Archive for the ‘Prayer’ Category
Darshan do Ghanshyaam
Posted on: August 20, 2009
In my school days, my Hindi textbooks used to contain poems by eminent Hindi poets. One such poet was called Gopal Singh Nepali.
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Ham kathputle kaath ke
Posted on: July 20, 2009
I have posted a few songs from “Shikast” (1953) in the past. This movie had Dilip Kumar and Nalini Jaiwant in lead roles.
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Mere gunaah maaf kar
Posted on: June 27, 2009
Now that I have cleared my backlog of farmaishes from 2008, it is time for me to take up the pending farmaishes of 2009. The oldest farmaish of 2009 that I have not yet posted is from “Sachchaayi” (1969).
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Tumhi ho maata pitaa tumhi ho
Posted on: May 23, 2009
There are some Bollywood songs which became so popular that they became part of Indian life. For instance, many filmy prayers/ bhajans became real life prayers/ bhajans. I have already posted a few such songs.
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Tu pyaar ka saagar hai
Posted on: March 16, 2009
Meena Kumari is regarded as the first great tragedy queen of Bollywood movies. But in reality that crown rightfully belongs to Nutan. Nutan had begun playing tragic roles as early as 1955 when Meena Kumari was still playing happy bubbly roles.
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Parwar digaare aalam
Posted on: March 3, 2009
This movie “Hatimtai” (1956) was a C grade movie, the kind of movie which is lucky to see the light of day, and which is destined to pass into oblivion soon thereafter.
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Here is a very cute song from a movie called “Harishchandra Taramati” (1963).
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This song is from 1949, just after independence. The song is recorded under primitive technological conditions, still the quality of this recording is very good. The voice of Suraiyya can still enthrall the listeners.
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Hamko man ki shakti dena
Posted on: January 31, 2009
This is a prayer from “Guddi” which was the debut movie of Jaya Bhaduri and who had played the title role in this movie.
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