Archive for the ‘“Raja” song’ Category
Though Suraiyya sang majority of her songs for herself, she famously did playback singing for Mehtab during early 1940s, when Mehtab was 17-18 years of age and Suraiyya herself was barely 13-14.
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“Daasi” (1944), which is a very old and forgotten movie had some superb songs in it. The songs of this movie deserve to be much better known among music lovers.
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Nazar laagi raaja tore bangley par
Posted on: August 4, 2010
I have heard this song “Nazar laagi raaja tore bangley par” several times, and from the voice I knew that it was a song sung by Asha Bhonsle. And I was also vaguely aware that the music of this song was composed by S D Burman. That is all I knew about this song.
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“Aah” (1953), not to be confused with “Aag”( 1948) had some lovely songs composed by Shankar Jaikishan, which were equally nicely picturised.
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ABCD chhodo nainon se naina jodo
Posted on: April 5, 2009
I have noticed that Bollywood movie offers songs for all occasions and all occupations. For example, beggars, band parties of weddings etc have been using appropriate songs for decades.
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When one listens to old song, one needs to have some appreciation of history, otherwise one tends to judge old songs by present day standards and thus he/ she may do grave injustice to old songs while making hasty judgements about them.
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O mere Raja khafa na hona
Posted on: November 15, 2008
After watching every song of “Johny Mera Naam”, I have described that song as the best song in the movie, only to say the same thing about the next song from the movie. I have already posted a few songs from this movie ( two to be precise) and just about every song is so wonderful to listen to and watch. A fresh as lily Hema and a dashing Dev Saab made quite an impression in this movie, especially in the songs.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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