Archive for the ‘Title song’ Category
Rajshri productions had hit upon a sureshot formula for success in the decade of 1970s. They would make movies for a small target audience who wanted to watch love stories full of nice songs and heartwarming plots. This was a winning formula because love stories by definition required new faces ( and as such Rajshri Productions saved money on hiring big name actors). In these movies, story and music were the real stars and Rajshri productions had built up a small loyal audience for their movies.
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Here is the title song of the Raj Kapoor movie “Aashiq” (1962). Like what was the case in his earlier movies viz “Aawaara” and “Chhaliyya”, this song from “Aashiq” serves as an introduction song as well, where the hero inroduces himself as the “Aashiq” and describes in good detail what are the things for which he is the “aashiq” (lover)
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Jab muhabbat jawaan hoti hai
Posted on: April 6, 2009
In the long list of Rafi-Shammi Kapoor songs, this song must be the last such song. This is because this song is from “Jawaan Mohabbat” and this movie was released in 1971. This was the last movie in which Shammi Kapoor played the kind of role that had become his hallmark for the entire decade of 1960.
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Saaranga teri yaad mein
Posted on: April 3, 2009
The first time I listened to this song was in 1975 at about 6-30 pm in the evening in Vividh Bharati.
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I have heard this song many a times. Knowing who the singer was no problem, and knowing that the song was from “Mere Huzoor” was no problem too, but that is all I knew about this song.
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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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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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