Archive for the ‘Poignant Song’ Category
“Raag rang” (1952) is one movie about which very little is known today. The only thing that I know about this movie is that it had music by Roshan and that Geeta Bali was the lead actress in this movie.
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“Mughal e Azam” (1960) was a musical blockbuster and almost all its songs have gone on to become iconic songs. Though I have posted a few songs from this movie, I need to post all the songs from this movie.
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One big reason why the songs of the golden era are still popular is the lyrics of these songs, which were meaningful and they in fact formed the soul of these songs.
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Just as the male singers of 1940s were influenced by the singing of K L Saigal, the female singers were influenced by Noorjahaan and sang in her style.
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Badnaam muhabbat kaun kare
Posted on: October 8, 2009
Here is a very very old song from pre independence days when Noorjahaan still ruled the roost in Bollywood movie scene. Here is a song from a movie called “Dost” (1944). This song was very popular in its time.
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Ek dil ka lagaana baaki thaa
Posted on: October 5, 2009
Many people may have noticed that the picturised versions of many songs are often different from their audio versions. One reason could be that the picturised version is often curtailed while editing the movie. But the main reason for the difference between picturised version and audio version is more technical. In olden days, it was technically not possible to record a song once and use it for audio as well as picturised versions. So those days the same song used to be recorded twice- once for the picturisation and once for the audio recording. So one could find some slight, and sometimes, more than slight differences in the two versions of the same song.
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Hamen un raahon par chalna hai
Posted on: September 28, 2009
The movie “Masoom” (1960) is known for the immortal song “Naani teri morni ko mor le gaye”.
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I was not aware of this movie called “Kinaare Kinaare” (1963), but what a musical bonanza this movie turns out to be !
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Tere sab gham mile mujhko
Posted on: September 21, 2009
I was not aware of this movie called “Hamdard” (1953). Now I have some information about this movie. “Hamdard” (1953) starred Nimmi, Shekhar and Smriti Biswas, and from the songs, the story appears a love triangle involving the abovementioned three actors.
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I have posted several “lullabies” (lori) in this blog. This song too is a lori, but with a major difference from the normal lallabies.
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