Archive for the ‘Lata solo’ Category
After posting an untypical Madan Mohan song, here is a song that bears the hallmark of a typical Madan Mohan song. It is a ghazal, it is sung by Lata, and it is picturised on Meena Kumari !
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Tum sang laage piyaa more nainaa
Posted on: May 21, 2010
Few people may have heard of this movie called “Taj” (1956). This movie had Pradeep Kumar and Vyjyanti Mala in lead roles. This pair had figured in the blockbuster “Naagin” (1954) and they were most likely signed up for this movie on the wake of their “Naagin” (1954) success.
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Abhi to main jawaan hoon
Posted on: May 19, 2010
“Abhi to main jawaan hoon” is a song that is mainly associated with Malika Pukhraj. But a song with similar lyrics was there in “Afsaanaa” (1951) as well and there it was sung by Lata.
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Bollywood movies of the past were like the Indian familiies of the past as far as keeping a limit on their songs/ children were concerned.
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Ruke ruke se qadam
Posted on: May 13, 2010
I thought that I had posted most songs of “Mausam” here. When I checked up yesterday, I was surprised to find that I had only posted one song from this movie.
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Apne sainyya se nainaa ladaaibe
Posted on: May 12, 2010
For many movie watchers, Meena Kumari and Raj Kumar epitomise tragedy roles. And if they are there together in a movie, then one may be justified in fearing the worst, viz ‘Kaajal” (1965). But fortunately, they did not start their careers with such roles, and they can be seen playing happier roles even together. “Ardhaangini” (1958) is one such movie where they were together playing happier roles.
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Dil ki shikaayat nazar ke shikwe
Posted on: May 10, 2010
I am fond of saying that Bollywood movies have one great “Chitthi” (letter) song every decade, beginning from 1960s. Thus we had Likhe jo khat tujhe(Kanyadaan)(1968) in 1960s, Daakiya daak laaya(Palkon ki chhaon mein)(1977) (Palkon Ki Chhaaon Mein” in 1970s, “Chitthi aayi hai aayi hai” (Naam) in 1980s and Sandese aate hain(Border)(1997) (Border) in 1990s. All these songs are already posted in this blog.
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Naa maaro nazariyaa ke baan
Posted on: April 24, 2010
“Pehli Jhalak” (1954) was a remake of a South Indian language movie. Kishore Kumar and Vyjyanti Mala were the lead actors in this Hindi version remake of this movie.
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Here is a lovely song from a mythological movie called “Veer Bhimsen”. As the name suggests, this movie was from the epic “Mahabharat”, and considering that it was about Bhim, one can guess that Dara Singh must have played the title role. Yes, that is correct. This movie had Dara Singh, Randhawa, Mumtaz, Mahipal, Anita Guha etc in this movie.
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Khudaa nigehbaan ho tumhaaraa
Posted on: April 15, 2010
“Mughal e Azam” (1960) was a mega block buster in all respects, be it the movie, or its music. There were several songs in this movie and almost all of them have gone on to become evergreen iconic songs.
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