Archive for the ‘Party song’ Category
Falsafa pyaar ka tum kyaa jaano
Posted on: May 5, 2009
If you want to make someone else to see your point of view then what do you do ? Start telling her that she is wrong and she is dumb ? In fact this song takes precisely that kind of approach.
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Jhoom jhoom ke naacho aaj
Posted on: April 24, 2009
I had posted a piano song from “Andaaz” (1949) yesterday. Here is another piano song from the same movie.
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Mera naam Rita Christina
Posted on: April 21, 2009
In Bollywood movies, action takes place mostly in India where everyone speaks Hindi/Urdu. But sometimes the action would take place in the Western counttries as well. There, even the Westerners would speak Hindi/Urdu and the western cabaret dancers would sing a cabaret song full of words like “ishq”, “husn” “haseena” etc. I suppose words like “blonde”,”bombshell” etc were not in use in West those days. 😉
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As sad songs go, this song must rank among the saddest and most poignant. Sahir Ludhianvi’s lyrics sum up the situation with the force of a well oiled sledge hammer. Hemant Kumar’s voice conveys tha pain of the protagonist so well that listeners cannot help but be moved even today, more than six decades later.
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Aap naaraaz Khuda khair kare
Posted on: April 19, 2009
I keep confusing among movies with names like “Pyaar Muhabbat” “Jawaan Muhabbat” “Pyaar Deewaana” etc. With great difficulty, I remind myself that one had Dev Anand, and another had Shammi Kapoor, and yet another had Kishore Kumar. Now which movie had which actor is something I cannot recall with any certainty.
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Nashe mein ham nashe mein tum
Posted on: April 18, 2009
When someone talks about “Black Cat”, one thinks of the well armed special protection group commandoes who protect VVIPs of India. But long ago in more laidback days, black cat only meant what it literally means, viz ‘kaali billi”, the small domesticated cat which, if it crossed your way, was considered inauspicious (for you, not for the cat itself).
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Chaand se parda kijiye
Posted on: April 15, 2009
This movie “Aao Pyaar Karen” (1994) is a recent movie by the standards of this blog. This movie had a couple of nice songs composed by debutant music director Aadesh Srivastava.
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“Pyaar Mohabbat” is not a movie too many people may have heard about. This was a movie featuring Dev Anand and Saira Bano.
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Dil ko laakh sambhaala ji
Posted on: April 9, 2009
It is a very well known song. And you guessed it, I was not aware of its details except the name of the singer.
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Zindagi ittafaq hai
Posted on: April 8, 2009
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“Aadmi aur insaan” (1969) had Ravi’s music. When I looked at the list of songs that I have posted from this movie, I found that I had posted just one song, and that too a “lesser” known one. Knowing Ravi, he creates a bagful of hit songs in every movie where he is the music director, many of which have gone on to become iconic songs.
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