Archive for the ‘Songs of 1960s (1961 to 1970)’ Category
Sajna mera dil tera dil gayaa mil
Posted on: July 6, 2010
In Bollywood movies, the main theme of the story is love between the lead actors. One variant of this theme in 1960s was love affair between a doctor and a nurse. “Dil Apna Aur Preet Paraayi” (1960) is a movie on this theme that readily comes to mind. Here Meena Kumari, the nusre has a one sided crush on Raj Kumar, the doctor.This movie and this theme must have appealed to the movie makers, because a few more movies like this followed in its wake.
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Ek samay par do barsaaten
Posted on: July 5, 2010
In Bollywood movies, most songs are lip synced on screen by actors. But there are some songs that are played on the background and the actors on the screen are not required to lip sync these songs. I have posted quite a few songs of this nature. All these days, I failed to realise that I should categorise these songs as background songs.
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How many of us have heard of this movie called “Jhoola” ? I had not, and I guessed that a movie by this name must be from early 1950s, since this title rhymed with titles of those days, viz “Mela”, “Jhamelaa” etc.
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“Shrimaanji” (1968) is a movie whose songs were too elusive to locate for me all these days. Finally they seem to have become available and I was able to post one song from this movie.
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I have posted many songs from “Mamtaa” (1966) by now, but I still keep discovering “new” songs in this movie. Here is another “new” song (for me) though it is not new for others like my regular visitors and farmaish senders.
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“Mamtaa” (1966) is a movie that is full of great songs. I have posted four songs from this movie, and here is another song.
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It is one of those songs that everyone likes, but few people know the details of the song, apart from the obvious fact about the name of the singer.
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In Bollywood movies, getting drunk and singing drunkard song was considered the preserve of males (viz Devdas etc). Ladies getting drunk and making a spectacle of themselves was a strict no no.
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Vikal moraa manwaa
Posted on: June 23, 2010
These days I am on a drive to clear the backlog of old farmaishes pending with me. One such farmaish is for this song from “Mamtaa” (1966).
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