Archive for the ‘Songs of 1960s (1961 to 1970)’ Category
Jiske sapne hamen roz aate rahe
Posted on: June 20, 2009
I have listened to this song many a times, and I liked this song, but all these days I had no idea which movie this song was from.
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Jitni haseen ho tum
Posted on: June 20, 2009
Rafi was not only gifted with a divine voice, he was also a very humble and considerate individual. He would help out struggling music directors and would sing for them virtually for nothing. And he would give his best to these songs. There are countless Rafi songs sung for anonymous music directors which were picturised on forgotten/ forgettable actors. Quite a few of these songs are very nice and hummable songs.
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Suno sajna papeehe ne
Posted on: June 20, 2009
Laxmikant (of Laxmikant Pyarelal) played this song when he presented Vishesh Jaimala programme on Vividh Bharati in 1970. From the lyrics, it can be seen that it is indeed the title song of the movie, but all these days I was not aware of this fact.
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Kis liye maine pyaar kiyaa
Posted on: June 19, 2009
I tend to know only a few popular songs from most movies. As a result, I often miss out on knowing about some very fine songs, just because they were lesser known songs from their movies.
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Ghairon pe karam apnon pe sitam
Posted on: June 19, 2009
There have been many movies called “aankhen” beginning from the 1950 movie of this name, to one in 1968, and then two more, one in 1990s and another in 2000s.
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Aaja piyaa tohe pyaar doon
Posted on: June 19, 2009
“Bahaaron ke sapne” (1967) was one of the first movies of Rajesh Khanna. In fact, it was the first Rajesh Khanna movie that tasted some box office success ( his earlier two movies “Aakhri Khat” and “Raaz” were damp squibs) and thus his career as an actor took off in Bollywood .
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“Tajmahal” (1963) was a musical blockbuster and its songs had swept classes and masses off their feet in 1963. This movie was the pinnacle of Roshan’s career. In fact, 1963 was a year in which Roshan was at the peak of his career. Several of his movies released this year were musical blockbusters.
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Gar tum bhula naa doge
Posted on: June 18, 2009
“Yakeen” (1969) is not remembered much today, but as was the case with almost every mainstream movie of those days, this movie had some nice music in it.
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Mythological movies of Bollywood tended to be C grade movies in Bollywood and they, like stealth bombers escaped the radars of mainstream movie audiences almost entirely.
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Haay tabassum tera
Posted on: June 17, 2009
I was not aware of this movie called “Nishaan” (1965) . Now I have come to know that it was Sanjeev Kumar’s first movie as hero.
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