Archive for the ‘Kishore Kumar songs’ Category
Chaand raat tum ho saath
Posted on: November 19, 2012
Most Hindi movies tend to be made on “serious” topics. Light hearted fun movies are are quite few because making such movies obviously takes more skill and ability than making movies of mainstream topics.
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Plagiarism, or what is euphemistically called “taking inspiration” is nothing new for hindi movies. We have instances of movies which have been lifted frame by frame from movies from some other countries, and that too without acknowleding the fact. And in case people come to know about such acts, the makers of the plagiarised movie are often quite defiant about it and refuse to acknowledge the fact.
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This article is written by Peevesie’s mom, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
A few days back on the occasion of Amitabh and Rekha’s birthday I spoke of how famous or popular or well received their pairing was in Bollywood movies. There were other such equally popular jodis. Viz. Rishi Kapoor- Neetu Singh, Vinod Mehra- Moushmi Chaterjee, Rajesh Khanna with Sharmila Tagore, Rajesh Khanna with Mumtaz, Rajesh Khanna with Asha Parekh etc in my growing up years. Actually I thought that Jaya Bhaduri never made a geat pair on screen with Amitabh, I liked her more with Sanjeev Kumar or even Jeetendra. There were popular pairing in the previous generation of stars too. But I think we have more knowledgeable people in our group to list them. Now what made a pairing popular was how well they looked together or how had their movie fared at the box office or how much recall value their songs had.
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Ho keh do keh do tum jo keh do
Posted on: November 8, 2012
One of the major reasons behind the success of Rajesh Khanna movies during his superstar days was their lilting music. What amazing songs these movies had. Rajesh Khanna’s superstar days are long gone and even Rajesh Khanna is no longer among us but the music of those songs continue to remain alive in memory.
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Aaj madhosh huaa jaaye re
Posted on: November 7, 2012
“Sharmilee” (1971) was a Subodh Mukherji production movie. It was directed by Samir Ganguly. The movie had Shashi Kapoor, Rakhi, Nazir Hussain, Narendranath, Ranjeet, Uma Dhawan, Dulari, Asit Sen, Anita Dutt, Kundan, Iftekhar, Rashid Khan, Jayshree T, Krishnakant etc in it.
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Hamen tujh bin kaun sambhaale
Posted on: November 7, 2012
“Door Gagan Ki Chhaaon Mein” (1964) was a sensitively produced movie about the travails of a father who has a child who has lost his speech after an accident. When all hopes of his recovery are dashed then the father (played by Kishore Kumar) turns to God for help.
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Jaani O Jaani
Posted on: November 4, 2012
“Raja Jani”(1972) was produced by Madan Mohla and directed by Mohan Segal. The movie had Dharmendra, Hema Malini, Nadira, Premnath, Johny Walker, Helen, Sajjan, Hiralal, Manmohan, C. S. Dubey, Bhushan Tiwari, Bindya, Durga Khote, Prem Chopra etc in it.
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Hum bechaare pyaar ke maare
Posted on: November 2, 2012
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Imagine that you reached someplace where a song is playing, probably on a radio. But unfortunately it seems you have missed almost the entire song. What you hear as you get into listening range is just the last one or two lines playing. The words you hear do not seem to be part of the main song lyrics. And the words you hear do not seem to make a coherent sentence. You may just skip the thought and move on. Or if you are more Hindi-film-music inclined, you would start to wonder what the song was and who would have been the singer of this song, of which you have heard just a snippet.
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“Aakraman” (1975) was a title that came as a surprise to me. Those were the days when Hindi movies did not have titles in Textbook Hindi. “Aakraman” is Hindi/ Sanskrit for “Attack”. The tendency for movie makers those days was the use a word like “Hamla” instead of “Aakraman”, even though it was a word of normal usage in Hindi textbooks. That way one needs to give some credit to the makers of this movie that he used a Hindi title for a Hindi movie.
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Desh chhudaaye bhesh chhudaaye
Posted on: October 31, 2012
“Chacha Zindabad”(1959) was a Light and Shade production. It was directed by Om Prakash. The movie had Kishore Kumar, Anita Guha, Jagirdar, Anoop Kumar, Raj Mehra, Manorama, Tuntun, Sunder, Bhagwan, Om Prakash etc in it.
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