Archive for the ‘“teasing” song’ Category
In Hindi movies, most activities are carried out according to a set piece pattern, and that included songs as well. Teasing songs, romantic songs, expression of love song, all of them seem to follow some well laid down guidelines.
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Pyaar milega jab na kahin
Posted on: September 25, 2011
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
The 1967 film, ‘Woh Koi Aur Hoga’, is a production under the banner of Amrit Kala Mandir, and is directed by A Shamsheer. The films is an action drama with a star cast that includes Feroze Khan, Mumtaz, Sohrab Modi, Dhumal, Asit Sen, Meenakshi and Sham Kumar. The primary singing voice is that of Mohammed Rafi, with interleaved expression of annoyance and exasperation by Mumtaz. The lyrics are by Asad Bhopali, and the music is composed by Usha Khanna.
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Angdaayi teri hai bahaanaa
Posted on: September 11, 2011
“Rattan” (1944) was a movie that was musically a major milestone for Hindi movie music. The music of this movie served as a major trendsetter. The music of this movie was based on folk music, as against classical music. This ensured that movie goers, who were exposed to such music in their day to day life, were able to identify with this kind of music better. And just how well did the public identify with the music ! The music of this movie became super duper hit. Naushad became a rage, and other music directors too jumped on the bandwagon of folk music based songs.
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Among all the genres of songs that one can have in Hindi movies, rail songs are a genre that is quite fascinating. The rail songs are in fact a very interesting topic and I had done a long and deailed discussion on rail songs where I had discussed some 30 odd songs in my by now almost defunct blog.
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Maine kahaa Miss what is this
Posted on: September 8, 2011
“Mitti Mein Sona” (1960) is a movie starring Pradeep Kumar and Mala Sinha. For some reason, the songs of this movie are not easy to come across. It is music lovers’ loss because this movie has some awesome songs in it.
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Meri padosan hai dil ki dushman
Posted on: September 7, 2011
“Simla Road” (1969) is a quintessential B grade movie which was forgotten almost as soon as it was released. This movie had Dev Kumar and Sarita in lead roles. Dev Kumar later found himself playing roles of villain’s henchman, whereas Sarita vanished from movies without a trace.
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“Teasing” songs where the hero teases the heroine while singing a roadside Romeo genre of song is not quite my cup of tea, especially when the hero is someone like Rajendra Kumar. But I am prepared to condone such teasing when the hero is someone like Shammi Kapoor or Kishore Kumar. Who said that I am impartial in my likings of actors. 😀 Yes,I am objective and impartial in my likings only when it comes to singers, not actors. 🙂
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Tum ho haseen kahaan ke
Posted on: September 6, 2011
Though I already knew about the better known songs of “Sharaabi” (1964), I have become aware of a few more songs of the movie recently.
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Jaao jee jaao dekhen hain bade
Posted on: August 31, 2011
“Sharaabi” (1964) is a movie that had Dev Anand and Madhubala in lead roles. But despite their presence, and despite some nice music, the movie failed at the box office.
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Apne bhaiyya ko naach nachaaoongi
Posted on: August 21, 2011
“Bandhan” (19408), though over seven decades old has songs that sound fresh and contemporary to me even to this date. And for that one has to admire the creators of these songs who created such timeless classic.
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