Archive for the ‘Lata solo’ Category
Naa naa naa barso baadal
Posted on: August 28, 2009
Small time Bollywood movie producers tended to make movies of historical / mythologicals subjects in 1950s and 1960s. Most of these movies were C grade movies and the mainstream movie watchers kept away from them.
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O pawan veg se udne waale ghode
Posted on: August 27, 2009
I had last heard this song over three decades ago. I was looking for this song for quite some time. I was finally able to locate this elusive song yesterday.
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“Anarkali” (1953) is one of the biggest musical blockbusters of all time. The songs of this movie have in fact gone on to become timeless classics.
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Iss paar saajan uss paar dhaaren
Posted on: August 26, 2009
I may have heard this song in the past but only in passing. This time I heard it attentively, and found out about its details. I came to know that this song was from “Chori Chori” (1956). Now I wonder just how many great songs were there in “Chori Chori” (1956).
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Here is a lovely song from “Nausherwaan e Adil”(1957).
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Kahe jhoom jhoom raat ye suhaani
Posted on: August 23, 2009
“Love Marriage” (1959) was a movie starring Dev Anand and Mala Sinha. I have no idea how the movie fared at the box office, but the music of the movie is absolutely top class.
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Chup chup chup hone laga kuchh
Posted on: August 23, 2009
“Insaaniyat”(1955) was a movie that had both Dilip Kumar and Dev Anand in it for the first and last time. This mega movie of 1955 also had wonderful music by C Ramchandra.
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“Niraala”(1950) is a movie with Dev Anand and Madhubala, and the story appears an adorable sugar coated love story. I judge a movie by its songs and the songs of this movie are absolutely lovely.
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“Paakeezah” (1971) which was the last movie of Meena Kumari was full of some beautiful songs. I as a pre teen disliked those retro songs at that time, but as time has passed, I find myself warming up to these songs. Indeed, these songs have grown sweeter and more melodious with passage of time.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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