Archive for the ‘love spurned’ Category
Tera kaam hai jalna parwaane
Posted on: February 9, 2009
Name of the movie (Paapi) does not ring a bell and the music director ( S Mohinder) is just as unknown, but the song is wonderful. Written by Rajinder Krishan, the lyrics are so nice to go through. The song is sung by Rafi and picturised on Raj Kapoor.
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Daaman mein daagh lagaa baithe
Posted on: February 6, 2009
“Dhool ka Phool” (1959) was a moving tale about an unwed mother and her child. Mala Sinha falls in love with Rajendra Kumar and they have a pre marital fling,assured in the knowledge that they would get married to each other. But then Rajendra Kumar ditches her and gets married to a girl of his parents’ choice. And Mala Sinha, as can be expected, is pregnant.
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Kishore Kumar is mainly known for singing happy, bubbly kinds of songs but he was an allrounder.
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Kishore Kumar worked with Laxmikant Pyarelal for the first time in 1965 in a movie called “Hum Sab Ustaad Hain”. The movie itself is no longer remembered by anyone, but what music this movie had !
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Hazaar raahein mudke dekhin
Posted on: December 14, 2008
After Rajesh Khanna lost his crown as the Superstar of Bollywood, he spared no efforts to regain it. He would give his best in movies after movies, but the movies would fail at the box office and even the critics would be umimpressed. Then a time came when critics began to acknowledge Rajesh Khanna’s performances, but the box office remained unrelenting.
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There are songs that I heard three decades ago, liked them and then forgot all about them. I have been re-discovering quite a few such songs now a days, as I keep mentioning in my posts.
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The movie “Pavitra Paapi” is by and large forgotten. The fact that this movie had the lyrics and music by Prem Dhawan is also not known to many. But this forgotten movie has a song that is extremely well known.
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Usha Khanna, the sole female music director in Bollywood movies in the last 50 years remained confined to lesser movies for most of her career. But every once in a while, she tended to rise above the mediocrity of the movies she gave music in.
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The dashing Joy Mukherji, a Shammi Kapoor clone ( I do not call him poor man’s Shammi Kapoor, that title is reserved for Vishwajeet) sings a piano song in his home production “Humsaaya”. The movie itself was a failure, but this song survived and was the saving grace for this disaster of a movie.
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Guide had some awesome songs. Not only did they become very popular among public, even creators of bollywood music ( singers, lyricists, music directors) voted Guide as the biggest musical blockbuster bollywood movie, with as many as 3 songs of this movie being adjusted among the top 20 songs of all time. ( Source – Outlook magazine january 2006 issue)
This particular song from Guide is a very difficult song to sing, but Lata had sung it outstandingly. As I have mentioned quite a few times in this blog, Lata was at the peak of her singing prowess in 1960s, and this song is yet another example of that assertion.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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