Archive for the ‘Party song’ Category
Ham premi prem karna jaanen
Posted on: February 8, 2009
Here is a typical showdown song between brothers, that was fairly common in Bollywood movies featuring Amitabh Bachchan in 1970s. In this song, Amitabh Bachchan and Vinod Khanna are the two bothers and they sing this song in a party called by their parents. Shammi Kapoor plays their father in this movie.
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Aao aao jaane jahaan
Posted on: February 8, 2009
Few people have heard the name of the movie and few people have heard this song. But this song “aao aao jaane jahaan” quickly grows up upon its listeners. I listened to this song from “Gomti Ke Kinnare” (1972) yesterday for the first time. During the first hearing, I wondered what the fuss was all about, but after listeneing to it a second time, I was hooked.
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When we talk about old evergreen classics, most of the the time we are talking about the creations of big name music directors who have become legends by now. But there are quite a few evergreen classic songs that are the creations of less known music directors.
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Kankariya maar ke jagaaya
Posted on: February 4, 2009
In Bollywood movies, we have party songs and we have folk dance songs and we have tapori songs.
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Pyaar pe koyi bas to nahin hai
Posted on: February 3, 2009
Most movies that are remembered by future generations are those which are made by established film makers with established personnel. It is rare to find a movie made by novice filmakers with novice personnel hit the jackpot. Most of the time, such movies fail miserably, and quite deservedly too.
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I was not aware much about this movie “Saathi” (1968). I am surprised to see that this movie is not that well known to me despite this movie boasting of some very nice songs.
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Chaalke teri aankhon se
Posted on: February 1, 2009
Last month, I had been posting the innumerable songs of “Aarzoo” alphabetically. I had posted all the songs beginning from the letters A and B and now I am on to the letter C.
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Huzoorewaala jo ho izaajat
Posted on: January 28, 2009
This song is a typically O P Nayyar tune as far as the use of the musical nstruments are concerned. This movie “Ye Raat Phir Na Aayegi” came in 1966 when O P Nayyar was on the decline.
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There are people who like to go to party. What exactly do they do in the party ? If they are like the party goers in Bollywood songs, most of them just stand like statues when the hero is hogging the limelight, singing a song. Except hero, everyone else seems discomfited. Even the heroine is not at ease, because the contents of the song are either praising her or cursing her, and in either case, she feels mightily embarrassed.
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Tumne mujhe dekha
Posted on: January 22, 2009
What can one say about the music of “Teesri Manzil” that has not been said ? It was the launch pad of R D Burman as a formidable music director in Bollywood music industry. The songs, all of them, broke new ground. Rafi and Asha Bhonsle were magical in this movie. Majrooh Sultanpuri came up ith some wonderful lyrics.
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