Archive for the ‘Party song’ Category
Suno ji suno hamaari bhi suno
Posted on: November 19, 2009
Dilip Kumar, Raj Kapoor and Dev Anand were the three biggest male stars of Bollywood movies for nearly two decades. Considering that song and dance plays such important roles in Bollywood movies, including the movies in which these actors acted, it is interesting to note that Raj Kapoor and Dev Anand successfully dodged dancing in their movies.
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In old Bollywood movies, most leading actors would be shown seated on a grand piano and singing a song. Now it is not possible to sing and play a grand piano simultaneously, but when you are lip syncingto some one else’s voice and music is someone else’s creation, as are the lyrics,then nothing is impossible in Bollywood.
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“Aaraam” (1951) was a movie where Dev Anand was the hero. But in this movie one can also see a very young Premnath.
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“Aapke Deewaane” (1980) is a movie that had some nice songs in it. This is one of the few movies I recall where Rafi and Kishore Kumar sang together. It was perhaps for the last time that the two sang together, since Rafi died shortly thereafter.
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Hans le gaa le dhoom machaa le
Posted on: November 2, 2009
I have posted a few songs from “Jaal” (1952) but I was not aware of this song.
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Ae dil tu na dar iss jahaan se
Posted on: November 1, 2009
In 1950s, there were a few movies where Johny walker was the hero and O P Nayyar was the music director. One of these movies was in fact called “Johny Walker”.
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In the beginning of his career, Kalyanji had initially given music alone, before forming a partnership with his younger sibling, viz Anandji. “Bedard Zamaana Kyaa Jaane” (1959) is one such movie where Kalyanji gave mosic solo under the name Kalyanji Veerji Shah.
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I have posted three awesome songs from “Maaya” (1961). It turns out that there is another great song in this movie. Here is this song- “Koyi sone ke dil waala koyi chaandi ke dil waala”.
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Hoon main ik nayaa taraana
Posted on: October 23, 2009
A female dancer singing and dancing in a club, paying particular attention to the table where the hero is seated was a standard fare in Bollywood movies of 1950s. Geeta Bali, Geeta Dutt and Dev Anand often figured in such songs.
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Tum hamse kyun darta hai
Posted on: October 22, 2009
“Ham Sab Chor Hain” (1955) is a movie of historical significance because here one can see many would be legends in action during their earlier days. For instance, it was one of the first movies as a music director for O P Nayyar. It is in movies like this that he began to groom Asha Bhonsle and gave her voice an identity.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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