Archive for the ‘Theme song’ Category
Badraa chaaye..aaya saawan jhoom ke
Posted on: July 15, 2010
In western cultures, only one day in the spring season , called Valentine’s day is dedicated for love. In Indian culture , on the other hand, an entire season, viz the rainy season is the season of love. It did not begin with the advent of Bollywood movies. Even in ancient Sanskrit novels, for instance in Kalidas’ “meghdoot”, we find the rainy season described as the season when there is love in the air.
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Main joru ka ghulaam banke rahoongaa
Posted on: July 5, 2010
I have posted a song from “Joru Ka Ghulaam” (1972) where Rajesh Khanna was the lead actor. Another movie of the same name was released in 2000, and guess who was the lead actor in this movie ? It was Twinkle Khanna, daughter of our beloved Kaka.
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Jeenaa kyaa aji pyaar binaa
Posted on: June 11, 2010
Just like we these days lament the deterioration in the quality of Bollywood music, people used to lament about such deterioration even in the past. I personally thought that many of the songs of 1970s were pedestrial and chaalu songs. But now with the passage of time, when I came across far worse songs, then I realised that the so called poor songs of 1970s were gems in comparison.
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Few people, including me have heard of this movie called “Apna Ghar Apni Kahani” (1968). This movie had come in an era when we had a glut of classy songs, and I do not recall ever listening to songs of this movie. Not that I could have been able to identify the songs as belonging to this movie, had I heard the songs then.
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Bhoole se muhabbat kar baithaa
Posted on: April 23, 2010
I have posted a few songs from “Dil Hi To Hai” (1963) in the past. But the title song/ theme song of the movie is not one of them.
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Mera joota hai Japani
Posted on: April 12, 2010
I have posted over 2400 songs in this blog already. I just realised that the iconic song “Mera Joota Hai Japani” is not yet posted. I will not call an oversight. In fact, it is a tribute to the quality and quantity of awesome songs that one can post so many songs and still many more great songs would still be left undiscussed.
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Satyam Shivam Sundaram
Posted on: March 15, 2010
This title song of “Satyam Shivam Sundaram” has at least two versions. The song itself is quite popular to this day. Its picturisation is another matter. The critics those days panned Raj Kapoor for using this movie to show Zeenat Aman’s body at every opportunity, which in the view of the critics was against the Indian ethos.
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Dil deke dekho dil deke dekho
Posted on: November 22, 2009
When one thinks of Shammi Kapoor, one invariably thinks of Rafi, Hasrat Jaipuri and Shankar Jaikishan. There are many people who in fact may well think that they were together with Shammi Kapoor right from the beginning of Shammi Kapoor phenomenon.
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“Aap Aaye Bahaar Aayi” (1971) was a musical blockbuster where every song from the movie was extremely popular. In fact these songs remain popular to this day.
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Ham panchhi ek daal ke
Posted on: October 22, 2009
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After India became an independent nation in 1947, nation building began in the right earnest. Movies too reflected it, and many movies of that era talked about nation building, and also about the values and aspirations of the newly independent nation.
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