Archive for the ‘philosophical song’ Category
Kaun kisi ko baandh saka hai
Posted on: November 20, 2008
In Bollywood movies, jail inmates are often shown as comedians, and there are a few comedy songs in Bollywood movies sung by the jailbirds, viz in “Vishwanath”.
“Kaaliya” too has a jail song, but here it is a philosophical song. This song is not sung by the hero ( Amitabh) or any other main character of the movie.
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Kya miliye aise logon se
Posted on: November 15, 2008
When a seminar/ get-together/ function etc is organised, these programmes have addresses made by eminent people viz chief guest, invited dignitaries etc. Suppose Bollywood decided to make a movie on this topic. Then how would a movie made on this subject look like ?
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“Kasauti” was a movie with Amitabh Bachchan and Hema Malini in the lead. The movie flopped badly. But there was one song in this movie that became very popular those days. It was the song ” Hum bolega to bologe ki bolta hai”. It was sung by Kishore Kumar. But it was not picturised on Amitabh, the hero of the movie, but on Pran, the erstwhile villain who had turned a new leaf into a character artist those days. In this song, he dons the garb of a gurkha.
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Nadiya chale chale re dhaara
Posted on: October 28, 2008
“Safar” was a Rajesh Khanna movie of 1970. One thing that is noticeable about this movie is its songs. Quite a few of its songs became very popular.
“Gopi” was one of the last movies with Dilip Kumar as the hero. In this movie, Dilip Kumar sings a few philosophical songs. This song “sukh ke sab saathi” is perhaps the best known of the songs of this movie.
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1970s saw the emergence of small budget family entertainers sans fights and violence. Amol Palekar and Vidhya Sinha were two of the leading “stars” of such movies. Two of their most memorable movies together were “Rajnigandha” and “Chhoti si baat”. These two movies can infact be treated as extensions of each other, that is how much these two movies had in common.
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Though 1970 was a decade when action movies had begun to dominate, there were small time movie makers who produced small budget family entertainers sans fights and action. Rajshri Productions, the Basus ( Basu Bhattacharya and Chatterji), Hrishikesh Mukherji and some South India producers were the ones who produced such movies.
Though these movies lacked stars most of the time, but the music in these movies was of a high quality. Such movies and their music created their own niche market.
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Sachchai chhup nahin sakti
Posted on: September 21, 2008
It was one of the most popular songs of 1971 as far as I was concerned. And I guess one can say that for many other songs, that is how good the songs of 1971 were.
This song could be heard frequently on radio and loudspeakers those days. I knew that the movie was from Rajesh Khanna starrer “Dushman”, but that is all I knew. It is only recently that I have watched the video clip of this song and then I came to know that Rajesh Khanna goes to a kotha, gets drunk and sings this song.
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Here is a song from 1973 that is funny as well as serious, both at the same time. It preaches us the value of being content with what we have rather than losing sleep over chasing mirages.
Rajinder Krishan, as usual came up with wonderful lyrics containing simple words with deep meaning. Laxmikant Pyarelal compose a nice song, sung well by Kishore and Lata. Overall, it may have been considered as a timepass song in the context of the movie, but I think the message of the song goes beyond the scope of the storyline of the by now forgotten movie.
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Chhoti si ye zindgani re
Posted on: September 15, 2008
Mukesh sings a wonderful philosophical song penned by Shailendra and set to tune by Shankar Jaikishan. The movie is Aah, a Raj Kapoor starrer.
Raj Kapoor is very much present in the picturisation of this song, but this song is not picturised on Raj Kapoor. Then who has the audacity to sing it on the screen ? Well, the bullock cart driver who carries Raj kapoor on his cart sings it. And it is no character artist. Look closely, it is Mukesh himself who is the bullock card driver and who sings this song on screen.
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