Archive for the ‘Stage song’ Category
Raat ka samaa jhoome chandrmaa
Posted on: July 15, 2009
I have posted a few songs from “Ziddi” (1964) already. This was a Shammi Kapoor type movie ( Joy Mukherji and Asha Parekh starred in it). One major difference in this movie from other Shammi Kapoor type movie was that the music director was S D Burman in this movie.
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Saari saari raat teri yaad sataaye
Posted on: July 7, 2009
I thought I had this song in my blog. But when I checked up, I realised that I had yet to post this song.
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When I select songs to be posted in a day, I ensure that they are of different moods, genres etc. And indeed this song is of a different mood from the other two. But I am surprised to know that all the three songs that I have posted so far have their music directors and lyricists in common. Madan Mohan is the music director and Rajinder Krishan is the lyricist in all these three songs.
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Tu husn hai main ishq hoon
Posted on: June 24, 2009
The songs of “Hamraaz” (1968) were all over the place in 1968. This movie was Mahendra Kapoor’s finest hour under the sun as a playback singer.
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Jawaani ki rail chali jaaye re
Posted on: June 19, 2009
Stumbling upon songs that I never heard before is nothing new for me. But it looks like this stumbling is something different. I have really stumbled upon a rich vein of old classics this time.
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What a comic genius Kishore Kumar was ! I have posted several Kishore Kumar gems where he sang and enacted superb comic scenes. Songs from “Adhikaar”, “Miss Mary”, “Half Ticket”, “Padosan” etc readily come to mind.
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Here is a stage cum dance song from “Zindagi” (1964), a movie starring Rajendra Kumar, Vyjyantimala and Raj Kumar.
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Apni adaa par main fidaa
Posted on: May 26, 2009
Here is a cute and lovely song from a 1953 movie called “Teen Batti Chaar Raasta”. In this movie Sandhya plays a domestic help who has a great singing voice.
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Here is another interesting song that I stumbled upon today.
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O beqadar bedardi
Posted on: May 18, 2009
I have mentioned it in the past that “Desh Premi” (1982) was one Manmohan Desai movie that I liked a lot. To my mind, it was a nice and entertaining movie.
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