Archive for the ‘stage dance’ Category
This post is written by Raja, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie songs and a regular contributor of write ups to this blog
In many of my posts I have talked about Rafi saab. And that is because I just love his voice. It goes straight to my heart. Apparently, from all accounts, he was also a simple, generous human being – and this only adds to the reason why I have extremely high regard for him.
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Ae meri maut thahar
Posted on: February 16, 2011
I am not much familiar with this movie called “Paayal” (1957) even though I have already discussed two songs from this movie in the past. This movie had Sunil Dutt and Padmini in lead roles.
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Thumak thumak chali Kaamini
Posted on: January 23, 2011
While looking for some other songs to discuss, I have come across this wonderful song about which I knew nothing. This song is from a forgotten movie called “Ek Do Teen” (1953). This movie had Motilal,Meena Shorey,Om Prakash,Indira Bansal,Majnu, Yashodhara etc in it.
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Jaago aur jagaao
Posted on: January 17, 2011
Qawwalis are normally the longest songs in Hindi movies. But sometimes stage songs also give qawwalis a run for their money as far as their duration is concerned.
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I am a big fan of Ravi. He is perhaps the only music director who was around when the golden era of Hindi movie music began to the time this era was finally gone for ever. His career began as a chorus singer in late 1940s,then he became assistant to Hemant Kumar (he was his assistant in “Naagin” (1954)) and then he became an independent music director with “Vachan” (1955). From then on till 1980s, he composed songs, many of which became so popular that they ended up becoming iconic songs. I in fact describe Ravi as a composer of iconic songs.
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“Half Ticket” (1962) was a laugh riot which continues to be a much loved movie even to this day among those who enjoy watching comedy movies.
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It is a very long song, which is one second short of 10 minutes long. And the song is so nice to listen to that these 9:55 minutes pass in a trice. Initially Asha Bhonsle sings the song and towards the second half of the song, Kishore Kumar makes a cameo appearance.
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Here is an awesome comedy cum romantic song from exactly 50 years ago. It is one song that richly deserves to be brought to the notice of Bollywood music fans.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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