Archive for the ‘Songs of 1960s (1961 to 1970)’ Category
I love you you love me
Posted on: September 7, 2011
“Raat Andheri Thhi” (1967) is a B grade movie about which very little is known these days. Theinformation that I have been able to gather about this movie tells me that this movie had Feroz Khan, Sheikh Mukhtar, Lolita Chaterjee & Helen in it, which makes it an archtypical B grade movie of the 1960s. These movies had Sheikh Mukhtraa playing the same kind of roles that would later be played by amitabh Bachchan in this angrey young man movies. Sheikh Mukhtar would use his bulky figure for strongarm tactics, and he would leave the task of singing and dancing to the chocolate faced side hero of the movie, which happens to be Feroz Khan in this movie.
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“Teasing” songs where the hero teases the heroine while singing a roadside Romeo genre of song is not quite my cup of tea, especially when the hero is someone like Rajendra Kumar. But I am prepared to condone such teasing when the hero is someone like Shammi Kapoor or Kishore Kumar. Who said that I am impartial in my likings of actors. 😀 Yes,I am objective and impartial in my likings only when it comes to singers, not actors. 🙂
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Raat raat bhar jaag jaag kar
Posted on: September 7, 2011
“Pyaar Ka Saagar” (1961) is a movie starring Rajendra Kumar and Meena Kumari. Rajendra Kumar was on his way to become Jubilee Kumar while Meena Kumari has already graduated to tragedy roles by that time.
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“Apna Bana Ke Dekho” (1962) is a movie which has Manoj Kumar, Asha Parekh, Achala Sachdev, Sundar, Nazir Husain etc in it. Though I have not explored the songs of this movie, I am sure that this movie has some nice songs in it
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“Shankar Khan” (1966) is a B grade movie about which very little information is available. What I know is that it was a Dara Singh movie produced by Dara Singh himself. This movie had actors like Prithviraj Kapoor, Dara Singh, Randhawa, Jagirdar, Kammo, Pratima Devi, Mohan Choti, Jagdeep, Rajan Kapoor, Savita etc in it.
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“Bees Saal Baad” (1962) is a timeless classic, moviewise as well as music wise. Four well known songs from this movie have been discussed in this blog in the past.
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I tend to get confused a lot about the movies “Bahaaron Ke Sapne” (1967) and Bahaaron Ki Manzil” (1968). “Bahaaron Ke Sapne” is a Rajesh Khanna- Asha Parekh with R D Burman’s music whereas “Bahaaron Ki Manzil” (1968) have Dharmendra and Meena Kumari in lead roles and it has music by Laxmikant Pyarelal.
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Tum ho haseen kahaan ke
Posted on: September 6, 2011
Though I already knew about the better known songs of “Sharaabi” (1964), I have become aware of a few more songs of the movie recently.
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“Chitralekha” (1964) has some superb songs in it. As many as five songs from this movie, including most well known songs, have already been discussed.
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