Archive for the ‘Lata song’ Category
Most Hindi movie songs are traditional songs in the sense that they deal with certain human sentiments (love, happiness, sadness etc). Then there are “timepass” songs that are there for some light hearted fun.
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Gentleman gentleman gentleman
Posted on: December 11, 2010
On the occasion of Dilip Kumar’s birthday (11th december), I am posting some songs picturised on Dilip Kumar. Here is an interesting fun song from “Gopi” (1970).
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Dilip Kumar, whose birthday falls on 11th December, was married to Saira Bano in 1966. At that time, he at the age of 44, was exactly twice the age of Saira Bano.
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Laagi naahin chhoote raamaa
Posted on: December 11, 2010
December 11 is the birthday of Dilip Kumar. I take this opportunity to discuss a few songs picturised on Dilip Kumar.
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Chhoom chhanananan paayal boli
Posted on: December 10, 2010
“Ghar Ghar Mein Deewaali” (1955) by all indication was a B grade movie, going by the star cast which had Shyama, Sajjan, Manorama, Gajanan Jagirdar etc in lead roles. Little is known about this movie, and its prints are apparently not available.
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Madan Mohan made his debut as a music director in 1950. In his debut movie “Aankhen” (1950), he used many singers, but curiously enough, Lata was not among them. From his next movie, Lata became an important singer for him.
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Aayi bahaar jiyaa dole moraa
Posted on: December 10, 2010
I was aware of “Aarzoo” (1965) which was a musical blockbuster. Then I became aware of another movie of this name that came in 1950 and I found the songs of this movie “boring”. In fact, that is what happened with me for songs of movies with similar names.Being a youngster growing in 1970s, I liked music of “Andaaz”(1971),”Adalat” (1976) , “Parvarish”(1977) and disliked music of older movies with same name and wondered why older generation created such “boring” music.
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Ab kaun sahaaraa hai
Posted on: December 10, 2010
“Ziddi” (1948) is a movie with which Kishore Kumar began his career as a playback singer. Another youngster,viz Prem Dhawan, too began his career as a lyricist with this movie.
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“Satyakaam” (1969), which was a critically acclaimed movie that failed at the box office, had some nice songs in it which have sadly been forgotten with time. And there are people like me who never heard the songs of this movie, despite living though that era.
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Everyone is aware that 1957 saw the movie “Mother India” in which Nargis played the central character. Few people know that the same year also saw the release of another movie called “Miss India”. And guess who played the central character in this movie ? It was none other than Nargis herself !
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