Archive for the ‘Mukesh solo’ Category
Jaane kahaan gaye wo din
Posted on: December 2, 2008
“Mera Naam Joker” was a labour of love for Raj Kapoor and he had made this movie with great hopes and expectations. Unfortunately, the story was ahead of its times and the Indian movie watchers were not ready for such movies in 1970. The movie flopped and Raj Kapoor suffered great losses as a result.
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This song is a forgotten gem from 1970s. I call it a gem on several counts.
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tan man dhan sab hai tera
Posted on: November 26, 2008
“Tan man dhan sab hai tera” was a song that I heard many a times in 1970s, without getting to know any details about this song. I could make out that the singer was Mukesh, but that is all I knew about this song.
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Chal ri sajni ab kya soche
Posted on: November 24, 2008
I have posted two songs from “Bambai ka Babu” in this blog, and readers will agree that both of them were great songs. But as far as Binaca geetmala of 1960 was concerned, the most popular song from this movie was yet another song viz ” Chal ri sajni ab kya soche”.
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I have listened to this song many a times, and I liked this song very much. Not only I knew that this song was sung by Mukesh, I was also aware that the movie was called “Raaste ka patthar”.
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Hum chhod chale hain mehfil ko
Posted on: November 16, 2008
The hero Joy Mukherjee is leaving his home for ever, and certainly there has got to be some major reason behind this drastic step. His wife appears suitably chastened, repentent, etc, but that is too little too late,the decision has been taken and there is no going back.
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Singer is Mukesh, lyricist is Shailendra and composers are Shankar Jaikishan. One may be forgiven to think that it must be a song picturised on Raj Kapoor. But no, this is a song from “Hariyali aur Raasta”, a movie featuring Manoj Kumar.
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Socha tha pyaar hum na karenge
Posted on: October 31, 2008
Listening to this Mukesh song all these years without any additional information, I thought that this song had all the attributes of a Raj kapoor song. It was sung by Mukesh, lyrics looked Shailendra like and music appeared Shankar Jaikishan like, and I was sure that the song was picturised on Raj Kapoor.
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Bahaaron ne mera chaman loot kar
Posted on: October 29, 2008
I have already posted one memorable nostalgic song from this movie sung by Mukesh and picturised on Dharmendra.
This movie was in fact full of memorable songs. Quite a few of such songs were sung by Mukesh for Dharmendra. Here is another such memorable song.
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Barkha rani zara jam ke barso
Posted on: October 24, 2008
There are different songs for different times and moods. When it is time for rains, it is time for love to blossom in Bollywood. That way, I have always felt that the Valentine day (and season) in Bollywood is not in the spring season, but in the rainy season.
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