Archive for the ‘Lata song’ Category
“Raag Rang” (1952) is a movie that was a home production of Geeta Bali. This movie had Geeta Bali and her sister Sudha Bali acting in it and their brother Digvijay Bali was the producer. Ashok Kumar was the hero of the movie.
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Abhi to main jawaan hoon
Posted on: May 19, 2010
“Abhi to main jawaan hoon” is a song that is mainly associated with Malika Pukhraj. But a song with similar lyrics was there in “Afsaanaa” (1951) as well and there it was sung by Lata.
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Bollywood movies of the past were like the Indian familiies of the past as far as keeping a limit on their songs/ children were concerned.
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It is my belief that Roshan should be called the king of filmi qawwalis the way Madan Mohan is described as the king of Ghazals. Many of the qawwaalis that Roshan has created in movies have gone on to become immortal.
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In this blog I have posted songs that fall into various categories. These days I am finding that there are some songs of a certain (artificial) category namely “songs that I thought were already posted but I was wrong”.
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Ruke ruke se qadam
Posted on: May 13, 2010
I thought that I had posted most songs of “Mausam” here. When I checked up yesterday, I was surprised to find that I had only posted one song from this movie.
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Apne sainyya se nainaa ladaaibe
Posted on: May 12, 2010
For many movie watchers, Meena Kumari and Raj Kumar epitomise tragedy roles. And if they are there together in a movie, then one may be justified in fearing the worst, viz ‘Kaajal” (1965). But fortunately, they did not start their careers with such roles, and they can be seen playing happier roles even together. “Ardhaangini” (1958) is one such movie where they were together playing happier roles.
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Dil ki shikaayat nazar ke shikwe
Posted on: May 10, 2010
I am fond of saying that Bollywood movies have one great “Chitthi” (letter) song every decade, beginning from 1960s. Thus we had Likhe jo khat tujhe(Kanyadaan)(1968) in 1960s, Daakiya daak laaya(Palkon ki chhaon mein)(1977) (Palkon Ki Chhaaon Mein” in 1970s, “Chitthi aayi hai aayi hai” (Naam) in 1980s and Sandese aate hain(Border)(1997) (Border) in 1990s. All these songs are already posted in this blog.
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Pyaar bhari ye ghataayen
Posted on: May 9, 2010
Manna Dey is not a singer who got as many singing assignments as the other leading playback singers. Despite that, the list of Manna Dey’s songs makes for very impressive reading.
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In Bollywood movies, it is just the hero who gets drunk. Ladies getting drunk is not considered a proper thing. So it comes as a big surprise to find both of them drunk and singing this drunkard song.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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