Archive for the ‘Title song’ Category
When one talks of the movie “Saajan”, the 1989 movie of this name come to the mind of people which was a musical blockbuster.
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When one listens to this song, and finds out that Shankar Jaikishan are the music directors and Hasrat Jaipuri the lyricist, then one can safely assume that this Rafi song is picturised on Shammi. And indeed, I have thought so about this song for more than four decades. It indeed seems to fulfil all the ingredients that one had in a Shammi Kapoor movie.
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During 1970s, when I would try to tune radio Ceylon on wednesday night between 8 PM to 9 PM, tuning to the desired station was not as easy as it is for TV stations. There were so many radio stations on the same 25 metre band and getting a clear reception of Radio Ceylon, while avoiding voices of Voice of America, BBC etc was quite an art.
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“Milan”, a 1967 movie was a runaway hit as far as the movie and its music was concerned.
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Bombay to Goa
Posted on: February 16, 2009
“Bombay to Goa”(1972) which had a gawky looking Amitabh Bachchan playing hero was carried on the shoulders of Mahmood, and other comedians.
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This is a song which very much contains the name of its movie as well. Yes, “aaja tujhko pukaare mere geet” is a song from “Geet”. And as iconic songs go, this song is as iconic as they come.
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Patthar ke sanam
Posted on: February 12, 2009
There are many well known songs, names of whose movies are often unknown. That is unlikely to happen with this song since this song “Patthar ke sanam” is also the title of the movie.
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Music director Ravi deserved much more credit than he actually received as a music director. I have mentioned it in the past that a large number of iconic songs from Bollywood movies are his creations. Just name the subject, and he has an iconic song or two on the subject.
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When one listens to old song, one needs to have some appreciation of history, otherwise one tends to judge old songs by present day standards and thus he/ she may do grave injustice to old songs while making hasty judgements about them.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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