Archive for the ‘sad song’ Category
“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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Identifying an O P Nayyar tune is easy for music buffs, but even music buffs will have difficulty believing that this song was composed by O P Nayyar.
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I had never heard this song before. I heard this song for the first time only just now. And what a song it is.
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I have posted half a dozen songs from “Baawre Nain” (1950) already and there are more to come.
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“Mughal e Azam” (1960) was a musical blockbuster and almost all its songs have gone on to become iconic songs. Though I have posted a few songs from this movie, I need to post all the songs from this movie.
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When I started this blog,remembering which songs I had posted and which were yet to be posted was easy in the beginning. One could remember it in one’s mind. But as the number of songs increased, I needed to keep track of them, because sometimes ( on two or three occasions) I repeated the same song. Thankfully some of my alert readers pointed this fact out to me, and I replaced the duplicated song with another song.
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One big reason why the songs of the golden era are still popular is the lyrics of these songs, which were meaningful and they in fact formed the soul of these songs.
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Badnaam muhabbat kaun kare
Posted on: October 8, 2009
Here is a very very old song from pre independence days when Noorjahaan still ruled the roost in Bollywood movie scene. Here is a song from a movie called “Dost” (1944). This song was very popular in its time.
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