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In my series of posts on the songs of “Aarti” (1962), here is the third song in the series.
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Baar baar tohe kyaa samjhaaye
Posted on: January 28, 2009
“Aarti” (1962) had some wonderful songs, and I am posting these songs now a days. This second song begins somewhat similarly to the other song. In the first song “Kahbhi to milegi”, Meena Kumari listens to a song on Radio, and then sings that song.
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Mili khaaq mein muhabbat
Posted on: January 28, 2009
It is difficult to believe it now, but both Guru Dutt and Meena Kumari actually used to play happy roles when they began their acting careers. It was sometime in late 1950s that both began to act in sad roles and they both got typecast into such roles so much that their past roles were soon forgotten.
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Wo hain zara khafa khafa
Posted on: January 28, 2009
In Bollywood movies, majority of songs are romantic songs. One small portion of such songs is the “sulking” song, where one party, typically the female sulks and the other person has to appease the sulking person.
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Iss rang badalti duniya mein
Posted on: January 27, 2009
Here is yet another Rafi-Shammi Kapoor song which is sung and picturised with the same passion which we have come to associate with such songs. Hasrat Jaipuri is the lyricist and Shankar Jaikishan are the music director, as was the case in majority of such songs.
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Ye desh hai veer jawaanon ka
Posted on: January 26, 2009
India became independent in 1947 but the course that the new nation would take was determined on 26th January, 1950 when Indians gave themselves their constitution.
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Apni to har aah ek toofaan hai
Posted on: January 25, 2009
S D Burman is renowned for composing some fantastic boat songs. But I have noted that S D Burman, as well as his son R D were the leading exponents, when it came to creating memorable train songs as well.
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There are people who like to go to party. What exactly do they do in the party ? If they are like the party goers in Bollywood songs, most of them just stand like statues when the hero is hogging the limelight, singing a song. Except hero, everyone else seems discomfited. Even the heroine is not at ease, because the contents of the song are either praising her or cursing her, and in either case, she feels mightily embarrassed.
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Chaman ke phool bhi
Posted on: January 25, 2009
In Bollywood movies, only hero and heroine seem to have tender feelings seeing that only they get to sing romantic songs. Villains on the other hand seem to have hearts made of granite and they do not have any tender feelings of love etc.
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Madan Mohan not only got the best out of Lata, he did that with other singers as well. In fact, he had the knack of getting the best out of every singer he worked with, because he had the ability to guage the range of the singer’s voice and he would tailor his music accordingly. Thus we have singers as varied as Lata, Rafi, Kishore Kumar, Mukesh,Talat Mahmood, Asha Bhonsle, Bhupinder etc singing some of their most memorable songs under Madan Mohan.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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