Archive for the ‘Radio Song’ Category
During the golden era of Hindi movie music (circa 1950-1980), things were quite simple and rudimentary in most fields. Hindi movie songs tended to become popular only if the movie did better, and the movies did better only if they followed certain set formulaes. Movies that tended to deviate from the standard formulae tended to fail and as a result, the songs of such movies too would suffer.
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Bahaaron ne jise chhedaa hai
Posted on: December 22, 2010
Radio songs where a long lost individual sings live on radio station and his beloved just happens to be listening to that very radio station- this was one variation of lost and found themes that Hindi movies have been so fond of.
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Yoon zindagi ke raaste
Posted on: July 29, 2010
One of the less common category of songs is what I call “Radio” songs. These are the songs that come out of Radio and people are shown listening to the song in front of their radios. And the hero/ heroine/ other actor is shown singing the song live in the radio station.
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When I was a kid and I used to listen to songs on Radio, I thought that all the songs being broadcast on radio were being sung live by the singers. So I thought that singers whose songs were broadcast so frequently were so overworked, having to sing live so often !
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“Gumraah” (1963) had some very nice songs in it. Here is one song from this movie.
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How many movies with the name “Faraar” are there in bollywood ? I was aware of “Faraar” (1975) and also “Faraar” (1955). Now, it turns out that there was a “Faraar” released in 1965 as well !
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Wo ham na thhey wo tum na thhey
Posted on: April 14, 2009
Few people are aware of this 1964 movie called “Cha Cha Cha”. It had a by now forgotten hero called Chandrashekhar, and Helen, a one dance wonder in most movies, was the heroine of this movie !
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Hamne Tujhko pyaar kiya hai itna
Posted on: April 3, 2009
Here is a typical Mukesh-Raj Kapoor song, where Raj Kapoor lip syncs on a sad Mukesh song.
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Man darpan hai
Posted on: March 28, 2009
Here is an interesting song from “Dushman” (1939) sung by K L Saigal.
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In 1960s, there used to be a category of song that could be called “Radio” song. In this, the hero or heroine would sing a song and the heroine/ hero, as the case may be would listen to the song attentively.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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