Archive for the ‘Mahendra Kapoor songs’ Category
Here is a superb song from “Bahaarein phir bhi aayengi” (1966).
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I was not aware of this song till now. Reading the lyrics, I thought that it must be the “Gora aur Kaala” duet song, but it is a different song and it is from “Ram aur Shyam” (1967).
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Kaun ho tum kaun ho
Posted on: June 29, 2009
This song from “Stree” (1961) comes as a whiff of fresh air to me. It is so refreshing to see a Bollywood song from a lyricist who knew the topics he was writing about. Bharat Vyas, who mostly wrote songs in mythological movies, knew his mythology well. Moreover, he was one of the few lyricists at that time (Pradeep being the other) who used textbook Hindi words in their lyrics.
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Do akalmand huye fikrmand
Posted on: June 25, 2009
Here is a fun song from a lesser known movie called “Akalmand”(1966). This was a movie produced by I S Johar, and as was his wont his movie used to have a light hearted look at things. So in this movie he ties up with Kishore Kumar.
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Tu husn hai main ishq hoon
Posted on: June 24, 2009
The songs of “Hamraaz” (1968) were all over the place in 1968. This movie was Mahendra Kapoor’s finest hour under the sun as a playback singer.
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Jiske sapne hamen roz aate rahe
Posted on: June 20, 2009
I have listened to this song many a times, and I liked this song, but all these days I had no idea which movie this song was from.
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O zaraa bachke o baliye bachke
Posted on: June 9, 2009
Listening to this song, one may think that it is an O P Nayyar composition. It has the typical O P Nayyar kind of music and it is sung by Mahendra Kapoor and Asha Bhonsle.
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Stella O Stella
Posted on: June 2, 2009
“A” grade movies were not the only movies that get made in Bollywood. There are many B grade, C grade…Z grade movies which also got made. Most of these movies failed to register in the radar of mainsteam audience.
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“Zindagi aur Maut” (1965) is not a movie I am familiar with. But today I stumbled upon a song from this movie which is regarded quite highly by music lovers.
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