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O nirdayi preetam
Posted on: November 23, 2009
It is often said that one needs to use heavy duty Urdu words to come up with romantic ( as well as other kinds of) songs, and people agree. But the facts are, most of the lyricists in the formative years of Bollywood movie songs were more familiar with Urdu and they created such songs using words they were more comfortable with. Listeners who were not familiar with Urdu were often clueless about many words in these songs. Many listeners, such as yours truly, did not know what words like “ulfat”, fitrat” etc meant. People would guess about the meanings of these words in the context of the topic. Sometimes their guess would turn out to be correct, and sometimes not.
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Wo paas bhi rahkar paas nahin
Posted on: November 21, 2009
When I was young, I disliked old songs, and I would only listen to new songs, which meant songs of 1970s. But now I cannot have enough of old songs, viz songs of 1950s and even earlier. In fact, I love the music of the songs in these songs.
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In Shammi Kapoor movies, it is Shammi Kapoor who normally gives ladies a hard time, but in this song, it is Shammi Kapoor who finds himself at the receiving end. This is a swimming pool song, and Shammi Kapoor finds himself inside the pool, and he is seen trying to stay afloat.
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Husnlal Bhagatram were perhaps the first music directors who formed a team and composed music by their combined names. Later on, their lead was taken by Shankar Jaikishan, and then by Kalyanji Anandji, Laxmikant Pyarelal etc. Incidentally, Bhagatram’s brother, called Pt Amarnath, was a music director too.
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I have posted several songs from “Mughal e Azam” (1960) and many more need to be posted. Just about every song of this movie was a classic that is a feast for the ears and eyes even to this date.
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When one is looking for musical gems from the past, there are just too many of them. One big source of such great songs is the so called B and C grade movies. Look for the music of the music directors of such movies, and you will strike pay dirt.
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Baat baat mein rootho naa
Posted on: November 9, 2009
“Seema” (1955) is a movie where Nutan played a tragedy queen role for the first time. As befitted her role, she would remain sad in the movie all the time.
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Din hain pyaare pyaare
Posted on: November 9, 2009
I have posted a song from “Kaali Ghataa” (1951) in the past. Here is another song from this movie.
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I have posted three songs from “Baadal” (1951) in the past. Here is another lovely song from this movie.
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In Bollywood, actors tend to be typecast, and most people tend to have a preconceived notions about the roles played by various actors.
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