Archive for the ‘Songs of 1960s (1961 to 1970)’ Category
I was under the impression that I had posted this song from “Teesri Kasam” long back. So I was very suprised on being informed that this song was not yet posted.
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“Aakaashdeep” (1965) is a movie that had some very nice songs in it. I have already posted three songs from this movie.
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I have been posting songs from “Banarasi Thug” (1962) these days. This is a movie that was a B grade movie, but what songs this movie had !
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khuli khuli zulfon ko baandh bhi lo
Posted on: July 12, 2010
I have recently stumbled upon the songs of “Banarasi Thug” (1962) and I have posted a couple of songs from this movie.
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“Banarasi Thug” (1962) was a B grade movie with Manoj Kumar and Vijaya Chaudhary in lead roles. The movie was B grade, but there were so many underemployed talented music directors those days that movie makers had no trouble getting A grade music composed even in B and C grade movies.
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Paayal waali dekhnaa
Posted on: July 10, 2010
Kishore Kumar is mainly associated with light hearted fun songs, though he has sung great songs in all genres including serious songs. It is a well known fact that Kishore Kumar was a natural singer, who had not taken any training in classical music, unlike most other leading singers. In fact,this lack of classical training was often taken to mean by music directors that Kishore Kumar could not sing such songs. I can recall at least one occasion where Manna Dey’s voice was used for Kishore Kumar the actor for a semi classical song situation. 🙂
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“Banarasi Thug” (1962) is not a movie that I knew much about. I began to search for the songs of this movie after I was told by a reader (Veena Seth) that the songs of this movie are missing from the blog.
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I have posted a few songs from “Shamaa” (1961) in the past. This movie was the second last movie for Suraiyya and she sang some memorable songs in this movie, as well as in her last movie (“Rustam Sohrab”).
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Aapse pyaar huaa jaataa hai
Posted on: July 9, 2010
I was under the impression that Suraiyya’s singing-acting career was over in 1950s, but she also had a few movies released in 1960s. It is another matter that her best days were behind her by that time.
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Pardesiyon se na ankhiyaan milaanaa
Posted on: July 8, 2010
I think I need to create another artificial category of songs, viz. “songs that I thought were already posted but I was wrong” category.
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