Archive for the ‘sad song’ Category
So jaa mere pyaare so jaa
Posted on: December 3, 2009
“Lori” (Lullaby) is a much loved category of song. Most popular lories of Bollywood movies were created in 1950s and 1960s.
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Madhubala and Dilip Kumar were a popular pair in Bollywood movies for much of the 1950s. they were infact romantically involved with each other during that period too.
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I love posting old songs in this blog. Here is a song that is old even by the standards of this blog. This song is from “Laal Haweli” (1944). Those were the days when the actors sang their sons themselves and the recordings were often live.
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Is bewafa jahaan ka
Posted on: November 27, 2009
A lot of old songs from the golden era of Bollywood music were created by lyricists and Music directors who went on to become legends. But they were not the only ones who were creating great music. There were others who were just as talented but who got limited opportunities to show their talent.
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Bollywood movie songs of 1940s are of considerable importance and interest, because the singing legends of later decades were taking their first tentative steps in their singing careers at that time. For instance, Rafi was just two movies old as a playback singer when 1947 began. In 1947, he sang in “Do Bhai” and “Jugnu”. The “Jugnu” song-“Yahaan badla wafaa ka bewafaayi ke siwaa kyaa hai” proved to be the first major hit of his singing career.
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In 1950s and 1960s, there were some songs where kids would ask a lady to tell them a story and the lady would sing a sad song. In the song, she would tell the kids about her own sad story. I had posted such songs here from “Gumrah” and “Lajwanti” , where Mala Sinha and Nargis sing such songs.
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Wo paas bhi rahkar paas nahin
Posted on: November 21, 2009
When I was young, I disliked old songs, and I would only listen to new songs, which meant songs of 1970s. But now I cannot have enough of old songs, viz songs of 1950s and even earlier. In fact, I love the music of the songs in these songs.
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“Teesri Kasam” (1966) was a labour of love created by Shailendra. It had some lovely songs in it which were penned by Shailendra himself, excepting two. This song is one of the two songs that have been written by Hasrat Jaipuri.
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Jab se pi sang nainaa laage
Posted on: November 8, 2009
Ever since Bollywood movies came into being, gossiping about the movies personalities and about their controversies have been a major activity of movie magazaines and other such publications. Often, some author would write something about some person purely from his fertile imagination and that would then become gospel for all times to come.
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I have posted three songs from “Baadal” (1951) in the past. Here is another lovely song from this movie.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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