Archive for the ‘lullaby’ Category
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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Ae meri aankhon ke pahle sapne
Posted on: July 2, 2009
Once I had mentioned that Bollywood lullabies were mostly sung by female singers and there were hardly any lullabies sung by male singers.
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Raat hai suhaani o nindiyaa raani
Posted on: June 24, 2009
Just like there are hit pairs of hero and heroine in movies, there used to be a hit pair of mother and child in 1950s. Meena Kumari would play mother of Daisy Irani in several movies.
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While posting lullaby songs, once I had commented that these lullabies are mostly sung by female singers and lullabies sung by male singers are very rare.
Here is a rare lullaby song, in the sense that it is sung by a male singer.
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