Archive for the ‘Lata solo’ Category
Ajnabi kaun ho tum
Posted on: February 18, 2009
“Sweekar Kiya maine” (1983) is a movie that few people remember today. it was a small budget movie with Vinod Mehra and Shabana Azmi in lead roles. This was a good off beat movie, I am sure which the mainstream audience the kinds which the mainstream audience tended to avoid watching.
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Mere tumhaare beech mein
Posted on: February 17, 2009
This Lata song from “Jhuk Gaya Aasmaan” is a new song for me, in the sense that I have never heard this song till today.
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Mere paas aao nazar to milaao
Posted on: February 17, 2009
“Sangharsh” was a movie as “recent” as 1968 when Rajesh Khanna had already taken over Bollywood as a superstar. So I am surprised that oldtimers like Dilip Kumar and Vyjyanti Mala were still playing lead roles in 1968.
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Do hanso ka joda bichad gayo re
Posted on: February 17, 2009
I was looking for this song for quite some time, but I finally managed to come across this song only yesterday.
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Daga daga wai wai
Posted on: February 16, 2009
I have posted a few songs from 1950s and 1960s which featured Kumkum. She never made it to the top, but that does not mean that she was not good. It is just that she was confined to C grade movies most of the time, just as Chitragupta found himself confined to composing music for C grade movies.
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Tu kitni acchi hai
Posted on: February 14, 2009
There are a few lovely songs eulogising Maa (mother) in Bollywood movies. The most memorable of these songs were composed in 1960s.
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Aate jaate pahloo me aaye koyi
Posted on: February 12, 2009
It is so pleasant to watch Meena Kumari singing a happy song. But then this song is from “Yahudi”, a 1958 movie and Meena Kumari had yet to start playing those melancholic roles that she later became associated with.
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Milo na tum to ham ghabraayen
Posted on: February 11, 2009
Like Rafi-Shammi Kapoor songs and Mukesh-Raj Kapoor songs,there used to be another great combination in the past, and that was Lata-Madan Mohan songs. These two have created many wonderful songs during their association of about 24 years.
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Rangeela re
Posted on: February 10, 2009
I have posted songs of many categories in this blog. One of these categories is called drunkard songs. This song is a drunkard song, but with a difference. Here , it is a lady that gets drunk and then she sings this song. It is nice to see that women’s lib had taken place in drunkard songs as early as 1967.
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Here is a very cute song from a movie called “Harishchandra Taramati” (1963).
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