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There are many Bollywood movie songs where characters use sophisticated words to express their feelings. Then there are songs where feelings are expressed with simple lyrics.
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Mila hai kisi ka jhumka
Posted on: September 30, 2009
One of the most lovable category of songs are those that I call “mental massage” category. These are basically sweet, melodious songs with simple lyrics and minimal music that do not tax one’s mental faculties and make one feel relaxed .
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Wo to chale gaye ae dil
Posted on: September 29, 2009
“Sangdil” (1952) is a movie that had Dilip Kumar and Madhubala in lead roles. This movie was a musical blockbuster, going the quality of its music.
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“Qaidi no 911” (1959) was a “B grade” movie in the sense that it was an action thriller and it had Sheikh Mukhtar as action hero. When I say it was a B grade movie, I mean no disrespect. In fact, I think movies like this with Sheikh Mukhtar as hero were as good as the A grade action movies of 1970s. Yes, action movies had begun to be regarded as A grade by 1970s.
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Har aas ashqbaar hai
Posted on: September 26, 2009
I recently posted a song from “Kinaare Kinare” (1963). This movie was a melancholic movie with melancholic songs.
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Kahaan chhod ke chalaa hai tu
Posted on: September 26, 2009
“Anjaan” (1956) was a movie starring Pradeep Kumar and Vyjyanti Mala. As far as I am concerned, I was not aware of this movie till now, now was I aware of the songs of this movie.
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Jaa main tose naahin boloon
Posted on: September 25, 2009
As far as Bollywood music lovers are concerned, most of them like songs that are “light” in nature, rather than the heavy duty stuff (viz classical music based). But there are classical music based songs that are so nicely created that one loves to listen to such songs.
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Marna teri gali mein
Posted on: September 25, 2009
There are a few people who say that “Shabaab” (1954) was one where Naushad gave his best music. I hope the people who hold this opinion are aware that Naushad was the music director of movies like “Baiju Baawra”, Mughal e Azam” etc as well. There are others who feel that “Baiju Baawra” could be the best creation of Naushad.
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Mera naram karejwaa dol gayaa
Posted on: September 23, 2009
There have been several movies called “Aarzoo”. There was one “Aarzoo” in 1966 where Shankar Jaikishan’s hit music had helped the movie become a big box office success. There was another movie of this name that was released in 1951. This movie had songs of different genre and they too had become popular in their times.
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Raat hai taaron bhari
Posted on: September 23, 2009
When one talks of a movie called “Pardes”, one may be reminded of a recent movie (recent by the standards of this blog) that was released in 1997. But the first movie of this name was released as far back as in 1950.
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