Archive for the ‘Pathos’ Category
Tum mujhe yoon bhula na paaoge
Posted on: December 23, 2008
“Pagla Kahin Ka” was one Shammi Kapoor movie that came at the fag end of his career as a Hero. It was a movie where he did not play his usual flamboyant roles, but here he was a mortal with human frailties.
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Ek thi ladki
Posted on: December 20, 2008
This is a song from “Gumrah”, a 1963 movie showing Mala Sinha at her sacrificing best. In this movie, the kids of her sister ask her to tell a story, and she sings this song “ek thi ladki” (happy version) which she claims to be the story of one of her friends, but as the audience guess correctly, is her own story.This serves as a lullaby and the kids go to sleep peacefully.
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Hazaar raahein mudke dekhin
Posted on: December 14, 2008
After Rajesh Khanna lost his crown as the Superstar of Bollywood, he spared no efforts to regain it. He would give his best in movies after movies, but the movies would fail at the box office and even the critics would be umimpressed. Then a time came when critics began to acknowledge Rajesh Khanna’s performances, but the box office remained unrelenting.
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Tera hijr mera naseeb hai
Posted on: December 11, 2008
“Razia Sultan”, the Kamal Amrohi movie made on the only female emperor to rule Delhi, had some very nice ( and different ) songs.
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Jaane kahaan gaye wo din
Posted on: December 2, 2008
“Mera Naam Joker” was a labour of love for Raj Kapoor and he had made this movie with great hopes and expectations. Unfortunately, the story was ahead of its times and the Indian movie watchers were not ready for such movies in 1970. The movie flopped and Raj Kapoor suffered great losses as a result.
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Dil jo na kah saka
Posted on: November 30, 2008
I have posted many songs of Rafi in this blog, and in each song I have raved about his voice. In fact one cannot help but remark on his voice quality whatever the song. In every song, he appered to give his very best.
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Koi nahin hai mera
Posted on: November 21, 2008
“Samjhauta”(1973) was a movie that went unnoticed. Many people may not even have heard of this movie or its songs. Personally I heard its title song viz “samjhauta ghamon se kar lo”, but I have not been able to locate its video.
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Socha tha pyaar hum na karenge
Posted on: October 31, 2008
Listening to this Mukesh song all these years without any additional information, I thought that this song had all the attributes of a Raj kapoor song. It was sung by Mukesh, lyrics looked Shailendra like and music appeared Shankar Jaikishan like, and I was sure that the song was picturised on Raj Kapoor.
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The movie “Pavitra Paapi” is by and large forgotten. The fact that this movie had the lyrics and music by Prem Dhawan is also not known to many. But this forgotten movie has a song that is extremely well known.
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Usha Khanna, the sole female music director in Bollywood movies in the last 50 years remained confined to lesser movies for most of her career. But every once in a while, she tended to rise above the mediocrity of the movies she gave music in.
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