Archive for the ‘Mukesh songs’ Category
Though this song is from “Aag” (1948), the music of this song, especially the beginning of the song sounded quite modern to me.
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Oh re taal mile nadi ke jal se
Posted on: July 22, 2009
“Anokhi Raat” (1968) was the last movie in which Roshan composed music. He died before the movie was released and the remaining work of music direction was taken up by his assistant.
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Paani re paani tera rang kaisaa
Posted on: July 21, 2009
Manoj Kumar was one producer who knew the pulse of his target audience very well. And he made movies targetted at them.
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Jaane na nazar pahchaane jigar
Posted on: July 21, 2009
A boy and a girl, strangers to each other, who get wet in the rain, and are forced to stay the night together- this stuff leads to great romantic possibilities in Bollywood movies. It also leads to the possibilities of songs.
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Chal akelaa chal akelaa chal akelaa
Posted on: July 20, 2009
“Sambandh”(1969) is not a movie that too many people know much about. Very few people had watched this movie when it was released and the movie flopped.
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Dheere dheere bol koi sun naa le
Posted on: July 18, 2009
Here is a song from “Gora aur Kaala” (1972). It was a popular song during its time.
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Aa ab laut chalen
Posted on: July 18, 2009
I have seen the movie “Jis Desh me Ganga bahti hai”(1960) but I was not paying attention and as such I do not remember much about this movie. So I had no information about the background of this song from this movie. Now I am told that this movie was about the dacoits of Chambal valley laying their arms and joining the mainstream of society. This song in fact exhorts them to come back to the society.
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Sataa le ae jahaan
Posted on: July 17, 2009
Mukesh singing for Rajendra Kumar is not as common as Rafi singing for him. However, “Sasural” was one movie where Mukesh had given playback for Rajendra Kumar.
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Rajendra Kumar, known for copying Dilip Kumar’s mannerisms, was known as Jubilee Kumar, because almost all his movies tended to be jubilee hits. Those days,movies completing 25 weeks were called silver jubilee hits and movies completing 50 weeks were called golden jubilee hits. Almost every Rajendra Kumar movie was a jubilee hit.
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S D Burman was a very senior music director. He started giving music in Bollywood movies as early as 1940s itself.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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