Archive for the ‘Rare song’ Category
Here is a song from a lesser known movie called “Ek Paheli” (1971).
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O arabpati ki chhori
Posted on: September 9, 2009
This is a rare song, and a fabulous song. In fact, for long I was thinking of posting this song as one of my century scoring songs ( yes, I am approaching another century), but then I decided that there are far too many great songs lying there and if I keep them in abeyance waiting for them to be posted as century making songs then I may have to wait far too long.
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“Mohar” (1959) was a movie starring Shammi Kapoor and Geeta Bali, but not much is known about this movie today. This movie has flopped badly at the box office. And as luck would have it, Madan Mohan was the music director of this movie. Seeing his movie bomb at the box office was a fate that Madan Mohan suffered in most of the 92 movies in which he gave music.
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Shaam suhaani ho nadi ho paani ho
Posted on: July 18, 2009
I just discovered a forgotten song from a forgotten movie. This movie is “Kaala Chor” (1956) and this song is a light hearted time pass song.
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Pyaara pyaara ye samaa
Posted on: June 22, 2009
“Laal Quila”(1960) was a C grade movie with lesser known actors and its music was by S N Tripathi, the biggest name in music direction in such movies.
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I am a big fan of Ganesh, the forgotten music director of 1960s and 1970s. He was the younger brother of Pyarelal (of Laxmikant Pyarelal duo).
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Teri jheel si gahri aankhon mein
Posted on: January 18, 2009
Mukesh had become such a brand name that when his son Nitin decided to become a playback singer like his father, he used his father’s name like a surname and was known as Nitin Mukesh.
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Mera naam Yaao mere paas aao
Posted on: January 17, 2009
This is a very very rare song. So rare in fact that its video, or for that matter even its audio is extremely difficult to locate. I have been looking for it for several months, and I have finally been able to locate its audio.
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Baaghon mein bahaar aayi
Posted on: January 16, 2009
Anand Bakshi is the most prolific lyricist in Bollywood history. Many dozens of singers must have sung songs penned by him.
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