Archive for the ‘Melancholic song’ Category
There may be more Hindi movies called “Laila Majnu” than one can count, but the two main movies of this title that I can readily recall are the ones that came in 1953 and 1976. The 1953 movie had Nutan and Shammi Kapoor playing the legendary lovers while the same roles wre enacted by Ranjeeta and Shammi Kapoor’s nephew Rishi Kapoor , respectively.
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Zindagi kyaa hai gham ka dariya hai
Posted on: July 21, 2011
“Pyaar Kiya To Darna Kyaa” (1963) is a movie starring Shammi Kapoor and B Saroja Devi. This movie apparently did not do well at the box office.
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Here is a melancholic song from “Rail Ka Dibba” (1953). This song is sung by Shamshad Begam. Shakeel Badayuni is the lyicist and music is composed by Ghulam Mohammad.
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“Bholi”(1949) is an obsure movie by now. This movie had actors like Prem Adeeb,Geeta Bali, Shashikala, Jeewan, Gope,Gulab etc. in it.
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Kyun ae dil e deewaanaa
Posted on: July 13, 2011
The title of the movie “Bikhhre Moti” (1951) gives enough statutory warning that this movie is a melancholic movie with melancholic songs. Indeed, this movie which had Jayant, Jeevan, Kamini Kaushal, Neelam, Nigar Sultana, Ranjana etc in it have just that kind of songs in it.
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Aansoo thhi meri zindagi
Posted on: July 8, 2011
“Bikhhre Moti” (1951) is a movie I have little idea about. But I have gathered that this movie had actors like Jeevan, Neelam, Kamini Kaushal, Nigar, Jayant, Ranjana, Sherry etc in it. From the movie title, the movie appears to be a tear jerker movie.
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In Hindi movies, there used to be a case where a character would decide to leave his/her family/neighbours/friends for ever, not knowing where he/she would go. I call such songs as “chal ud ja re panchhi” song, in honour of the iconic song from “Bhaabhi” (1957) that depicted this scenario.
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“Meena Baazaar” (1950) is a movie starring actors like Nargis, Shyam, Kuldip Kaur, Om Prakash, Gope, Sapru, Kanhaiyalal ,Bhudo Advani etc.
I have discussed three songs from this movie in the past.
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I keep discovering musical gems almost on a daily basis. and no, I do not have to dig deep for them. I come across them inadvertently while casually playing a few songs on youtube.
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