Archive for the ‘Pathos’ Category
“Aankhen” (1950) is the debut movie of Madan Mohan as a music director. I have written about three songs from this movie in the past. In the cases of these three songs, nly the audio was available.
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Haay re insaan ki majbooriyaan
Posted on: September 13, 2010
“Ghoonghat” (1960) was a movie made by a South Indian production house, viz Gemini. It had Pradeep Kumar and Bina Rai in lead roles.
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Sochaa thhaa kyaa kyaa ho gayaa
Posted on: September 9, 2010
I have been posting songs from “Anmol Ghadi” (1946) these days. So far, all the songs posted by me (all 8 of them) have been centred around Noorjahaan and Surendra, but this movie als had Suraiyya in it. And naturally, she too sang songs in this movie.
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I have posted three songs from “Mirza Ghalib” (1954) in the past. It seems that there are readers who are aware of more songs from this movie.
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Ye raat suhaani raat nahin
Posted on: September 7, 2010
I find that I have posted only one song from “Dil e Naadaan” (1953) so far. Here is another song from this movie.
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Ab kaun hai meraa
Posted on: September 4, 2010
“Anmol Ghadi” (1946) was the biggest hit of the year 1946 and this movie in fact must be regarded as a landmark movie in the Hindi movie industry. The movie had Noorjehaan, Surendra and Suraiyya in lead roles. These three in fact sang their own songs. There was no dearth of songs in this movie. There were as many as 12 songs in it and they all became very popular.
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Taqdeer ka shiqwaa kaun kare
Posted on: September 2, 2010
I had never heard of this movie called “Poonam” (1952). Now I have found that it was a movie starring Ashok Kumar, Kamini Kausal, Asha Mathur etc.
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Koi nahin mera iss duniyaa mein
Posted on: September 1, 2010
When one looks at songs that end up as timeless songs, sad songs will form a good proportion of these songs. Lyrics of these songs contribute the most in making these songs memorable.
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Khushiyon ko lootkar yahaan
Posted on: August 31, 2010
In Indian history/mythology/ folk tales, we have been handed down a few love stories, viz “Shirin Farhad”, “Sohni-Mahiwaal”,”Laila-Majnu” etc. All these love stories have one thing in common. And it is the tragic nature of these stories. And that is to be expected seeing that the ground reality in Indian culture does not allow people of opposite genders to openly interacts and fall in love with each other.
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Sad songs form an important genre of songs in Hindi movies. And it is noticed that many of such songs go on to become timeless classics.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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