Archive for the ‘Songs of 1960s (1961 to 1970)’ Category
“Ehsaan” (1970) is a movie that was released during the time when R D Burman gale force had had gathered momentum. Most movies with popular songs those days tended to have music by R D Burman. So is the case with “Ehsaan” (1970).
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“Nai Roshni” (1967) is a litle known movie, despite being a relatively “recent” movie by the standards of this blog.This movie had Ashok Kumar, Raj Kumar, Mala Sinha, Asit Sen, Pahadi Sanyal, Biswajeet etc in it.
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Phir teri kahaani yaad aayi
Posted on: December 15, 2011
“Dil Diya Dard Liya” (1966) is an archtypical Dilip Kumar movie. At least that is how it appeared to me when I became aware of this movie in my younger days. This movie was being shown in an open space in my colony for free. Young kids like me and my friends , after suffering through the movie for almost half the lenth of the movie, could take it no more and decided to call it quits. “What is all this pyar vyaar, rona dhona, why cannot the hero indulge in some maar dhaad instead”, our leader wondered aloud, and the rest of the kids whole heartedly agreed.
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There were three top heroes in Hindi movies in 1950s. Of them, viz. Raj Kapoor expired in 1980s and Dev Anand just a few days back. One of them, viz Dilip Kumar is still around. He in fact is celebrating his 89th birthday today. He was born on 11 th december 1922 in Peshawar,now in Pakistan. He made his debut in Hindi movies with “Jwaar Bhata” (1944) and his made his mark as a hero with “Jugnu” (1947) and soon he became a hot property in Hindi movies and earned him the sobriquet of “Tragedy king”. It is not an accurate description, becuase he has worked in several light hearted movies as well.
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Main teri nazar ka suroor hoon
Posted on: December 11, 2011
I have discussed as many as five songs from “Jahaan Ara” (1964). There are more nice songs in this movie and every one of them needs to be included in the blog.
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Guzre hain aaj ishq mein
Posted on: December 10, 2011
“Dil Diya Dard Liya” (1966) is one of the first “old” movies that I became aware of as a pre teen kid, and my impression about old movies being melancholic stuff was mainly based on this movie, its songs and also its title.
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Most movies of the olden days had great music. In fact, music served as a major attraction for movie goers. There were many movies that became hits mainly because of the music.
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Mat jaiyyo naukariyaa chhod ke
Posted on: December 8, 2011
“Do Badan” (1965) is a J B Films presentation. This movie was directed by Raj Khosla. The star cast had Manoj Kumar, Asha Parekh, Pran, Dhumal, Simi Garewal, Mohan Choti, Manmohan Krishna, Wasti, , Huda Bihari, etc in it.
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Teri zulfen pareshaan
Posted on: December 7, 2011
“Preet Na Jaane Reet” (1966) is a Moviestan presentation. It was directed by S Bannerji. The star cast included names like Shammi Kapoor, B. Saroja Devi, Siddhu, Nazir Hussain, Parveen Choudhary, Minoo Mumtaz, Dhumal,Shammi, Randhir, Johnny Walker etc.
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