Archive for the ‘Melancholic song’ Category
Beqasi hadd se jab guzar jaaye
Posted on: January 16, 2012
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
January 16th is the birth anniversary of Omkar Prasad Nayyar (O P Nayyar), one of the most prolific music director of Hindi film industry of the golden era of 50s and 60s. Although O P Nayyar did not receive any formal training in classical music, his folk tune based compositions became a rage among all the sections of the public. That he was one of the top music directors of the golden era of 50s and 60s without Lata Mangeshkar singing a single song for him, speaks volumes about his talent and calibre as a music director. He won Filmfare award for the best music director for Naya Daur (1957).
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Tumhe zindagi ke ujaale mubaarak
Posted on: January 12, 2012
This song is a well known song and I believed that this song was already covered in the blog but I discover that I was wrong. That way, this song belongs to the popular category of the blog, viz “What ! This song was not yet posted !” category. 🙂
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Ae gham e yaar bataa
Posted on: January 9, 2012
- In: Amitabh Bachchan song by Mahendra Kapoor | Amitabh Bachchan songs | Lyrics by Khyati Bhatt | Lyrics contributed by readers | Mahendra Kapoor solo | Mahendra Kapoor songs | Melancholic song | Pathos | Rare song | Songs of 1970s (1971 to 1980) | Songs of 1972 | Yearwise breakup of songs
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Today (9th of January) is the birthday of Mahendra Kapoor. On this occasion, our readers have sent the lyrics of some special songs sung by Mahendra Kapoor. Some of them are well known songs and on the other hand there are some songs that are quite unheard of and rare songs.
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Here is yet another “How come this song was not posted earlier” category of song. this song is from “Aankhen” (1950) which was a Shekhar, Nalini Jaiwant starrer.
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- In: How come this song was not posted earlier | Kishore Kumar solo | Kishore Kumar songs | Lyrics by Khyati Bhatt | Lyrics contributed by readers | Melancholic song | Pathos | philosophical song | Rail song | Rajesh Khanna songs | Rajesh Khanna songs by Kishore Kumar | Remorse | Songs of 1970s (1971 to 1980) | Songs of 1974 | Translation by Sudhir | Translations by readers | Yearwise breakup of songs
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Here is one more of those “What ! This song was not yet covered ..” category of song. I was under the impression that this song had long been discussed but I was wrong. Now I realise that I had discussed this song in another of my (by now defunct) blog while discussing rail songs.
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“Shikaari” (1946) is a movie which had Ashok Kumar, Paro, Veera, Ram Shukul, Leela Mishra etc in it. This song was one of the earliest movies of S D Burman as a music director and this movie had some nice songs in it.
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Today (24th december) is Rafi’s birthday so today we are discussing songs sung by Rafi in this blog.
Here is a song from “Mirza Saahibaan”(1957). I notice that I have discussed as many as six songs from a movie of the same name that was released in 1947 and which starred Trilok Kapoor and Noorjahaan, but only one song from “Mirza Saahibaan” (1957) which starred Trilok Kapoor’s nephew, someone known as Shammi Kapoor 🙂 and Shyama.
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