Archive for the ‘sad song’ Category
“Prem Nagar” (1974) was a movie where the reigning male superstar and the biggest female star were brought together in the same movie for the first time. Perhaps the hype was too much, or may be the contents were not good enough. Whatever the reasons, this movie failed at the box office despite the presence of Rajesh Khanna and Hema Malini.
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Mili khaaq mein muhabbat
Posted on: January 28, 2009
It is difficult to believe it now, but both Guru Dutt and Meena Kumari actually used to play happy roles when they began their acting careers. It was sometime in late 1950s that both began to act in sad roles and they both got typecast into such roles so much that their past roles were soon forgotten.
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Shaam e gham ki kasam
Posted on: January 28, 2009
The movie called “Footpath” (1953) may not ring a bell, but this movie had some very nice music.
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Madan Mohan not only got the best out of Lata, he did that with other singers as well. In fact, he had the knack of getting the best out of every singer he worked with, because he had the ability to guage the range of the singer’s voice and he would tailor his music accordingly. Thus we have singers as varied as Lata, Rafi, Kishore Kumar, Mukesh,Talat Mahmood, Asha Bhonsle, Bhupinder etc singing some of their most memorable songs under Madan Mohan.
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Jab bhi ye dil udaas hota hai
Posted on: January 23, 2009
I have heard this song “jab bhi ye dil udaas hota hai” quite a few times in the past and I have liked it too. It is an ideal song when you feel sad, as the song says.
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Katate hain dukh mein ye din
Posted on: January 21, 2009
I have read a lot about this song, but it is only now, 58 years after this song was composed, that I have finally listened to this song. After listening to it twice, I must say that I am quite impressed.
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“Do Raaste” was full of great songs of different moods. Most of the songs were happy songs, full of song and dance.
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Most of the movies where Madan Mohan gave music failed at the box office, but when it comes to their music, music of even these flop movies became popular. In fact, a large number of songs composed by Madan Mohan have gone on to become classics.
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Laakhon taaren aasmaan mein
Posted on: January 12, 2009
I have listened to this song many a times. This song is regarded as an evergreen Mukesh-Lata duet. This song is from “Hariyali aur raasta”. I have already posted two songs (which are equally evergreen) from this movie in this blog.
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Here is another sad song sung by Mukesh. This song is from a movie called “Saheli”. The song was written by Indeewar and Kalyanji Anandji were the music directors.
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