Archive for the ‘Lata solo’ Category
I have posted a few songs from “Talaash” (1969) already and I mentioned that Lata was perhaps at her best while singing the songs of this movie.
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Laage naa moraa jiyaa
Posted on: May 13, 2009
Asha Parekh, who acted as a child artist for several years, first acted as a grown up in Aasha ( 1957), though she was not credited there. She then acted in Dil Deke Dekho, Ham Hindustani and Ghooghat.
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“Chaandni” (1989) was a movie full of classy songs. And that was no mean achievement at a time when the quality of music in Bollywood movie music had hit rock bottom.
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Tere bina jiyaa jaaye naa
Posted on: May 11, 2009
Gulzar and R D Burman came together for the first time in “Parichay” (1972) and even since, they worked together in many movies till “Masoom” (1983) and gave us some memorable songs. One such movie, where they collaborated together was “Ghar” (1978).
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“Aankhen” appears to be a very popular title for a Bollywood movie. The debut movie of Madan Mohan was called “Aanken” and in the last one decade or so, we have had two movies by this name- one starring Govinda and another one starring Amitabh Bachchan.
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Mori paayal geet sunaaye
Posted on: May 10, 2009
Many of the songs that I have posted in this blogs are songs about which I had no knowledge. It is my more knowledgeable readers who gave me farmaish for these songs. And I located the links for these songs and posted them here.
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Paayal ki jhankaar raste raste
Posted on: May 8, 2009
Here is a spectacular song from “Mere Lal”. It is the song that has Laxmikant Pyarelal’s stamp all over it. It was sung by Lata and the song was written by Majrooh Sultanpuri.
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Meri patli kamar lambe baal re
Posted on: May 7, 2009
Lata Mangeshkar was very fond of a folk song that belonged to the village of her grandmother. In 1950s, she asked C Ramchandra to create a song based on this folk song and C Ramchandra created a superb dance song in “Aasha” (1957) that was picturised on Vyjyanti Mala. This song, which was written by Rajinder Krishan was “tu na aaya aur hone lagi shaam re”.
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Pawan deewaani
Posted on: May 6, 2009
I had commented in another song that Bollywood heroes, whatever be their professions in these movies, would act as if their profession was singing songs. I cited Dilip Kumar as an example.
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Balmaa anaadi mangaa de ghodaa gaadi
Posted on: May 5, 2009
The combination of Lata and Madan Mohan is known for serious songs, viz ghazals etc. But that is just part of the picture. They have sung some fun songs as well.
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