Archive for the ‘“Piano” song’ Category
Anokhaa jaadoogar Bhagwaan
Posted on: February 13, 2011
The 1975 blockbuster movie “Sholay” needs no introduction, but few people are aware that a movie of the same name was also made in 1953. This movie “Shole” (1953) had Ashok Kumar ,Beena Rai ,Poornima ,Manmohan Krishna ,Jeewan ,Mirza Musharraf,Baby Naaz etc in it.
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Chehre pe khushi chhaa jaati hai
Posted on: February 6, 2011
The lyrics for this song are provided by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie songs and a regular contributor of lyrics for this blog
Multi starrer movies became a norm in Hindi movies in a big way in 1975 when “Sholay” (1975) came up. In the wake of its mega success, many multi starrer movies followed.
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I have discussed a song from “Saawan Aaya Re”(1949) in the past. Here is another song from this movie. The song shows a lady asking the man (Kishore Sahu) to marry her whereas the man who is having a parallel affair with her sister as well, naturally tries to stall her, asking her that there is all the time in the world for all that and one should rather spend that time in activities such and singing and dancing. On his prompting, this song and dance commences.
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Jab tumne muhabbat chheen li
Posted on: January 30, 2011
I have been discussing the songs of “Amaanat” (1955) in these pages these days. Here is another song from this movie.
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Music was introduced in Hindi movies as soon as these movies began to talk (viz 1931). The first decade of talking movies saw actors singing their own songs, though playback singing too had started by 1935.
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Mera dil hai pyaar ka aashiyaan
Posted on: December 17, 2010
I am a big fan of Ravi as a music director who was active in music direction throughout the golden era of hindi movie music and even beyond it.
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Chaman mein rah ke veeraanaa
Posted on: December 16, 2010
Here is a lovely grand piano song from “Deedaar” (1951). This is a song picturised on Nargis, with Ashok Kumar also visible in the picturisation.
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In 1950s, Talat Mehmood, then a leading playback singer, also tried his hands in acting. He started played leading roles in several movies.
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In my bid to discuss all the Sajjad Hussain songs, I have made considerable progress. I have so far discussed as many as 40 songs, which is a big figure, considering that Sajjad Hussain composed only about 100 songs in Hindi movies.
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Get together songs, accompanied by piano were introduced in Hindi movies in late 1940s. Such songs became standard fare in Hindi movies and remained so for the next three decades or so.
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