Archive for the ‘philosophical song’ Category
Chhod musaafir maaya nagar
Posted on: March 5, 2012
I have mentioned it in the past that I did not like “old” songs when I was young. Those days (1970s), anything more than five years old was old for me. Today, I love listening to songs that are fifty, sixty and sometimes even seventy years old. Things have changed. I would like to believe that I have “matured”. Of course, I will not say that I was wrong as a kid.
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Tu dhoondhta hai jisko
Posted on: March 4, 2012
“Yatrik” (1952) was a New Theatre (Calcutta) production. It was directed by Kartik Chatterji. The movie had Vasant Chaudhary, Arundhati Mukherjee, Abhi Bhattacharjee etc in it.
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Kaun karta hai kisi ka intezaar
Posted on: March 1, 2012
“Kasturi” (1954) was a Sargam Pictures presentation. This movie was directed by someone called Rajendra Kumar (not the movie actor I am sure). The “star” cast of this movie had Sajjan, Samson, Nimmi, Bipin Gupta, Anand Prasad, Alka etc in it.
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Manzil ki chaah mein
Posted on: February 29, 2012
There have been several adaptations of the novel Devdas, not only in Hindi movies, but in movies of other languages too. Among the various movies of this name, “Devdas” (1935) and “Devdas”(1955) are regarded as masterpieces.
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Tu aap hai apna chor
Posted on: February 25, 2012
Singing filmy songs is a career not only for playback singers but also for small time beggars etc in real life. We in these pages have discussed beggars singing Hindi movie songs on Mumbai local trains. I wonder if beggars still sing such songs on these locals, seeing how crowded these train are. Singing these songs on the roadside, or typically while seated under a tree on the streets is a much better option.
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Mohammad Hussain Farooqui is not a singer that is familiar to too many music lovers today. He worked as a playback singer in late 1940s in Hindi movies before disappearing into oblivion.
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Here is one more of those “What ! This song was not yet covered ..” category of song. I was under the impression that this song had long been discussed but I was wrong. Now I realise that I had discussed this song in another of my (by now defunct) blog while discussing rail songs.
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“Sheroo” (1957) is an S P Productions movie. It was directed by Shakti Samanta. The movie had Ashok Kumar, Nalini Jaiwant, Anoop Kumar, Rashid Khan etc in it.
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Zindagi ek safar hai suhaana
Posted on: December 29, 2011
- In: "Zindagi" song | Asha Bhonsle solo | Asha Bhonsle songs | Duet | Feelings of heart | Kishore Kumar songs | Kishore Kumar-Asha Bhonsle duet | Motorbike song | Multiple version song | philosophical song | Rafi songs | Rajesh Khanna songs | Rajesh Khanna songs by Kishore Kumar | Shammi Kapoor songs | Shammi Kapoor songs by Rafi | Songs of 1970s (1971 to 1980) | Songs of 1971 | Yearwise breakup of songs
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Some newspapers tend to have columns called “This day that year” or similar. In that column, they discuss the important events that happened on that day in the past.
Today is 29th of december 2011. If I am asked to describe what I did in the past years on this day then I will draw a blank for most of the years, including years as recent as one or two years back. But ironically there is one year on this date that is as fresh in my mind as if it happened just yesterday. In reality, it happened exactly 40 years back. Yes, I remember the day of 29th december 1971 very well. It was a day that did not begin all that well but became memorable as the day wore on.
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Sabhi sukh door se guzren
Posted on: December 26, 2011
“Aarambh” (1976) is a recent movie by the standards of this movie which swas released at a time when I was at my precocious best as a follower of Hindi movies, but even I failed to notice anything about this movie at that time. So this movie must have been a big failure at the box office. This movie had a “star” cast of names like Rakesh pandey, Rama Vij, Kishore Kapoor, Vipin Gupta. These names did not ring any bells those days nor do they ring any bells today. In other words, movie with “star” cast was doomed to fail.
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