Archive for the ‘Songs of 1960s (1961 to 1970)’ Category
This post is written by Raja, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie songs and a regular visitor of this blog
There is rarely an excuse required in Hindi movies for a song. Birthday or wedding celebration parties (with the ubiquitous piano), the “tribal” dance scenes, club dances, hero-heroine scenes out in beautiful natural surroundings, the pining scenes and the mujra scenes – these are all well-established occasions waiting for a song to happen.
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Khanke kangnaa bindiyaa hanse
Posted on: July 27, 2010
“Dr. Vidya” (1962) is a movie which had some nice songs in it, but I have so far only posted one song from this movie.
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Mere peechhe ik deewaanaa
Posted on: July 27, 2010
I became aware of this song only because of a farmaish for this song.
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Roothe hon sanam to phir kyaa hai
Posted on: July 26, 2010
In Hindi movies, “roothna” (sulking) is the preserve of females, and it is the male of the species who has to indulge in the act of “Manaanaa” (appeasement). I have posted many such songs like this in this blog, but it never occured to me to have a separate category for such songs.Now I have thought of this category called “sulking-appeasing song”.
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Raat aur din diyaa jale
Posted on: July 24, 2010
Here is a very well known title song from a reasonably well known movie. The movie is “Raat Aur Din” (1967) and the song is “Raat aur din diyaa jale”.
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I have mentioned in the past that the Bollywood movies of the past used to have their get togethers not in hotels, but in their palatial houses that every hero/ heroine used to possess. Their palatial house used to have a big hall for the purpose of these get together. And in these occasions, the hero/ heroine was required to sing a song. A grand piano was kept in the hall near the big staircase (that led to the upper floor)for the purpose of this song. The hero/ heroine, after initial nakhra, would get seated on the piano and then sing a song accompanied by music.The music incidentally would bear little resemblence to the music that normally comes out of a grand piano.
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Chham chham naachat aayi bahaar
Posted on: July 24, 2010
“Chhaaya” (1961) was a movie starring Sunil Dutt and Asha Parekh. And like most movies of those days, this movie was a musical blockbuster. I have posted three songs from this movie already, and more songs from this movie need to be posted.
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“Priyaa” (1970) is a movie that is not remembered much today, but this movie had a couple of songs that were quite popular those days. I remember those songs with fondness and so do others who lived in those days.
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Here is a song from “Punar Milan” (1964). “Punar Milan” (1964) was a B grade movie and the makers of this movie saved money as far as hiring artists was concerned. Considering the talent available on the music scene, hiring talented out of work music director was not a problem, but hiring a lesser actor like Jagdeep as the hero of this movie proved counter productive.
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O chhaliyaa re chhaliyaa re
Posted on: July 23, 2010
In my bid to clear the backlog of old farmaishes, here is a song whose farmaish was given by Raja more than one year back. Apart from my usual excuses for not being able to post it earlier (too many songs to be posted, I am too lazy etc), locating the video link of this song was a problem too. Now that I have been able to locate this song and I am trying to clear the backlog of farmaishes, here is this song from “Ganga Jamuna” (1961).
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