Archive for the ‘Lata solo’ Category
Vande Maataram
Posted on: August 15, 2010
“Vande Mataram” is perhaps the oldest of all the patriotic songs of India. It was written by Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay (1838-1894) as a part of his novel “Anand Math” in the 19th century. This song became a national song among many nationalists, and it so alarmed the British rulers that this novel was banned.
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Zulmi sang aankh ladi
Posted on: August 14, 2010
On popular demand from several of my readers, I am posting the remaing songs of “Madumati” (1958) these days. I have so far already posted six songs from this movie. Six timeless songs should be more than enough for one movie, but there are more such songs in this movie !
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Chale aaye re ham to
Posted on: August 13, 2010
I have said in the past that even the lesser known/obscure songs of the golden era movies were wonderful songs, in case we care to dig them up and listen to them again.
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“Shaheed” (1965) was a movie based on Bhagat Singh’s life and most songs were patriotic songs. Even other songs of this movie evoke patriotic fervour, such is the feeling that this movie brings about in its listeners.
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Indian independence also brought partition, and it caused human suffering on a large scale. Quite a few movies were made on this subject. “Lahore” (1949), starring Karan Dewan and Nargis was one of the first such movies on this subject.
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Kabhi to miloge jeewan saathi
Posted on: August 11, 2010
I have posted several nice songs from “Sati Savitri” (1964) in this song. I was not aware that this movie had so many wonderful songs in it.
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Indian culture has some values which may sound strange to westerners.
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Here is another Lata-Madan Mohan song picturised on Nargis. This song is from an obscure movie called “Dhun” (1953). This time lyrics is written by Kaifi Irfani.
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Madan Mohan had composed music for just over 700 movie songs in his career. So far I have posted as many as 127 of these songs in this blog which constitutes 18 % of all Madan Mohan songs. I am sure that with time, I will be able to post many more Madan Mohan songs.
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Teri yaad naa dil se jaa saki
Posted on: August 8, 2010
“‘Chaand Aur Suraj” (1965) was a movie starring Dharmendra and Tanuja, not to be confused with “Suraj Aur Chandaa” (1973) which had Sanjeev Kumar and Meeta in lead roles.
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