Archive for the ‘Songs of 1960s (1961 to 1970)’ Category
Ae mere dil teri manzil
Posted on: May 13, 2009
I have become a big fan of music director Ganesh. He was the younger brother of Pyarelal ( of Laxmikant Pyarelal music director duo) and he was an amazingly talented music director on his own. It is unfortunate that Ganesh did not get many opportunities to showcase his talent. But whatever little opportunitiies he got are enough to establish his credentials.
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“Aankhen” (1968) begins with its its title/ theme song as the credits roll in. This song, sung by Rafi is quite a soul stirring song, one that rouse passions. Sahir Ludhianvi has written this song. His brief was to write a song on “Aankhen”, and he came up with this amazing song.
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“Aankhen” appears to be a very popular title for a Bollywood movie. The debut movie of Madan Mohan was called “Aanken” and in the last one decade or so, we have had two movies by this name- one starring Govinda and another one starring Amitabh Bachchan.
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Tum agar saath dene ka waada karo
Posted on: May 11, 2009
Mahendra Kapoor was one singer who was a B R Chopra loyalist and he was the male playback singer of choice in all the movies made by B R Chopra’s banner.
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We have armchair critics in all fields, be it sports, driving, movies, and even singing. And often, the ignorance of these critics could be mind boggling.
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Dekha hai sabhi ne chaand ko
Posted on: May 9, 2009
In 1960s, Shammi Kapoor was the expert when it came to “teasing” ladies. Other aspiring heroes tried to ape Shammi Kapoor, but they hardly looked in the same league as a teaser.
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Aa gale lag jaa mere sapne mere apne
Posted on: May 9, 2009
When I was a kid, wearing a swimming costume used to be a big deal for Bollywood actresses. Wearing such costumes was considered against the Indian culture and was considered tantamount to exposing. Thus we used to read interviews from virtuous actresses saying that they would never wear such revealing dresses in their movies.
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Parda uthe salaam ho jaaye
Posted on: May 9, 2009
Manna Dey was one singer, who despite his ability, was typecast as a singer for bit actors. There were very few movies where he got to sing for the hero. But whenever he got such a chance, he came up with some superb songs.
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Jaane kaisaa hai mera deewaana
Posted on: May 8, 2009
I think I should have a new tag for those songs that were very popular in my younger days but I had no clue about the details of these songs. I would love to listen to these songs, only to forget all about them with passage of time. I have been re discovering those songs again now a days. There are several such songs, as I keep mentioning in my posts.
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Paayal ki jhankaar raste raste
Posted on: May 8, 2009
Here is a spectacular song from “Mere Lal”. It is the song that has Laxmikant Pyarelal’s stamp all over it. It was sung by Lata and the song was written by Majrooh Sultanpuri.
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