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As bicycle songs go, this must be the ultimate bicycle song. In this song, people ,led by Johny Walker, are riding bicycles and going in a procession singing this song. I have not watched the movie, but what I can deduce from the picturisation and the lyrics is that they are raising their voices against a person in authority who is using his public office for personal gains. So such things happened in those days also. 🙂
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“Meena Baazaar” (1950) is a movie starring actors like Nargis, Shyam, Kuldip Kaur, Om Prakash, Gope, Sapru, Kanhaiyalal ,Bhudo Advani etc.
I have discussed three songs from this movie in the past.
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This article is written by Sudhir,a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie songs and a regular contributor to this blog.
This is the typical Shammi Kapoor fun and exuberance solo. In many of his successful movies, one will find a solo song, sung by Rafi, almost within the first 10 or 15 minutes of the movie, “Jawaanian Ye Mast Mast Bin Piye” from Tumsa Nahin Dekha, “Kisi Na Kisi Se Kabhi Na Kabhi” from Kashmir Ki Kali, “Dil Deke Dekho, Dil Deke Dekho” from Dil Deke Dekho, “Laal Chhadi Maidaan Khadi” from Jaanwar, “Aji Aisa Mauka Phir Kahaan Milega” from An Evening In Paris, and so on. It used to be like making a dynamic musical entry. 🙂 Such songs used to be the staple diet of pre teen boys like me. I would listen to a Shammi Kapoor song like this only once, and it would be committed to memory. And I used to be very much in demand at the family gatherings and birthday parties, to perform these songs. (Wow, I used to do that? What fun!!)
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Dil par huaa aisaa jaadoo
Posted on: July 4, 2011
Guru Dutt, like Meena Kumari , is today known for his tragic roles. But he, like Meena Kumari, began his career playing bubbly happy characters.
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Main ik raja hoon tu ik rani hai
Posted on: July 3, 2011
1971 was a year when old order was changing, giving way to new. Many newcomers made their first appearances in this year or thereabouts. Most of them fell by the wayside, but a few of them managed to hold on and later they established themselves in the industry.
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Dil ki lagi ne hamko
Posted on: July 2, 2011
Old Hindi movies and their songs are much like old monuments in Indian towns that mostly lie unattended and neglected. These monuments (and movies) were once centres of public attention and now few people are even aware of their existence. The legacy left behind by them is quite rich but few people bother to dig them up, refurbish them and preserve them. And it is a pity.
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Hindi movies often have songs in which two men, both small time ruffians but with heart of gold would go around the town (Bombay) and sing a song. One well known song of this genre was Do bechaare binaa sahaare (Victoria number 203) .
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Most Hindi movies and their songs deal with rather more evolved topics viz love,romance etc. But one cannot think of such things on an empty stomach. And unfortunately there are still lots and lots of people who do not know where their next meal is going to come from.
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It is a song that I have heard many a times right from my younger days, and I in fact had noted down the lyrics of this song in a diary that I used to maintain in 1970s. This diary had lyrics of songs noted down by me from radio as well as scorecards of test matches (noted down through radio commentary) that India played those days. 🙂
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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