Archive for the ‘Mahendra Kapoor songs’ Category
Ham to jhuk kar salaam karte hain
Posted on: July 14, 2010
When “Fakeera” (1976) was released, I pooh poohed it as a B grade movie. Even the reviews of this movie in magazines seemed to bear me out that the movie was no great shakes.
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“Hamraaz” (1968) was a suspense movie though one would not realise that from the songs. The movie had Sunil Dutt and Vimmi in lead roles, with Raj Kumar and others for company.
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Ae jaane chaman tera gora badan
Posted on: April 25, 2010
It is not uncommon for me to enjoy songs whose details are not known to me and most other people. These well known songs are often from movies that few people know about.
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“Anpadh” (1962) is mainly known for its two ghazals that are regarded as among the finesh ghazals of all times. But this movie had other songs as well, and these other songs were great songs on their own.
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I have posted a song from “Adventures of Robinhood” (1965) in the past. This movie was a C grade movie, going by the cast of the movie.
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“Gumraah” (1963) had some very nice songs in it. Here is one song from this movie.
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Zara dekhiye meri saadgi
Posted on: December 9, 2009
Dara Singh, who was a legend among Indians of 1960s and 1970s became a fairly well known actor in Bollywood movies too. Most of his movies were C grade stuff, scoffed at by the “purists”, but his movies must have been profitable, considering that movies featuring Dara Singh continued to get produced. IN fact, Dara Singh himself produced many of his own movies.
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“Badaltey Rishtey” (1978) was released to a lukewarm response and the movie did not do well at the box office. Of course there is no correlation between a movie’s box office performance and its production values. The story of this movie was different from the usual “dhishum dhishum” stuff of those days. From what one can see from the title of this movie and from the songs, this movie was a story on a love triangle or something similar where Reena Roy have two suitors competing for her.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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