Archive for the ‘Showdown song’ Category
Jahaan teri ye nazar hai
Posted on: March 20, 2009
“Kaalia” (1980) was one of the last Amitabh Bachchan movies in which R D Burman gave music. The music of this movie was quite popular.
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Ham premi prem karna jaanen
Posted on: February 8, 2009
Here is a typical showdown song between brothers, that was fairly common in Bollywood movies featuring Amitabh Bachchan in 1970s. In this song, Amitabh Bachchan and Vinod Khanna are the two bothers and they sing this song in a party called by their parents. Shammi Kapoor plays their father in this movie.
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In movies, we often have musical showdowns, where two singers are pitted against each other.
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Muqaabla hamse na karo
Posted on: December 22, 2008
This song pits Vyjyantimala, a professionally trained classical dancer ( arguably the best ever female classical dancer in Bollywood history- notwithstanding Padmini, Hema Malini,Jayaprada, Meenakshi Sheshadri etc) with Helen, the best known cabaret dancer in Bollywood movies. And Shammi Kapoor has the envious task of acting as the adjudicator.
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“Mera gaon Mera Desh” was the most well known “daaku” movie before “Sholay” came about. In fact, “Sholay” is inspired in parts by “Mera Gaon Mera Desh”.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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