Archive for the ‘Multiple version song’ Category
Aa laut ke aaja mere meet
Posted on: February 10, 2009
“Rani Roopmati” was a C grade movie, and songs from such movies typically failed to catch the ears of the mainstream listeners. But there were some exceptions.
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Jhilmil sitaaron ka aangan hoga
Posted on: February 5, 2009
I have listened to this song many a times during my childhood. I had no idea which movie this song was from.
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Saawan ke maheene mein
Posted on: February 4, 2009
Like most people, I too thought that “Sharaabi” was a movie of 1984 with Amiabh Bachchan and Jaya Prada in it and with the music of Bappi Lahiri.
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I have talked about Rafi singing brilliant songs for Shammi Kapoor. This led to many imitators, who would make Shammi Kapoor movies by signing up Shammi Kapoor clones. Thus we had actors like Joy Mukherjee, Vishwajeet etc who had reasonably successful careeres playing Shammi Kapoor type roles.
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Top priority task before India in 1950s was building roads, bridges, and dams. In 1960s, the nation realised that becoming self sufficient in food stuffs was even more important. And thus came the Lal Bahadur Shastri’s slogan -“Jai Jawan Jai Kisan” (Hail the soldier, hail the farmer).
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“Chetna” was one of those offbeat movies which were far too ahead of its time to appeal to the audiences who were still unwilling to patronise such movies. As a result, these movies fell flat at the box office. Other movies of the same genre were “Dastak” and “Do Raaha”.
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Hum intezaar karenge
Posted on: January 18, 2009
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I may not be the only person to note that majority of songs in Bollywood are about love. In these songs, the lead actors would fall in love and then sing love songs.
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O mere shaahe khubaan
Posted on: January 13, 2009
This Rafi song is so reminiscent of the Rafi-Shammi Songs of 1960s. And for long, I actually thought so.
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Most of the movies where Madan Mohan gave music failed at the box office, but when it comes to their music, music of even these flop movies became popular. In fact, a large number of songs composed by Madan Mohan have gone on to become classics.
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Here is another sad song sung by Mukesh. This song is from a movie called “Saheli”. The song was written by Indeewar and Kalyanji Anandji were the music directors.
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