Archive for the ‘Pathos’ Category
“Raag rang” (1952) is one movie about which very little is known today. The only thing that I know about this movie is that it had music by Roshan and that Geeta Bali was the lead actress in this movie.
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“Mughal e Azam” (1960) was a musical blockbuster and almost all its songs have gone on to become iconic songs. Though I have posted a few songs from this movie, I need to post all the songs from this movie.
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One big reason why the songs of the golden era are still popular is the lyrics of these songs, which were meaningful and they in fact formed the soul of these songs.
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Just as the male singers of 1940s were influenced by the singing of K L Saigal, the female singers were influenced by Noorjahaan and sang in her style.
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Ik dil ke tukde hazaar huye
Posted on: October 7, 2009
In 1948, most present day legendary Bollywood figures were only just starting their careers and they had yet to acquire their cult status.
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When you need to look for iconic songs on any topic, you should look for songs composed by Ravi. I have noticed that majority of iconic Bollywood songs, whatever be their topics, have been composed by Ravi.
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Ek dil ka lagaana baaki thaa
Posted on: October 5, 2009
Many people may have noticed that the picturised versions of many songs are often different from their audio versions. One reason could be that the picturised version is often curtailed while editing the movie. But the main reason for the difference between picturised version and audio version is more technical. In olden days, it was technically not possible to record a song once and use it for audio as well as picturised versions. So those days the same song used to be recorded twice- once for the picturisation and once for the audio recording. So one could find some slight, and sometimes, more than slight differences in the two versions of the same song.
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While listeneing to the songs of old movies, we often praise the singer and/ or the music director, but many of us tend to underestimate the contribution of the lyricist. However great a tune, or however wonderful a voice may be, unless the singer gets a good well written song, it is not very likely that the song is going to catch the imagination of the public.
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Mohabbat ke maaron ka haal
Posted on: October 5, 2009
In “Baawre Nain” (1950), Mukesh did the playback singing for the hero (Raj Kapoor) whereas Raj Kumari and Geeta Dutt sang for Geeta Bali, the heroine. But they were not the only playback singers in this movie.
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Dil ne to diyaa dhokhaa
Posted on: October 2, 2009
Roshan had given music in 51 movies before his untimely death in 1967. A perusal of the songs posted in this blog tells me that I have posted songs from majority of these movies with music by Roshan. If I keep posting songs, soon I will have music from all Roshan movies in this blog.
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