Archive for the ‘“teasing” song’ Category
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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Daanton taley dabaa kar honth
Posted on: September 1, 2010
This post is written by Raja, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor of posts to this blog
Till 1974-75, when Rajesh Khanna’s movies began losing their appeal (for me at least), I was happy to watch any Rajesh movie for him alone. There was almost always at least one good song to enjoy in the movie. And very often more than one.
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“Ek Shrimaan Ek Shrimati” (1969) is a movie that has so many fantastic songs in it that I wonder why this movie is not all that well known. Considering how songs played major parts in the success of movies, this movie should have gone on to become a major hit on the basis of its music alone.
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In Hindi movies, we often have hero teasing the girl and the girl, after initial resentment falls for the guy, which to my mind is not really how it happens in real life.
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Wo chale jhatak ke daaman
Posted on: August 5, 2010
Rajendra Kumar during his heydays was a big star and he was in fact nicknamed “Jubilee” Kumar because his movies tended to be hits. It was an open secret that he aped Dilip Kumar’s acting style and mannerisms. Someone apeing the best and going on to have huge success is nothing new and we see it in so many fields of activities.
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In Hindi movies, boy and girl cannot get introduced in a nice and gentle manner. Their initial encounter must be abrasive, with the boy making passing at the girl and the girl not liking it a bit. A teasing song would follow, and somehow, by the end of the song, the girl would melt and begin responding to the advances.
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Bade hain dil ke kaale
Posted on: July 29, 2010
In Bollywood movies of 1950s and 1960s, we had “teasing” songs where the hero would tease the heroine, often too nastily in my view and get away with it, unlike how it is in real life in India, where “eve-teasing” is a serious offence.
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Mere peechhe ik deewaanaa
Posted on: July 27, 2010
I became aware of this song only because of a farmaish for this song.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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