Archive for the ‘Songs of 1960s (1961 to 1970)’ Category
Hum bechaare pyaar ke maare
Posted on: November 2, 2012
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Imagine that you reached someplace where a song is playing, probably on a radio. But unfortunately it seems you have missed almost the entire song. What you hear as you get into listening range is just the last one or two lines playing. The words you hear do not seem to be part of the main song lyrics. And the words you hear do not seem to make a coherent sentence. You may just skip the thought and move on. Or if you are more Hindi-film-music inclined, you would start to wonder what the song was and who would have been the singer of this song, of which you have heard just a snippet.
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Teri patli kamar teri baali umar
Posted on: October 31, 2012
“Dus Lakh” (1966) was a Goel Cine Corporation movie. It was produced and directed by Devendra Goel. The movie had Sanjay Khan, Babita, Pran, Helen, Manorama, Om Prakash, Ramesh Deo, Seema, Parvin Paul, Master Ripple, Baby Sonia, Bramhachari, Hari Shivdasani, Shefali Chowdhry, Mool Chand etc in it.
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This article is written by Shekhar Gupta, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
A year before she arrived at the zenith of playback singing with Aayega aane waala in Mahal (1949), a still-teenage Lataji vocalized her first ghazal – the mind-blowing Dil-e-naashaad ko jeene ki hasrat ho gayee tumse under the baton of Hansraj Bahl in Chunariya (1948). Her superb rendition of this none-too-easy a number with expression, enunciation and mastery on its many murkis in all octaves is just breath-taking.
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Aaj udta hua ek panchhi
Posted on: October 29, 2012
“Gehra Daag” (1963) was a Ralhan Productions movie. It was produced and directed by O P Ralhan. The movie had Rajendra Kumar, Mala Sinha, Ratnamala, Usha Kiran, Madan Puri, Mumtaz, Tuntun, Lalita Pawar, Ragini, Bupet Raja, Moppet Shahid, Manmohan Krishna, Bihari, Ram Mohan, Sunder etc in it.
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Bartan kalai karaa lo
Posted on: October 29, 2012
One post in two days is considered good enough for most blogs, but not this one. 🙂 There was one post yesterday and none so far today and that is slow going by the standards of this blog where six to seven songs a day is the norm.
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“Chitralekha” (1964) was a Pushpa Pictures presentation. It was directed by Kidar Sharma. The movie had Ashok Kumar, Pradeep Kumar, Meena Kumari, Bela Bose, Minoo Mumtaz, Shobhana, Achla Sachdev, Altaf, Zeb Rehman, Mehmood etc in it.
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Sun chaand meri ye daastaan
Posted on: October 27, 2012
“Naag Jyoti” (1963) was a Swastik Films Production. It was directed by Shantilal Soni. this B grade mythological movie had Mahipal, Anita Guha, Sunder, Ratnamala, Rajen Haksar, Khurshid etc in it.
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Ae jaane bahaaraan jaan e karam
Posted on: October 26, 2012
“Jahaan Pyaar Miley” (1969) was an L R T Productions movie, where L R T stood for Lekh Raj Tandon, who produced as well as directed this movie. The movie had Shashi Kapoor, Hema Malini, Helen, Badri Prasad, Zeb Rehman, Iftekhar, Naaz, Anjali Kadam, Nazir Hussain, Nadira, Kamal Kapoor, Jeevan, Sulochana, Narendranath, Pinchoo Kapoor etc in it.
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Aaj dil pe koi zor chalta nahin
Posted on: October 25, 2012
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This musical bandwagon continues to roll on unabated (touchwood !) and we continue to pass milestones at regular intervals.
Century of songs is the most basic and common kind of milestone for this song. In the earlier days of the blog, we just counted the number of songs posted in the day and every 100th song was a cause for celebration.
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Aaj ki raat sajan mann chaahe
Posted on: October 25, 2012
Today (25 october) is the birthday of Aparna Sen. She acted in just a few Hindi movies, but she went on to become a legendary actress in Bangla movies.
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