Archive for the ‘playful song’ Category
Surma mera niraalaa
Posted on: August 4, 2011
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Celebrating and remembering Kishore Da on the anniversary of his birth today. 🙂
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Aankh mein shokhi lab pe tabassum
Posted on: March 13, 2011
“Reshmi Roomaal” (1961) is a B grade movie starring Manoj Kumar (then a newcomer) opposite Shakila (then over the hill). This movie and its songs are quite obscure as of now.
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Tu ladki main ladkaa ladkaa
Posted on: March 7, 2011
Songs and dances play a very important role in Hindi movies. In olden days, lead actors were needed to sing and dance. Once playback singing began, actors were thankfully no longer required to sing their own songs, but they were still required to dance. That is especially true for actresses and proficiency in dancing was an important skill for them.
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My readers must have noticed that these days I am concentrating a lot on discussing songs of certain particular artists. And then all of a sudden, I start discussing the songs of some other artist.
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I keep stumbling against unknown and unheard of gems almost every day. Look what I discovered just now !
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Hu tu tu tu tu
Posted on: February 4, 2011
This is a song that I had never heard before ! And this song is an unusual song in more ways than one.
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Bataa doon kyaa laanaa
Posted on: December 21, 2010
I was very surprised to see this song being given as a farmaaish because I thought that this song was discussed long back. On checking, I found that I was wrong of course. Perhaps I may have planned to discuss this song but I did not.
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It is popularly belived that the use of Hinglish words (Hindi and English words combined) began in Hindi movies only in 1980s and it met with the disapproval of purists. But in reality, such Hinglish songs have been there from 1940s itself. Who can forget the evergreen song Aana meri jaan meri jaan sunday ke sunday from “Shehnaayi” (1947).
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“Daasi” (1944), which is a very old and forgotten movie had some superb songs in it. The songs of this movie deserve to be much better known among music lovers.
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Main keh doon tum ko chor
Posted on: October 18, 2010
Playful romantic songs, especially those that are picturised on a pair of actors who were actually romantically involved always makes for good listen/watch. Dev Anand and Suraiyya were one of the first such on screen couple.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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