Archive for the ‘Lata song’ Category
Saari saari raat teri yaad sataaye
Posted on: July 7, 2009
I thought I had this song in my blog. But when I checked up, I realised that I had yet to post this song.
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This song was almost edited out of the movie by its producer Vijay Bhatt who thought that this song, showing Hindu festival of Janmashtami had no place in this movie, but he was convinced by others that Akbar’s wife Jodhabai was a Hindu and so showing this song made sense.
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Chhun chhun chhun baaje paayal
Posted on: July 6, 2009
“Ham Log” reminds most people of the first mega serial on Indian TV that was telecast on state run Doordarshan in mid 1980s. But there was a movie of this name as way back as 1951.
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Most movies in which Madan Mohan gave music are obscure movies. But the music in all those movies, irrespective of the quality of such movies (indifferent most of the time) has always been top quality.
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Intazaar aur abhi aur abhi aur abhi
Posted on: July 5, 2009
Meena Kumari debuted in early 1950 and played happy roles most of the time. Many of these movies are lovely family entertainers where she would typically act with Kishore Kumar, Sunil Dutt, Daisy Irani etc.
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Door bahut aabaadi se
Posted on: July 5, 2009
“Jhoola” (1962) was a movie about which I had little idea. I thought that movies with this kind of title must be a movie of early 1950s when we had movies of similar sounding titles ( “Jhamela”, “Jhaanjhar” etc).
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Man mein kisi ki preet basaa le
Posted on: July 5, 2009
Bollywood movies have created some big myths which is now believed by everyone. One such myth is that it is possible to sit on a grand piano and play it while singing a song. In reality, playing such a big piano is so difficult that a player playing it can in no way sing as well. But our Bollywood heroes are shown merrily singing away while playing the piano, which incidentally is shown creating music of all other instuments, viz violin, guitar, dholak, flute, etc in addition to its own music.
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I was aware of one song from “Bank Manager” (1959) which I had posted in the past. Now I see that other songs from this movie are also available.
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The word “Chaand” (moon) found frequent use in bollywood songs in the past. It is a surprise that I have not yet thought of a catgory called “Chaand” song though I must have posted dozens of songs with this word in them. I guess I have included these songs in the category of “chaayaageet” songs.
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I have listened to this song many a times and I knew that this song was from a Rajesh Khanna movie. But that is all I knew.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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