Archive for the ‘Theme song’ Category
It is difficult to imagine how Mukesh (of dard bhare naghme fame) would sound on Mehmood (known for loud comedy). Well, stereotyping aside,we actually have instances of Mukesh singing for Mehmood.
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Chaand ko dekho ji
Posted on: August 29, 2010
There are people who preach us to save for a rainy day. If you talk to me about saving for a rainy day,I will reel off the list of songs picturised on a rainy day to try and prove that rainy days are as much fun as sunny days. If one does not save for a sunny day, then why should one do so for a rainy day ? One should instead enjoy rainy days by getting drenched in the rain instead of hiding indoors. Next thing you know, the same people may ask us to save for a moonlit night saying that nights are for going to bed !
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Dil se dil takraaye
Posted on: August 27, 2010
When you are young, you only like to listen to “modern” songs and hate listening to old songs calling them boring. Here is a song that was old even by my standards of 1970s when I was growing up. But show me a song that could be more modern than this by now 51 year old song.
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This review is written by Santosh Ojha, a relatively new visitor of this blog and a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music
Two songs from this movie have already been posted on this blog, and Atul has gone public with his negative views on the movie. He found the movie too contrived, too silly even. Maybe he has a point of view, but may I present the alternate view.
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Hothon pe sachchaayi rehti hai
Posted on: August 23, 2010
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This is a song from “Jis Desh Mein Ganga Behti Hai” (1960) whose farmaish was given to be posted as a patriotic song on the occasion of the independence day.
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Aankhon aankhon mein baat hone do
Posted on: August 13, 2010
In early 1970s, Hindi movie songs were becoming daring and we had many songs in those days where the lyrics were far too direct and to the point, instead of beating about the bush.
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I thought that I had already posted the title song of “Yakeen” (1969) in this blog. But I was mistaken.
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Samjhautaa ghamon se kar lo
Posted on: July 24, 2010
This title song/ theme song from “Samjhauta” (1973) has gone on to become an iconic song. I was under the impression that I had posted this song already, but farmaishes from several readers made me realise that I had not posted this song so far.
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Raat aur din diyaa jale
Posted on: July 24, 2010
Here is a very well known title song from a reasonably well known movie. The movie is “Raat Aur Din” (1967) and the song is “Raat aur din diyaa jale”.
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I was aware of a movie called “Haseenon Ka Devtaa”, but now I realise that there was another movie called “Gunaahon Ka Devtaa” (1967). This movie “Gunaahon Ka Devtaa” (1967) had Jeetendra and Rajshree in lead roles.
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