Archive for the ‘Lata song’ Category
Jaidev served as assistants to leading music directors of his era for most of his career. On a few occasions that he got to compose music as an independent music director, he did a very good job. But it takes a lot more than just the ability to compose great music. Jaidev composed some fantastic music, but his name would not sell as a music director, so he repaetedly had to go back to his job as assistants to leading music directors viz S D Burman, Madan Mohan etc.
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“Mera gaon Mera Desh” was the most well known “daaku” movie before “Sholay” came about. In fact, “Sholay” is inspired in parts by “Mera Gaon Mera Desh”.
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Haan to main kya kah raha thha
Posted on: October 21, 2008
I have posted a few songs where readers of this blog commented like- “it is the first time I have heard this song”. This time the shoe is on the other foot. It is one of the readers of this blog, who sent his farmaish for this song, and I was like ” which is this song? I am not even aware of the name of the movie, let alone this song.”
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Akele hain chale aao
Posted on: October 18, 2008
“Raaz” was a Rajesh Khanna movie produced in 1967, before he had become a superstar. In those days, Rafi used to be the playback singer for male lead, and that is indeed the case in this movie.
This song “akele hain chale aao” has been sung by Rafi as well as Lata. Personally, I like the Rafi version more.
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It is one of the iconic songs in Bollywood history, one that I have listened to many a times since childhood. That was in 1970s, and now we are in 2008, and this song was from circa 1950s! has this song aged, or has it become less known after all these decades ? No chance. this song continues to be just a popular as any venerable 52 year old song can expect to be. And this song is in good sprightly health too, one that is unlikely to become forgotten with passage of time. It is a timeless classic, there is no doubt about that.
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Ae dile nadaan aarzoo kya hai
Posted on: October 14, 2008
This movie, a historical movie, was adjusted as boring by janta, and they kept away. Songs of this movie did marginally better, though they were by no means Binaca geetmala chart busting songs.
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Gum hai kisi ke pyaar mein
Posted on: October 13, 2008
This movie “Rampur ka Laxman” is by and large forgotten by now. It had many newcomers in it, including Randhir Kapoor, Rekha, Shatrughan Sinha etc.
Movie may have been forgotten by now, but its songs are not. Though the songs were supposed to be timepass songs, many of them became popular not only during their time, but stayed popular with the passage of time as well. It speaks for the quality of these songs and their creators that we still like to listen to these songs.
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Sun Champa sun Taara
Posted on: October 12, 2008
“Apna Desh” was a movie that appealed to majority of movie goers. It had almost every thing that the movie going janta wanted. In those days, movie going public were undergoing a change of taste. Movies where hero sang sad songs and got bashed by the villains were proving unpopular. People wanted the heroes of 1970s to be more assertive and active than just singing sad songs.
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I was a school kid less than 10 years of age, when Pakeejah was being released, and believe it on not, even us pre teens used to discuss Pakeejah in our class, how this movie was going to be Meena Kumari’s best performance, how this movie was supposed to be a magnum opus, etc. We all knew that this movie was in the making for many years.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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