Archive for the ‘Stage song’ Category
Naache ghodaa naache ghodaa
Posted on: February 12, 2010
Till recently, scoring centuries of songs took me just a fortnight. But now I have slowed down considerably. My previous century (song number 2101 to 2200) took me one month. Even that was much faster than my present century. Yes, this song is song number 2300 for this song, and it has taken me a tortoise like two months and a half to reach from 2201 to 2300 !
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I have been posting the songs of “Sargam” (1950) here these days. It is while posting these songs that I am discovering these songs for the first time. What wonderful songs these are ! And I am also surprised at the number of such songs. There are at least a dozen such songs, and all of them just mind boggling. And it is just as mind boggling to realise that this movie has been forgotten today.
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Sooni sooni saans ke sitaar par
Posted on: January 11, 2010
It was pointed out recently to me that I had not posted any songs from “Laal Patthar” (1971). I too am surprised because I was under the impression that I had posted at least one song fom this movie.
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Bol ri kathputli
Posted on: January 3, 2010
I have posted a few songs from “Kathputli” (1957) in the past. Here is the title song from this movie.
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I have posted a song from “Bahaar” (1951) in the past. That song was the well known song “Sainyaa dil mein aana re” which was sung by Shamshad Begam and picturised on Vyjyanti Mala.
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“Badaltey Rishtey” (1978) was released to a lukewarm response and the movie did not do well at the box office. Of course there is no correlation between a movie’s box office performance and its production values. The story of this movie was different from the usual “dhishum dhishum” stuff of those days. From what one can see from the title of this movie and from the songs, this movie was a story on a love triangle or something similar where Reena Roy have two suitors competing for her.
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Though boy and girl falling in love and singing love songs is a standard theme in Bollywood movies, such an activity is not as easy to carry out in real life India as is made out in Bollywood movies. Most real life lovers have to carry out their love lives on the sly , away from the family and public lives.
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I had posted one song from “Basant” (1942) where nine year old Madhubala (then known as Baby Mumtaz) is shown singing a song. What a rare find that was for Bollywood movie buffs !
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Ae baandi tum begam bano
Posted on: October 28, 2009
I have mentioned earlier that the original “Parineeta”, viz “Parineeta”(1953) had some lovely songs in it, though they have been forgotten by now.
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In this blog, I post gems from the golden era of Bollywood movie music, which happened to be roughly from 1950 to 1980, though I have posted songs that are from the times falling outside this era as well. Many of the songs that I have posted are well known even today, while many other songs that I have posted have become forgotten. I particularly love to post those songs which were very popular during their time but which may not be known to too many people today.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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