Archive for the ‘Lata song’ Category
Party songs, where a female singer sings and dances became standard fares in mainstream Hindi movies of 1950s.
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I have noticed that older Hindi movies (early 1950s and before) were far more liberal and open minded than the movies that followed. For instance, many scenes that began to be looked down upon as against Indian culture (viz kissing, swimming etc) were quite common in earlier movies. Not just that, hypocritical stands like heroines refusing to do swimming scenes is a recent phenomenon of 1970s because it was considered “exposing” their bodies. The fact that the heroines who took such stand did not have exposable may also have influenced their stand.
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Koi bataa de dil hai kahaan
Posted on: November 11, 2010
I have listened to this song many a times in my ignorant mode. By that I mean that I was totally ignorant about the details of the song, except the obvious details about the singers.
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Lagan tose laagi balmaa
Posted on: November 11, 2010
“Dekh Kabeeraa Royaa” (1957) has several nice songs in it. So far I have discussed three very well known songs (iconic songs) from this movie.
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Laut gayaa gham ka zamaanaa
Posted on: November 10, 2010
Most songs discussed in this blog are songs that are well known. Then there are songs that are lessser known. On the other end of the spectrum, there are songs which are so rare that not too many people are aware of their existence.
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“Sharmilee” (1971) was one of those movies that I lived a lot. This movie and its songs came about at a time when Kishore Kumar and R D Burman had taken the Hindi movie music world by storm. I also happened to be at an impressionable age (8-12 year age group) which meant that I was highly impressed and influenced by the music of that time. Forget me, even the so called grown ups turned out to be just as impressionable as me, as far as liking Kishore Kumar-R D Burman brand of music was concerned.
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Initially I thought that this movie “Bhabhi” (1957) only had one great song, viz. Chal ud ja re panchchi but with time I realised that this movie was full of memorable songs in it. By now I have discussed as many as five songs from “Bhabhi” (1957) in this blog.
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I am aware of movies called “Aag” and “Aah” which were produced in late 1940s and early 1950s/ respectively. Another movie of a similar sounding title, viz “Aas” was also produced in the same era. This movie had Shekhar and Kamini Kaushal in it.
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Mujhe tum mil gaye hamdam
Posted on: November 4, 2010
“Love in Tokyo”(1966) is the most Shammi Kapoorish of all movies not involving the great man himself. “Love in Tokyo” (1966) has Joy Mukherji instead and he does a great job here as a Shammi Kapoor clone.
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Ae dilrubaa nazren milaa
Posted on: November 2, 2010
In my bid to post all Sajjad Hussain songs, here is a song from “Rustam Sohrab” (1963) which is popularly (but incorrectly) considerded as the last movie of Sajjad Hussain as music director.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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