Archive for the ‘Songs of 1960s (1961 to 1970)’ Category
Singer is Mukesh, lyricist is Shailendra and composers are Shankar Jaikishan. One may be forgiven to think that it must be a song picturised on Raj Kapoor. But no, this is a song from “Hariyali aur Raasta”, a movie featuring Manoj Kumar.
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“Johny Mera Naam” was a musical blockbuster. Just about every song from this movie became very popular. I have already posted one song from this movie. Here is another very popular song from this movie.
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This is a song from “Son of India”, which was a movie of 1962 and it had one very popular song called “Nanha munha raahi hoon main desh ka sipaahi hoon”. This movie had other popular songs as well.
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Je hum tum chori se
Posted on: November 9, 2008
I have posted many Mukesh solo songs in this blog, and most of them were “sad” songs of different denominations and varieties. This particular song is a duet, and moreover, it is not a sad song. So here is a Mukesh song, sung with Lata from “Dharti Kahe Pukaar ke” that can surely qualify to be called a gem.
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Choodi nahin ye mera dil hai
Posted on: November 9, 2008
With this song, I introduce a new tag viz “choodi” song. The word “choodi” dominates this song. In this song, Dev Anand and Zaahida are seen seated behind a car, with our ageless Dev Saab singing this song “choodi nahin mera dil hai dekho toote naa”.
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Aasmaan se neeche
Posted on: November 8, 2008
Ever since I started following Bollywood movies, I have been hearing that Bollywood songs basically show Hero and Heroine running around trees. All these days I was curious to see one such song.
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The movie “Padosan” was a laugh riot. The movie was a musical blockbuster too. Apart from the by now legendary ” mere saamne waali khidki mein” “ek chatur naar”,this movie had other hummable songs as well and these songs have their fan following too.
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Babul pyaare
Posted on: November 8, 2008
This movie had an ageing ( read already aged) Dev Anand paired against the rising star Hema Malini. The movie turned out to be a hit. The story line was quite engrosing and the movie was shot in exotic places like Nepal and elsewhere.
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Manna Dey was an outsider as far as singing mainstream songs were concerned. Unlike other singers, he was reduced to singing unusual songs viz songs for lesser characters in the movie, viz comedian etc. Difficult songs, unlikely to get popular with lay public viz semi classical songs were also given to him to sing. In fact, many of such semi classical songs were included in the movies to provide comic relief.
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