Archive for the ‘sad song’ Category
Bada bedard jahaan hai
Posted on: August 31, 2009
In Bollywood movies, Maa often plays an important role. And there have been many such songs in movies sung by Maa.
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When it comes to picturising melancholic songs, Guru Dutt was just the person. For someone who started out his career playing happy roles, his transformation into a melancholic person, in reel as well as real life, must make for an interesting case study from a psychiatric point of view.
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I had posted a remarkable comedy song from “Bandi” (1957) which was sung by Kishore Kumar and picturised on hmself. Now I find that this movie has a great serious song too, once again sung by Kishore Kumar and picturised on himself.
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Chaand kabhi thaa baahon mein
Posted on: August 23, 2009
Here is an obscure song from an obscure movie with some obscure names.
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We have seen songs picturised on Raj Kapoor that were sung mostly by Mukesh, but sometimes by other playback singers as well. For example, there were occasions when Rafi, Manna Dey, Talat Mehmood etc have sung for Raj Kapoor. In fact, in a few early movies, Raj Kapoor sang for himself !
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Bijli giri kahaan se
Posted on: August 20, 2009
Among lesser known music directors, S Mohinder will always occupy a pride of place. He did not get too many opportunities to show his ability, but he made the most of whatever little opportunities he got as a music director.
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I have been posting songs from “Vidya” (1948) over the past few days. It was interesting to note that this movie was full of lovely emorable songs that are nice to listen to even today.
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Obscure songs from obscure movies are not necessarily run of the mill songs, as I have discovered time and again. In fact, while listening to forgotten movies from many of these obscure movies, I have stumbled upon gems.
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Main kaun hoon kyaa hoon
Posted on: July 27, 2009
Kishore Kumar, who made his singing debut in 1948 with “Ziddi”(1948) soon became an actor-singer too. In 1950s, he began to come into his own in this role.
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I have been posting songs from “Aag” (1948) for the last few days. In this series, here is another 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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