Johar, and as was his wont his movie used to have a light hearted look at things. So in this movie he ties up with Kishore Kumar.
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Here is a fun song from a movie called “Bewaqoof” (1960). In this movie Kishore Kumar and Pran are seen monkeying around.
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This is a wonderful song to listen to. and curiously, I first listened to this song only recently, even though the song is from a movie called “Sab Ka Saathi” that was released in 1972 !
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Tu jahaan main wahaan
Posted on: June 22, 2009
“Garam Khoon” (1980) was a movie starring Vinod Khanna and Sulakshana Pandit. Neither the movie nor its songs made much of an impression when the movie was released in 1979.
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This song is a quintessential “villain’s den” party song that we tended to have in Bollywood movies of 1970s. In most of these songs, the hero and heroine would enter villain’s high security party as the lead singers/dancers yet the villains would remain in the dark till the song is over.
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Introduction songs were quite frequent in Bollywood movies till 1970s. Later on, they become less frequent.
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