Archive for the ‘Sentimental song’ Category
Tere mere sapne ab ek rang hain
Posted on: August 1, 2010
“Guide” (1965) is a landmark movie in more ways than one.Its music was ethereal, and the industry insiders (singers, lyricists, music directors etc) voted this movie as musically the best Hindi movie of all times. Listening to the songs of this movie, one can see why. The songs of this movie has cast a magical spell over its listeners right from the time they became available some 45 years ago, and that magic spell continues even today, even across generations.
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Main shaayar badnaam
Posted on: July 31, 2010
While posting songs from the golden era of Bollywood movies, I have tended to concentrate more on the songs of 1950s and 1960s, even though I grew up with songs of 1970s. Just like we these days lament about the quality of Bollywood movie songs today and cite old Bollywood movie songs as the epitome of quality, the same lament was heard even in 1970s. Even I was under the impression that the quality of music in 1970s was not what it was in the earlier years. Now of course I can have a hearty laugh at my own expense with the benefit of hindsight.
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Ae dil tujhe qasam hai
Posted on: July 29, 2010
I have not posted a song featuring Madhubala for quite song time now. Here is one such song from her earlier days.
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Jaayen to jaayen kahaan
Posted on: July 28, 2010
I was under the impression that I had posted this song long back, but as is usual with me, I was wrong. I was reminded through farmaishes for this song that I needed to post this song.
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Sakhi ri likh de piyaa kaa naam
Posted on: July 25, 2010
I have been posting songs from “Saarangaa” (1960) these days. All these songs are wonderful songs to listen to.
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Chali jaa chali jaa chali jaa
Posted on: July 25, 2010
In this blog, I post many well known songs from the past, but I get the most satisfaction when I post lesser known songs that very few people know about.
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I was aware of a movie called “Haseenon Ka Devtaa”, but now I realise that there was another movie called “Gunaahon Ka Devtaa” (1967). This movie “Gunaahon Ka Devtaa” (1967) had Jeetendra and Rajshree in lead roles.
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“Sheesham” (1952) is by now a forgotten movie. This movie had Nasir Khan, Nutan, Kuldeep , Gope etc in lead roles.
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I have been posting the songs of “Banarasi Thug” (1962) these days and I have posted as many as 6 songs from this movie already.
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Khaamosh kyun ho taaron
Posted on: July 14, 2010
Recently I stumbled upon the songs of “Alif Laila” (1953) and found that this songs were wonderful to listen to.
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