Archive for the ‘sad song’ Category
Dard kyun uthhtaa hai dil mein
Posted on: April 27, 2011
“Birhaa Ki Raat” (1950), which is an obscure movie by now, had actors like Dev Anand, Nargis, Madan Puri, Snehprabha Pradhan, Omprakash etc in it. Dev Anand and Nargis paired together ? I never knew that a movie like this existed.
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Do dil toote do dil haare
Posted on: April 13, 2011
I became aware of the movie “Heer Ranjha” (1970) in 1974, while going through movie magazines, which incidentally were supposed to be out of bounds for school kids barely in their teens. 🙂 But I was a kid who loved reading all kinds of publications, including screenplays of movies too. Yes, those days screenplays of movies used to get published too. I read screenplays of “Bobby” (1973) and “Aasheerwaad” (1968). I never watched these movies and I never thought that I missed anything by not watching them, that is how vivid the screenplays used to be.
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Main gaaun tu chup ho jaa
Posted on: April 8, 2011
Though I am familiar with V Shantaram’s movie “Do Aankhen Baarah Haath” (1957), I have not watched this movie and I am not aware of all its songs, except the better known songs. I was not aware of this song.
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“Niraalaa” (1950) is a movie starring very young Madubala and Dev Anand. And this movie also has some superb songs sung by a very young Lata under the music director of her mentor C Ramchandra.
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Saajan ki galiyaan chhod chaley
Posted on: March 3, 2011
I am aware of two movies called “Baazaar”. One was released in 1949 and another in 1982.
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Lut gayi ummeedon ki duniyaa
Posted on: March 1, 2011
“Jal Tarang” (1949) is a forgotten movie which starred Rehman, Geeta Bali and a dog. Like the movie, its songs too are forgotten.
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When I was growing up as a kid in late 1960s and early 1970s, I noticed that old movie makers tended to give their movies the same title as the titles of new movies. 🙂 When radio announcer announced songs from “Andaaz”, “Aankhen”,”Aarzoo”,”Adaalat”, “Parwarish” etc, I expected to listen to songs from the newer movies of 1960s and 1970s and I was very upset when the songs played were from old movies of 1940s and 1950s, which were boring by my definition.
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Chaley ranz dekar
Posted on: February 21, 2011
Here is a song that I had never heard before. Of course there is nothing new in that. There are so many songs that I have never heard before.
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Mukesh was brought to Bombay (now Mumbai) in late 1930s by Motilal (a distant relative) who had seen him singing a song at Motilal’s sister’s wedding. While at Bombay, Mukesh got the opportunity to act and sing in a movie called “Nirdosh” (1941). This movie also had Nalini Jaiwant.It is interesting to note that Mukesh first acted in movies in 1940s, whereas his grandson (Neil Nitin Mukesh) is acting in movies more than six decades later. Read the rest of this entry »
Bahe ankhiyon se dhaar
Posted on: February 7, 2011
I have mentioned it several times that I keep stumbling upon unheard of gems almost on a regular basis.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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