Archive for the ‘Lata solo’ Category
Most movies in which Madan Mohan gave music are obscure movies. But the music in all those movies, irrespective of the quality of such movies (indifferent most of the time) has always been top quality.
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Intazaar aur abhi aur abhi aur abhi
Posted on: July 5, 2009
Meena Kumari debuted in early 1950 and played happy roles most of the time. Many of these movies are lovely family entertainers where she would typically act with Kishore Kumar, Sunil Dutt, Daisy Irani etc.
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Man mein kisi ki preet basaa le
Posted on: July 5, 2009
Bollywood movies have created some big myths which is now believed by everyone. One such myth is that it is possible to sit on a grand piano and play it while singing a song. In reality, playing such a big piano is so difficult that a player playing it can in no way sing as well. But our Bollywood heroes are shown merrily singing away while playing the piano, which incidentally is shown creating music of all other instuments, viz violin, guitar, dholak, flute, etc in addition to its own music.
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I was aware of one song from “Bank Manager” (1959) which I had posted in the past. Now I see that other songs from this movie are also available.
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The word “Chaand” (moon) found frequent use in bollywood songs in the past. It is a surprise that I have not yet thought of a catgory called “Chaand” song though I must have posted dozens of songs with this word in them. I guess I have included these songs in the category of “chaayaageet” songs.
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O mere bairaagi bhanwraa
Posted on: July 2, 2009
“Ishq par zor Nahin” (1970) is a forgotten movie by now. It had Dharmendra and Sadhana in lead roles.
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Aaja aaja mujhe hai tera intzaar
Posted on: June 30, 2009
“Pocketmaar”(1974) was produced by Jaginder Luthra and Ramesh and directed by Ramesh Lakhanpal. The movie had Dharmendra, Saira Bano, Prem Chopra, Mehmood, Nazir Hasain, Asit Sen, Shobha etc in it.
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San sanan jaare o pawan
Posted on: June 29, 2009
Here is a rare song from “Sampoorna Ramayana” (1961). It is sung by Lata and picturised on Anita Guha, who plays Sita in this movie.
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Earlier I had posted a superb song sung by Geeta Dutt on Meena Kumari from the movie “Tamasha” (1952). Here is another forgotten gem from the same movie.
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Haay jiyaa roye roye
Posted on: June 28, 2009
Today seems to be the day when I am stumbling upon forgotten gems. Here is yet another such song that I came across just now. This song could well be known to fans of old songs, but this song is “new” for me.
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