Archive for the ‘Songs of 1960s (1961 to 1970)’ Category
Dulhan Chali O pahan chali
Posted on: January 26, 2009
Here is yet another nationalistic song from a Manoj Kumar movie. The movie is “Purab Aur Paschhim” and the song is “Dulhan chali”.
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Top priority task before India in 1950s was building roads, bridges, and dams. In 1960s, the nation realised that becoming self sufficient in food stuffs was even more important. And thus came the Lal Bahadur Shastri’s slogan -“Jai Jawan Jai Kisan” (Hail the soldier, hail the farmer).
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There are people who like to go to party. What exactly do they do in the party ? If they are like the party goers in Bollywood songs, most of them just stand like statues when the hero is hogging the limelight, singing a song. Except hero, everyone else seems discomfited. Even the heroine is not at ease, because the contents of the song are either praising her or cursing her, and in either case, she feels mightily embarrassed.
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Chaman ke phool bhi
Posted on: January 25, 2009
In Bollywood movies, only hero and heroine seem to have tender feelings seeing that only they get to sing romantic songs. Villains on the other hand seem to have hearts made of granite and they do not have any tender feelings of love etc.
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Madan Mohan not only got the best out of Lata, he did that with other singers as well. In fact, he had the knack of getting the best out of every singer he worked with, because he had the ability to guage the range of the singer’s voice and he would tailor his music accordingly. Thus we have singers as varied as Lata, Rafi, Kishore Kumar, Mukesh,Talat Mahmood, Asha Bhonsle, Bhupinder etc singing some of their most memorable songs under Madan Mohan.
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This song appears quite a women’s lib song to me, at least by Indian standards. The song shows Tanuja singing this song which basically means that flower has blossomed in the garden , but the bees have not yet arrived.
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I had once wondered what I would do if I run out of all Rafi-Shammi songs. Then I realised that I need not worry. In case I have no more Rafi-Shammi songs to listen to, I always had the option of listening to the songs picturised on Shammi Kapoor clones. And these songs sounded just as good. There was Joy Mukherjee ( similar in appearance to Shammi Kapoor ans sometimes nearly as good) and there was also Vishwajeet ( smaller built and therefore described as poor man’s Shammi Kapoor).
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Tujhe sooraj kahoon ya chandaa
Posted on: January 24, 2009
Most Bollywood movies have make believe story lines that have little resemblence with real life. But then, there come some movies which are so life like that one is bound to fall in love with these movies. One feels happy when the protagonists are happy and one is sad when tragedy strikes them.
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Mere sang gaa gungunaa
Posted on: January 24, 2009
“Jaanwar” had many wonderful songs, which are very popular and well known even today.
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Jeewan dor tumhi sang baandhi
Posted on: January 24, 2009
Laxmikant Pyarelal used to get C grade movies viz mythological movies, stunt movies, religious movies etc, when they began their career as music directors. we have seen many music directors who remained confined to such movies throuout their careers without graduating to the mainstream movies.
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