Archive for the ‘Romantic song’ Category
Chaand kyaa hai Roop ka darpan
Posted on: May 17, 2009
The Golden era of Bollywood music (1950 to 1980) saw many great music directors enrich Bollywood movies with their outstanding compositions. Many of them went on to have very long successful innings lasting for decades.
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I have heard this song many a times without knowing which movie this song was from. I was under the impression that this song was from some movie of 1960s.
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Mere deewanepan ki bhi dawaa nahin
Posted on: May 12, 2009
“Mehboob ki Mehandi”(1971) is a lesser known movie starring Rajesh Khanna and Leena Chandawarkar, but this movie is a musical blockbuster. I have posted a few songs from this movie, and each of these songs is a gem.
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Suno Kaho Suna kaha kuchh huaa kyaa
Posted on: May 10, 2009
There is nothing like a song picturised on Rajesh Khanna and Mumtaz to cheer one up.
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A few days ago, I posted a song from music director Ravi’s last movie, where he had not only composed the music, but wrote the lyrics and sang the song too. As far as singing songs is concerned, Ravi began singing from his very first movie as an independent music director.
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Here is a lovely song from Shikast (1953). It is a duet sung by Talat Mehmood and Lata and it is picturised on Dilip Kumar and Nalini Jaiwant.
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Khoya khoya chaand khulaa aasmaan
Posted on: April 27, 2009
By now I have posted more than a thousand songs from the golden era of Bollywood music. It can be easily noticed that lyrics played a very important roles in the success of these songs. In 1980s and later, lyrics lost its importance in the minds of the music directors and from that time onwards, songs lost their soul and their longevity. However great the singing and music may be, unless the singer and music director has a good song to work with, the song cannot hope to become popular.
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Jaadu bhare nainon mein
Posted on: April 25, 2009
Many of the songs that I post in this blog may be chronologically old, but they are new for me since I have been discovering them only just now. And I find them such refreshing songs to listen to, and watch to. It is as if one magically gets teleported to that era and gets an experience of living in that era for a few minutes. And it is a wonderful experience.
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Tumhe jo bhi dekh lega
Posted on: April 22, 2009
I wonder how many movies were there titled as “Majboor” ? The one I knew while growing up was Amitabh Bachchan’s 1974 movie of this name. And it appears that there was a movie by this name sometime in 1940s too. And now I find that there was a 1964 movie of this name too.
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Chaand se parda kijiye
Posted on: April 15, 2009
This movie “Aao Pyaar Karen” (1994) is a recent movie by the standards of this blog. This movie had a couple of nice songs composed by debutant music director Aadesh Srivastava.
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