Archive for the ‘Lata song’ Category
Mera naam Rita Christina
Posted on: April 21, 2009
In Bollywood movies, action takes place mostly in India where everyone speaks Hindi/Urdu. But sometimes the action would take place in the Western counttries as well. There, even the Westerners would speak Hindi/Urdu and the western cabaret dancers would sing a cabaret song full of words like “ishq”, “husn” “haseena” etc. I suppose words like “blonde”,”bombshell” etc were not in use in West those days. 😉
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Saanwle salone aaye din bahaar ke
Posted on: April 21, 2009
“Ek Hi Raasta” (1956) was a heart warming movie, going by the songs of this movie. Meena Kumari, who later became known for playing tragedy roles, played a happy character in this movie. Sunil Dutt played her husband and Daisy Irani played their kid. I had earlier posted a nice song from this movie viz “chali gori pi ke milan ko chali”.
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Dil ki baaten dil hi jaane
Posted on: April 20, 2009
Some songs become so popular that we have movie titles of future movies formed out of these songs. For instance, movies like “Aashiq hoon bahaaron ka”. “dilwaale dulhaniya le jayenge” are two movies whose titles were clearly inspired from popular songs of “Aashiq” and “Chor machaaye shor” respectively.
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Bahaaren phir bhi aayengin
Posted on: April 20, 2009
It is not uncommon to have great songs coming out of movies whose names are not known to many people.
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Do ghadi wo jo paas aa baithe
Posted on: April 19, 2009
In 1950s, there used to be movies named after important landmarks viz “Laal Quila’,”Chandni Chowk”etc. In this series, there was one movie called “Gateway of India” (1957).
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I recall having read about this song in the past, and perhaps I may have listened to this song in the past too, without paying much attention. But this time I listened to it carefully , and I was very impressed.
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Paas nahin aana bhool nahin jaana
Posted on: April 18, 2009
It is generally belived that commercial (mainstream) bollywood movies were make belive ones whereas “art” movies depicted reality. Not always.
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Haay re wo din kyun
Posted on: April 18, 2009
Pt Ravishankar, the renowned sitarist had worked in Bollywood in 1950s and 1960s, before he went West and made his mark in his field. In Bollywood, Ravishankar not only worked as an instrumentalist, he in fact acted as music director in a few Bollywood movies as well.
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Roothaa hai to manaa lengen
Posted on: April 17, 2009
This song “roothaa hai to manaa lenge” was quite popular on its days. I loved listening to this song without knowing much about this song except the name of the singer.
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Tera mera saath rahe
Posted on: April 17, 2009
There were a few music directors who did well for themselves without using the leading playback singers of the day in their songs.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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