Archive for the ‘Separation song’ Category
Aasmaan se door taaraa ho gayaa
Posted on: May 19, 2011
“Darogaa jee” (1949) is a movie that had Jairaj (playing the title role),Nargis,Neelam Mishra,M L Bohra, Nisaar etc in it.The movie has been forgotten, but that has not stopped me from discussing as many as two songs from this movie in the past.
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Mere chandaa mere nanhe
Posted on: May 16, 2011
When one watches a movie which is particularly powerful and deals with human suffering, I for one cannot bear to watch it. Forget watching such movies, I find myself unable to watch the relevant songs from such movies as well.
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Do dil toote do dil haare
Posted on: April 13, 2011
I became aware of the movie “Heer Ranjha” (1970) in 1974, while going through movie magazines, which incidentally were supposed to be out of bounds for school kids barely in their teens. 🙂 But I was a kid who loved reading all kinds of publications, including screenplays of movies too. Yes, those days screenplays of movies used to get published too. I read screenplays of “Bobby” (1973) and “Aasheerwaad” (1968). I never watched these movies and I never thought that I missed anything by not watching them, that is how vivid the screenplays used to be.
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Ek thhaa bachpan
Posted on: April 12, 2011
This article is written by Sudhir,a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie songs and a regular contributor to this blog.
There are many songs in the movies that are for the children, and many of them are sung by children. Then there is another set of songs wherein bachpan (childhood) is being bid a goodbye and there is a welcome to youth, of the ilk “Ja Ja Ja Mere Bachpan, Kahin Jaa Ke Chhup Nadaan” from movie ‘Junglee’.
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How do I decide upon the songs to be discussed on a particular day ? It depends on several factors. On special days, I may decide to discuss special songs. Those special days are festivals, birth/death anniversaries etc. On those days, I discuss songs on a particular theme, or songs on a particular artist.
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Tere bin saawan kaise beetaa
Posted on: April 5, 2011
“Jab Yaad Kisi Ki Aati Hai” (1967) is a movie starring Dharmendra and Mala Sinha. The movie apparently did not do well at the box office.
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Shamaa se koi kah de
Posted on: March 15, 2011
Golden era of Hindi movie music saw a plethora of musical talents that enriched Hindi movie music with their contribution. It is not that only big name artists contributed, even those artists who struggled to get opportunities and who worked in so called B grade movies also contributed their mite. some of them in fact deserved to getmany more assignments than what they finally ended up with.
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Koi roke usse aur ye kah de
Posted on: March 7, 2011
The more I listen to the songs of “Sindoor” (1947), the more interested I am to find about this movie. Unfortunately I have not been able to find any meaningful details about this movie.
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Throughout the world, there have been tragic love stories that are simply known by the name of the lovers- viz Romeo Juliet, Laila Majnu etc. In Punjab, there have been not one or two, four four such love stories. The most well known of them is “Sohni Mahiwal”. The second most well known must be “Mirza Sahiban”.
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Saajan ki galiyaan chhod chaley
Posted on: March 3, 2011
I am aware of two movies called “Baazaar”. One was released in 1949 and another in 1982.
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