Archive for the ‘philosophical song’ Category
Mat bhool arre insaan
Posted on: April 11, 2010
In Bollywood movies, most songs are picturised on lead actors, but sometimes songs are picturised on bit actors playing beggars/ mandicants/ sadhus etc who would be shown singing a philosophical song as a leading lady would be shown suffering. This song is one such song. The lady (who is she !) finds her helpless and she is seen arriving at a temple as a last resort, where this song is sung.
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Baat baat mein rootho naa
Posted on: November 9, 2009
“Seema” (1955) is a movie where Nutan played a tragedy queen role for the first time. As befitted her role, she would remain sad in the movie all the time.
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I had never heard of this movie called “Pehli Jhalak”, but there was one movie by this name in 1954. And now that I have stumbled upon the songs of this movie, I have realised that this movie has some lovely songs in it.
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Bollywood movies and Indian Railways are two of the major unifying factors for this vast nation of India. And these two often come face to face. We have people sitting in railway trains and singing songs (ask beggars on local trains) and on the other hand we have movies depicting songs sung in trains.
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Kitni sach hai ye baat re
Posted on: September 27, 2009
“Mashaal” (1950) was a musical blockbuster which had some very nice songs. For example, ‘Upar gagan vishaal”, which announced the arrival of Manna Dey as a playback singer, was from this movie.
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The more one listens to the songs of “Ham Dono” (1961), the more admiration one feels for the creators of the music of this movie.
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Ye safar bahut hai kathin magar
Posted on: September 6, 2009
“1942, A love story” (1993) was a movie where the music saved the day for the movie. The songs of this movie were reminishent of 1960s where music tended to be a major attraction of movies.
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During early 1950s, the biggest name in male playback singing was Talat Mehmood, and like Suraiyya on the distaff side, he was foraying into acting too. In fact, many music directors at that time thought that he was not avaialble to sing for other actors ( like Suraiyya) and as a result he stopped getting offers for playback singing for other actors.
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