Archive for the ‘Pathos’ Category
Gham ka fasaanaa kisko sunaayen
Posted on: August 13, 2010
“Mela” (1948) was a movie starring very young Nargis and Dilip Kumar in lead roles.
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Indian independence also brought partition, and it caused human suffering on a large scale. Quite a few movies were made on this subject. “Lahore” (1949), starring Karan Dewan and Nargis was one of the first such movies on this subject.
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Sajnaa lagan teri sone naa de
Posted on: August 5, 2010
Recently, I posted two songs from “Duniyaa Naa Maane” (1937). Two decades later, another movie of the same name was released in 1959. Here is a song from this movie, viz. “Duniyaa Naa Maane” (1959).
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It was on 31st July 1980 that Rafi left us for heavenly abode and the music world was suddenly a much poorer place. The vacuum that was created as a result of his demise could not be filled and that vacuum exists even today.
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Main shaayar badnaam
Posted on: July 31, 2010
While posting songs from the golden era of Bollywood movies, I have tended to concentrate more on the songs of 1950s and 1960s, even though I grew up with songs of 1970s. Just like we these days lament about the quality of Bollywood movie songs today and cite old Bollywood movie songs as the epitome of quality, the same lament was heard even in 1970s. Even I was under the impression that the quality of music in 1970s was not what it was in the earlier years. Now of course I can have a hearty laugh at my own expense with the benefit of hindsight.
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I have listened to this song quite a few times, but I was not aware of the details about this song, apart from the obvious fact that this song was sung by Lata.
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“Sehraa” (1963) is a movie that has some memorable songs in it. I was under the impression that I had already posted this song, but I was mistaken. Now that I have realised it, it is time for me to make amends and post it.
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I have posted several songs from “Mr and Mrs 55” (1955) but I was not aware that this song was from that movie. Somehow this song to my mind did not belong to this movie.
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Raat aur din diyaa jale
Posted on: July 24, 2010
Here is a very well known title song from a reasonably well known movie. The movie is “Raat Aur Din” (1967) and the song is “Raat aur din diyaa jale”.
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Here is a ghazal from a 1967 movie called “Jaal”.
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