Archive for the ‘Theme song’ Category
This article is written by nahm, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
When I saw the list of songs remaining to complete the score of films in this blog, given by our own in house encyclopedia, Deshmukh Sir, I was actually thrilled that one song from ‘Asli Naqli” was remaining. The song in question is “Laakh chhupaao chhup na sakegaa raaz ho kitna gehraa” is something I am familiar with and very fond.
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Golmaal hai bhai sab golmaal hai
Posted on: April 17, 2012
It is often said that Hindi movie stories have little resemblance with real life, because real life stories always differ from the reel life depicted in movies. Still there are occasions when some occurrences in one’s real life may remind you of some movie.
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“Taqdeer” (1967) was a Rajshree Productions movie about a family that gets separated from its sole breadwinner (Bharat Bhushan) and lives without him. Bharat Bhushan, presumed dead comes back many years later and finds himself a stranger in his own home. It was a moving tale which was nicelty picturised. The songs of this movie captured the essense of the movie wonderfully well.
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Ye nazdeekiyaan
Posted on: April 10, 2012
This song has quickly become an earworm with me right from the time I was sent the lyrics of this song a few days back. So much so that today this song was playing in my mind even when I was in the process of discussing other songs for the day.
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Kehne waale tu bhi keh le
Posted on: March 26, 2012
- In: Asha Bhonsle songs | Blog century song | Century songs for the blog | Lyrics by Ava Suri | Lyrics contributed by readers | Manna Dey songs | qawwali | Rafi songs | S Balbir song | Song sung by three or more singers | Songs of 1960s (1961 to 1970) | Songs of 1964 | Theme song | Title song | Yearwise breakup of songs
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The makers of “Qawwali Ki Raat” (1964) had a tough task ahead of them. They were required to make a movie along the lines of “Barsaat Ki Raat” (1960).
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Lo ek kali muskaayi
Posted on: March 26, 2012
“Ek Kali Muskaayi” (1968) was a Panch Deep Chitra Production. It was directed by Vasant Joglekar. The movie had Joy Mukherjee, Meera Joglekar, Ashok Kumar, Mehmood, Om Prakash, Nirupa Roy, Lalita Pawar etc in it.
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Mere soone jeewan ka aasraa hai tu
Posted on: March 22, 2012
- In: Asha Bhonsle solo | Asha Bhonsle songs | Century songs for the blog | Feelings of heart | lullaby | Lyrics by Prakashchandra | Lyrics contributed by readers | Lyrics contributor century song | Songs of 1960s (1961 to 1970) | Songs of 1966 | Theme song | Title song | Yearwise breakup of songs
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This blog, which began as a one man show has by now become a multiple contributor bandwagon of likeminded music lovers. With time, we now have several contributors who have begun to achieve their own landmarks of century and multiple century marks.
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Hongkong China Mina Singapore
Posted on: March 13, 2012
“Hongkong” (1962) was produced and directed by A S Pachchi. The satrcast included Ashok Kumar, B Saroja Devi, Helen etc. This movie was one of the first movies that treated Indian movie goers to the sights of foreign locations, which was then a novelty in Hindi movies.
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Waqt se din aur raat
Posted on: March 9, 2012
“Waqt” (1965) was a movie that like most B R Chopra movies rewrote the rules of the game. This movie was a multistarrer movie at a time when this term was not even coined. This term as well as the concept would be made use of in Hindi movies ten years later in “Sholay” (1975) and other movies.
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- In: expression of love | Feelings of heart | How come this song was not posted earlier | Lata solo | Lata song | Lyrics by Khyati Bhatt | Lyrics contributed by readers | Multiple version song | Rafi solo | Rafi songs | Songs of 1960s (1961 to 1970) | Songs of 1963 | Theme song | Title song | Yearwise breakup of songs
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Today (14th february) is Valentine’s day and regulars may have wondered why we in ths blog did not discuss any songs on this occasion. Well, I thought that most songs in Hindi movies are in any case “expression of love” songs, so we in this blog in any case discuss such songs everyday. So for this blog everyday is Valentine’s day.
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