Archive for the ‘lullaby’ Category
Main gaaun tu chup ho jaa
Posted on: April 8, 2011
Though I am familiar with V Shantaram’s movie “Do Aankhen Baarah Haath” (1957), I have not watched this movie and I am not aware of all its songs, except the better known songs. I was not aware of this song.
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Mere ghar aayi ek nanhi pari
Posted on: March 29, 2011
This article is written by Lalitha, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie songs and a regular visitor and contributor to this blog.
Loris, or lullabies, have always had a special place in Indian life, and many of these are sung by mothers and grandmothers as they rock the baby to sleep in the old fashioned cradle formed by hanging a long piece of cloth from a hook in the ceiling or in a regular cradle. Some loris have also been sung by men, generally widowers, and these tend to be melancholy ones, but there are some exceptions. In Carnatic music, the raga Neelambari is the one used to induce sleep and most lullabies in the South are sung in this raga.
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I have discussed some well known lullabies from Hindi movies in these pages. Most of such lullabies (or lori as they are called in Hindi) were created in 1950s and 1960s.
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Laadley so jaa
Posted on: January 2, 2011
Most movies in which Madan Mohan composed movies ended up as box office disasters. Many of these movies are today remembered mainly for their music rather than for anything else. And what timeless music these movies had !
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Aayi aayi raat suhaani
Posted on: September 18, 2010
Here is a delightful song that has two versions. In the first version, Kamini Kaushal, who finds a young girl, who is separated from her mother, and she calms her nerves by singing this song which acts as a lullaby to the girl.
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In this blog, I have posted several genre of songs. Not every song is everyone’s cup of tea. There are some genre of songs that can only be appreciated by very few people with tastes acquired after decades.
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I have posted several Lori (Lullaby) songs in this blog and I keep discovering new ones regularly. Here is another “new” lullaby that I was previously unaware of.
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So jaa mere pyaare so jaa
Posted on: December 3, 2009
“Lori” (Lullaby) is a much loved category of song. Most popular lories of Bollywood movies were created in 1950s and 1960s.
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When you need to look for iconic songs on any topic, you should look for songs composed by Ravi. I have noticed that majority of iconic Bollywood songs, whatever be their topics, have been composed by Ravi.
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Chaand so gayaa taare so gaye
Posted on: August 21, 2009
Here is a song from a by now forgotten movie called “Raahi” (1953). Dev Anand and Achala Sachdev were the lead actors in this movie.
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