Archive for the ‘Raj Kapoor songs by Mukesh’ Category
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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Dil ki nazar se nazron ki dil se
Posted on: March 21, 2009
“Anaadi” was a movie starring Raj Kapoor and Nutan. There were some very nice songs picturised on them in this movie.
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Wo chand khila wo taare hanse
Posted on: February 18, 2009
I have noticed that the word “Chaand” figured quite frequently in movie songs of 1950s and 1960s. And many of these songs are quite well known even today.
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O shama mujhe phoonk de
Posted on: February 12, 2009
Here is a typical Raj Kapoor song. Typical Raj Kapoor song meant it was sung by Mukesh, lyricist was Shailendra and the music was composed by Shankar Jaikishan.
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Just like we had Rafi-Shammi Kapoor songs, we also had Mukesh-Raj Kapoor songs.
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Here is a much loved song from “Anaadi” which is sung by Mukesh and picturised on Raj Kumar. This song is a standard Raj Kapoor production, in the sense that this song is created by the standard Raj Kapoor team. The song is penned by Shailendra and the music is composed by Shankar Jaikishan.
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Kahta hai Joker saara zamana
Posted on: January 19, 2009
India of 1970 was a much more simple,unsophisticated, and underdeveloped in most respects. So much so that movie makers who decided to make different off beat movies were left in the lurch. Raj Kapoor was one such movie maker who paid heavily for overestimating the calibre of his audience. His ambitious labour of love “Mera Naam Joker” fell flat at the box office.
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In earlier days, Bollywood movies had specialists doing specialised kind of work. Villains would commit the dark deeds, comedians would make people laugh, hero would do his herogiri etc.
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Ruk jaa o jaane wali ruk jaa
Posted on: December 28, 2008
After quite some time, here is a Mukesh song from Kanhaiyya (1959). This song is a typical Raj Kapoor movie song. It means that the singer is Mukesh, Lyricist is Shailendra and Shankar Jaikishan are the music directors.
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Dam dam diga diga
Posted on: December 13, 2008
I have listened to this song many a times and it appears a typical Raj Kapoor movie song all the way. It is obviously sung by Mukesh. And I was convinced that Shailendra and Shankar Jaikishan have to be the lyricist and Music directors respectively. So I was mightily surprised to know that I was off target. The lyricist for this movie Chhaliya is Qamar Jalalabadi and the music director duo is Kalyanji Anandji for this movie. And I must say that they have done very good imitation of Shailendra and Shankar Jaikishan, who were they the top lyricist and music director in Bollywood.
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