Archive for the ‘philosophical song’ Category
Jeewan se lambe hain bandhu
Posted on: April 10, 2011
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie songs and a regular contributor of articles to this blog.
The super Manna Dey song from Aashirwaad, 1968. Lyrics are by Gulzar and music is by Vasant Desai.
The lyrics of this song are just superb, very characteristic Gulzar poetry, use of very simple words, communicating a very profound ideas. The lines “saans ki dori chhoti pad gayee, lambi aas dagariyaa” is such a warm and touching thought, said so simply.
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I stumbled upon this rare song just now. This song is from a movie called “Jaasoos” (1957) which apparently never got released, though a few of its songs were recorded.
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There are songs in Hindi movies that I call philosophical songs. I just realised that calling them spiritual songs is a better description of those songs. So now I have opened a new tag, viz. “Spiritual song” tag for such songs.
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Din raat badalte hain
Posted on: February 8, 2011
“Naya Sansaar” (1959) is quite an obscure movie. Few people seem to be aware of any details about the cast of this movie. This appears to be a B grade movie that failed at the box office.
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Re moorakh tu kyaa jaane
Posted on: January 29, 2011
I am not much aware of this movie called “Amaanat”(1955) which is one of four movies of this name, others being “Amaanat” (1943), “Amaanat” (1977) and “Amaanat” (1994).
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Ajab tori duniyaa ho more Rama
Posted on: January 29, 2011
“Do Beegha Zameen” (1953) was one of the first Hindi movies to win international acclaim (At Cannes Film festival), in addition to sweeping the awards at the inaugural Filmfare awards.
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Ye maanaa dil jise dhoondhe
Posted on: November 24, 2010
I have been discussing songs from “Zimbo” (1958) these days. So far I have discussed a “running around the tree” song and a stage song.
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“Adhikaar” (1954) is a movie that is ahead of its time. And as far as its music is concerned, it is timeless as I have been discovering. The movie has several songs of different genre and all these songs are gems.
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Main pal do pal ka shaayar hoon
Posted on: October 25, 2010
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“Kabhi Kabhi” (1976) is a movie whose music was quite unlike the music prevalent in Hindi movies at that time. The music of this movie had a retro feel about it and music lovers liked that. The songs of this movie became popular and they in fact have outlived most songs of that era.
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Songs play a very important role in the overall experience of a movie goer. Normally it takes a while before the first song kicks in. But there are occasions when the movie begins with a song. Credits are rolling in and a song is playing in the background. As the credit ends, so does the song, and the story begins in the right earnest.
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