Archive for the ‘Songs about a place’ Category
Ye Bombay shahar ka badaa naam hai
Posted on: May 19, 2009
In Bollywood movies, we often have songs about places, viz cities, towns etc. Out of all these cities, there have been quite a few songs on Bombay. For instnace, “ae dil hai mushqil jeena yahaan, zara hatke zara bachke ye hai Bombay meri jaan” is still regarded as a song that aptly describes Bombay ( now Mumbai).
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Bombay to Goa
Posted on: February 16, 2009
“Bombay to Goa”(1972) which had a gawky looking Amitabh Bachchan playing hero was carried on the shoulders of Mahmood, and other comedians.
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Main Bambai ka babu
Posted on: February 12, 2009
In Bollywood movies, singing songs is traditionally the preserve of lead actors. Lesser actors rarely got to sing. But there were exceptions.
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Iint ki dukki pan ka ikka
Posted on: February 5, 2009
We have had quite a few songs talking about Bombay. But there have been few songs talking about other major cities.
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Till 1960s,when India was in terrible shape on almost all fronts,and Indians depended on foodgrain imports even to feed themselves, it was the Prime minister Lal Bahadur Shastri who decided that India needed to be self sufficient in growing food stuffs. He also gave a slogan “Jai Jawan Jai Kissan”.
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Har chehra yahaan chaand
Posted on: January 8, 2009
I have been discussing Bollywood songs for the last several months. Most of these songs were composed by big established names. But there were a few songs that were created by less known music directors.
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I have mentioned it earlier that “Mera Saaya” was full of outstanding Lata-Madan Mohan songs that have gone on to become immortal evergreen songs. But pray which of “Mera Saaya” songs became the most popular those days? It was none of these Lata songs, or even the Rafi one.
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Kashmir ki kali hoon main
Posted on: December 27, 2008
Till recently I thought that this song “Kashmir ki kali hoon main” was the title song of “Kashmir ki kali”. Only when I began to research this song that I realised my ignorance. It is indeed a Shammi Kapoor song, but from “Junglee” and its music was by Shankar Jaikishan (“Kashmir ki kali” had its music by O P Nayyar).
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While watching very old movies, one big attraction for me is to watch how places looked like in those days. It is especially for this reason that I watch movies of 1950s and earlier.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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