Archive for the ‘Lata song’ Category
This is a song which very much contains the name of its movie as well. Yes, “aaja tujhko pukaare mere geet” is a song from “Geet”. And as iconic songs go, this song is as iconic as they come.
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Aap huye mere balam
Posted on: February 13, 2009
Kishore Kumar was a versatile artist. There was little he had not done in movies. He has been producer, director, actor, singer, lyricist, music director etc etc. in movies. Though most commonly, he would play actor cum singer in many movies of 1950s and 1960s, before he turned a full time playback singer in late 1960s.
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Aa mere hamjoli aa
Posted on: February 12, 2009
“Jeene Ki raah” had some very popular songs sung by Rafi. I have already posted one song from this movie.
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Dafli waale dafli bajaa
Posted on: February 12, 2009
Jaya Prada made her Bollywood debut with “Sargam” (1979) opposite Rishi Kapoor. In this movie, she played a dumb woman. But you would not know that, seeing that she sings many great songs in this movie.
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O shama mujhe phoonk de
Posted on: February 12, 2009
Here is a typical Raj Kapoor song. Typical Raj Kapoor song meant it was sung by Mukesh, lyricist was Shailendra and the music was composed by Shankar Jaikishan.
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Aate jaate pahloo me aaye koyi
Posted on: February 12, 2009
It is so pleasant to watch Meena Kumari singing a happy song. But then this song is from “Yahudi”, a 1958 movie and Meena Kumari had yet to start playing those melancholic roles that she later became associated with.
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“Mehboob ki Mehandi” was a Rajesh Khanna movie of 1971. It had lyrics by Anand Bakshi and music by Laxmikant Pyarelal. So one can guess that this movie must have some lilting music. And indeed that is how it was.
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Man ki been matwaari baaje
Posted on: February 11, 2009
When I watched this song, the first thing that occured to me was that this scene, if not the entire movie, was definitely inspired from the Sanskrit novel called “Rajtarangini” written by the famous Sanskrit scholar Bilhan. In that story, a music tutor is employed to teach music to the princess of a state. Afraid that the two may feel attracted to each other if they come face to face, the two are separated from each other by a curtain. The princess is told that the music tutor is ugly and the music totor is told that the princess is blind.
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Mere dil mein hai ik baat
Posted on: February 11, 2009
Few people have heard of this movie called “Post Ofice Box 999”.It had Sunil Dutt and Shakila in lead roles.
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Milo na tum to ham ghabraayen
Posted on: February 11, 2009
Like Rafi-Shammi Kapoor songs and Mukesh-Raj Kapoor songs,there used to be another great combination in the past, and that was Lata-Madan Mohan songs. These two have created many wonderful songs during their association of about 24 years.
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