Archive for the ‘Title song’ Category
Banda parwar thhaam lo jigar
Posted on: April 30, 2012
This article is written by nahm, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
As I see in the “some stats” page, Lyricist poet Majrooh Sultanpuri has 525 songs in the blog, which is the highest so far for a lyricist in the blog. The word “Majrooh” could not have been his real name. It is the “takkhallus” (Pen name) of the poet. “Majrooh” means injured/pained or a someone broken hearted and in pain. Others may have a different view of this words meaning, but I hate to go to online dictionaries to find meanings of urdu words. I would rather go by the feel.
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Gumnaam hai koi
Posted on: April 29, 2012
Here is yet another song of the genre “How come this song was not discussed before !”. Read the explanations that I have given for other songs of this genre why this song was not discussed earlier. 😉
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Kitne bhi tu kar le sitam
Posted on: April 21, 2012
I was at Jabalpur when this blog was started. After about 18 months later, I shifted to another -pur in another state and I was based there for two years. Now I have shifted to yet another -pur in yet another state.
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Kaun apna kaun paraaya
Posted on: April 21, 2012
“Kaun Apna Apna Paraaya” (1963) was a Golden Films Production movie. It was produced by Tony walker (Johny Walker’s brother) who also starred in the movie as Hero under the name of Vijay Kumar. Niranjan directed the movie. The movie had Waheeda Rehman, Vijay Kumar, Johnny Walker, Nirupa Roy, Tun Tun, Amar, Shammi, Dulari, Hammad, Sham Kumar, Dilip Dutt, Laxmi, Nasreen, Saudagar Singh etc in it.
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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
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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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