Archive for the ‘Mukesh songs’ Category
Tu kahe agar
Posted on: April 23, 2009
It has been pointed out to me that I have posted only one song from “Andaz”(1949) whereas this movie was one of the biggest musical blockbusters of all time and a milestone in Bollywood history, musically as well as otherwise.
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“Chhaliya”(1960) was a Raj Kapoor movie and it had Mukesh singing for him as usual. But its music team was not Shailendra and Shankar Jaikishan. Rather, Qamar Jalalabadi had written the songs and Kalyanji Anandji, then in their early years as music directors had got this big break to compose music in this movie. This movie incidentally was the debut movie for director Manmohan Desai as well.
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Hiya jarat rahat din rain
Posted on: April 18, 2009
In most Bollywood movies, characters speak and sing in mainstream Hindi/ Urdu, but there are movies where they speak a bit differently. For instance, all villagers in Bollywood movies speak in a dialect that is supposedly Bhojpuri even if those villagers live in Sikkim !
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Khushi ki wo raat aa gayi
Posted on: April 16, 2009
I have not posted a Mukesh song for quite a while. Here is a Mukesh song from “Dharti Kahe Pukaar ke” (1969).
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Hrishikesh Mukherji watched a Japanese movie in a film festival and he was so influenced by that movie that he made it into a Bollywood movie called “Anand”(1970) which won critical acclaim and was liked by moviegoers as well. In fact, Hrishikesh Mukherji was so enamoured by this theme that he himself remade his own remake into “Mili”.
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Dam bhar jo udhar munh phere
Posted on: April 10, 2009
It is a boat song, chaayageet song, sensuous song, romantic song, all rolled into one.
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Here is the title song of the Raj Kapoor movie “Aashiq” (1962). Like what was the case in his earlier movies viz “Aawaara” and “Chhaliyya”, this song from “Aashiq” serves as an introduction song as well, where the hero inroduces himself as the “Aashiq” and describes in good detail what are the things for which he is the “aashiq” (lover)
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Chhaliya mera naam
Posted on: April 6, 2009
Movies, unlike books are meant for the lowest common denominator of the population, and that includes lots of people who are illiterates and of modest intelligence.That is why Bollywood movies have storylines where even the obvious needed to be stated clearly lest the audience be left in doubt.
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Hamne Tujhko pyaar kiya hai itna
Posted on: April 3, 2009
Here is a typical Mukesh-Raj Kapoor song, where Raj Kapoor lip syncs on a sad Mukesh song.
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Saaranga teri yaad mein
Posted on: April 3, 2009
The first time I listened to this song was in 1975 at about 6-30 pm in the evening in Vividh Bharati.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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