Archive for the ‘Songs of 1960s (1961 to 1970)’ Category
Dilip Kumar, whose birthday falls on 11th December, was married to Saira Bano in 1966. At that time, he at the age of 44, was exactly twice the age of Saira Bano.
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One of my major sources of discovering “new” songs is the farmaishes that I get from my readers. These farmaishes have enabled me to enrich my knowledge of old movie songs considerably and that has enabled me to share those gems with my readers.
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“Badaa Aadmi” (1961) is a by now forgotten movie. It was a B grade movie with lesser known actors like Sheikh Mukhtaar, Vijaya Chaudhary etc in it.
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“Satyakaam” (1969), which was a critically acclaimed movie that failed at the box office, had some nice songs in it which have sadly been forgotten with time. And there are people like me who never heard the songs of this movie, despite living though that era.
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Abhi kyaa sunoge suna to hansoge
Posted on: December 8, 2010
Dharmendra and Sharmila Tagore, who share their birthday (8 october) also shared the screen space together in several movies. One of these movies was “Satyakaam” (1969).
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Tum jaao kahin tumko ikhtiyaar
Posted on: December 8, 2010
I am told that 8 december is the birthday of not one but two actors. Yes, both Dharmendra (DOB- dec 8, 1935) and Sharmila Tagore (DOB 8 dec 1946) were born on this date.
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Raat bhi hai kuchh bheegi bheegi
Posted on: December 6, 2010
“Mujhe Jeene Do” (1963) is a movie with a moving message. It was about the lives of bandits. What lies in store for the bandits who want to get reformed and join the mainstream of society, with same hopes and aspirations for their kids like normal people ? This movie is a moving picturisation on this issue.
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In the olden and golden days of Hindi movies,great music was created not only in mainstream A grade movies, but also in lower budget B grade movies. There was a glut of talented music directors and even low budget movie producers were in a position to hire high class music directors.
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Balmaa maane naa
Posted on: December 4, 2010
“Opera House” (1961) was a B grade movie starring Ajit, B Saroja Devi, K N Singh, Maruti, Niranjan Sharma,Baalam etc. Many of the so called B grade movies of those days are indistinguishable from A grade stuff, except for low budget. And as far as the music of these movies were concerned. The music was invariably A grade.
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Duniya hanse hansti rahe
Posted on: December 2, 2010
Here is a song that was highly popular during its time when I was an impressionable kid in my pre teens. For a change, I knew which movie this song was from. This song was the title song of “Ganwaar” (1970). The voice of Rafi was unmistakable.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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