Archive for the ‘“teasing” song’ Category
Gusse mein jo nikhraa hai
Posted on: December 16, 2010
I have been discussing the remaining songs of “Dil Hi To Hai” (1963) these days. In this series here is the ninth song from this movie.
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Balam mohe chhedo naa
Posted on: December 15, 2010
In Hindi movies, we have songs where the hero teases the lady and then there are songs where the lady
tells him (half seriously) not to tease her. Here is a song that I believe must rank among the best teased songs of all time.
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Sainyya chhod de bainyya
Posted on: November 1, 2010
In Hindi movies, we have teasing songs that are typically sung by male actors. I just realised that if there is a teaser, then there has to a a teased as well. and there are songs sung by teased as well. the teased lady would typically sing a song with words like “chhodo meri kalaayi”, “koi dekh legaa” etc etc.
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Main keh doon tum ko chor
Posted on: October 18, 2010
Playful romantic songs, especially those that are picturised on a pair of actors who were actually romantically involved always makes for good listen/watch. Dev Anand and Suraiyya were one of the first such on screen couple.
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Dekho maane nahin roothi haseenaa
Posted on: October 9, 2010
Sometime back, I had tried to find out the names of playback singers who have sung for Dev Anand in Hindi movies. And I found that there have been several such singers and not just the usual names.
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Tujhe dil ki baat bataa doon
Posted on: October 7, 2010
“Picnic” was a very popular word in India in 1960s and 1970s. People, who could afford it used to go to some far off places during weekend or holidays to relax. They would play some games there, have their meals their and then they would come back. This in short was what was a picnic.
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Aag lagi tan man mein
Posted on: September 19, 2010
In “Aan” (1952) stern faced Nadira played the female lead opposite Dilip Kumar. This movie had several songs in it. The songs sung by Male voice has been lip synced by Dilip Kumar but the female songs are mostly sung by maid servants of Nadira and not by Nadira herself.
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This post is written by Raja, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor of posts to this blog
A lot of actors have some mannerism or “trademark” that tends to be their distinguishing feature. It could be a style of dialogue delivery, it could be the way they shake their head, it could be the way they walk.
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Ye jawaani hai deewaani
Posted on: September 10, 2010
In the golden era of Hindi movie music, songs played a very important role in the success of the movies. In fact, many of the actors, especially male actors owe their success to the singing of the leading male singer of the time.
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I am not much clued in on the movie “House No. 44” (1955). This movie had Dev Anand and Kalpana Kartik in lead roles.
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