Archive for the ‘“saawan” song’ Category
Zara thham jaa tu ae saawan
Posted on: October 16, 2011
“Jogan” (1950) was a Ranjit Movietone movie which was a big risk taken by Chandulal Shah, the producer, since the theme of the movie as envisaged by him was regarded as a recipe for disaster by leading directors like Nitin Bose and Mahesh Kaul, who refused to have anything to do with the project. Then Kidar Sharma took up the challenge and finished up the project in less than one month. This risky proposition, whose failure would have ruined Chandulal Shah financially had the movie failed, became a box office success.
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“Moorti” (1945) is a by now obscure movie. This movie was produced by Ranjit Movietone and directed by Chaturbhuj Doshi. The movie had Motilal, Khursheed, Padma Banerjee, Yashwant Dube, Kamal Jamindar, Kaneez, Tara Bai etc. in it.
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Oodi oodi chhaayi ghataa
Posted on: August 10, 2011
Though I have discussed as many as seven songs from “Amar” (1954) already, I was not aware of this song till its lyrics were sent to me by Atif M.
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When I was growing up in late 1960s and early 1970s, I was upset with oldtimer movie makers of earlier decades. Why did the oldtimers create such “boring” songs. And secondly, why would they give their movies the same titles as the movies of 1970s. 🙂 Yes, I blamed old movie makers for their titles like Dushman(1938),Jugnu (1947), Anokhi Ada(1948), Andaaz(1949), Samadhi (1950), Aankhen(1951) etc which were the same titles vis a vis titles of new movies released in late 1960s and early 1970s. Whenever I heard an announcement in Akashwani that a song of the abovementioned movies was going to be played, I eagerly looked forward to listening to a new song, but I felt badly let down on finding that the song played was from an old movie of the same name.
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Saawan ke jhoole pade
Posted on: June 6, 2011
When I saw the first line of the song, I thought it was the song from “Jurmaanaa” (1979), but then I found that this song was from an older movie called “Pyaar Ki Pyaas” (1961), which is a movie I knew nothing about.
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Saawan aayaa baadal aaye
Posted on: April 27, 2011
Most of the song farmaishes that I get are in the blog, but sometimes I also get farmaishes for songs in my email inbox. Yesterday I received an e mail from Jeetendra Mistry, who requested me to discuss a song called ” Saawan aayaa baadal aaya ” from “Jaan Haazir Hai” (1975). He mentioned that this song, which is picturised on Urmila Bhatt, is a rare song which he is unable to find.
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Tere bin saawan kaise beetaa
Posted on: April 5, 2011
“Jab Yaad Kisi Ki Aati Hai” (1967) is a movie starring Dharmendra and Mala Sinha. The movie apparently did not do well at the box office.
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Stumbling upon unheard of musical gems has become almost a daily routine with me. Today is no exception.
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Thandi thandi saawan ki phuhaar
Posted on: January 29, 2011
When one mentions “Jaagte Raho”(1956) the one song that readily comes to mind is the song Zindagi khwaab hai. This movie had other nice songs in it too, such as the song Jaago Mohan pyaare jaago.
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Rajesh Khanna, who was born on 29th December 1942, made his mark as a superstar in Hindi movies sometime in the second half of 1969, when “Aradhana” (1969) was released. This movie gave him an identity and a persona which became his trademark.
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