Archive for the ‘Songs of 1968’ Category
“Aankhen” (1968) is a “Saagar Arts International” movie which was directed by Ramanand Saagar. This movie had Dharmendra, Mala Sinha, Mehmood, Madan Puri,Amarnath, Zeb Rehman, Kumkum, Sujit Kumar, Nazir Hussain, Jeevan, Sajjan, Hiralal, Daisy Irani, Parduram, Dhumal, A. A. Khan, Master Rattan, Lalita Pawar etc.
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Zindagi sehra bhi hai
Posted on: September 9, 2011
In this blog, we sometimes discuss songs that despite being great ones were excluded from the movie. And they we give vents to our feelings on the matter.
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“Hamsaaya” (1968) is a movie which had Joy Mukherji, Mala Sinha and Sharmila Tagore in it. As the title suggests, this movie had Joy Mukherjee in double role.One is Chinese and other in Indian. 🙂 Mala Sinha is the love interest of the Chinese Joy Mukherji while Sharmila Tagore plays the love interest of Indian Joy Mukherji.
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I tend to get confused a lot about the movies “Bahaaron Ke Sapne” (1967) and Bahaaron Ki Manzil” (1968). “Bahaaron Ke Sapne” is a Rajesh Khanna- Asha Parekh with R D Burman’s music whereas “Bahaaron Ki Manzil” (1968) have Dharmendra and Meena Kumari in lead roles and it has music by Laxmikant Pyarelal.
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Hindi movie music, especially of the golden era, is like a sea full of gems. Many of these gems are just lying around on the shores and one can keep stumbling upon them without even trying. But if one decides to consciously try and search deep, one can come up with some amazing songs that have been lying undiscovered for decades.
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Tu bemisaal hai
Posted on: August 16, 2011
This article is written by Raja, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
On the morning of the 14th of August 2011, a Sunday, when I casually checked Facebook, I expected to see the usual stuff. Typical (sometimes philosophical or witty) status messages or photos posted of a friend’s holiday trip.
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Raakhi kehti hai tumse bhaiyya
Posted on: August 13, 2011
This article is written by Sudhir,a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
The festival of Raksha Bandhan is being celebrated today in many parts of the country. A tradition as old as our culture itself, it is a significant celebration of the brother-sister relationship in our country. By tying a piece of colored auspicious thread on the wrist of her brother, the sister is wishing for his well being, good health and prosperity, and in return the brother is making a promise to protect her and her honor. It is a much loved festival, that occurs on the full moon day of the month of Saawan.
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This article is written by Sudhir,a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie songs and a regular contributor to this blog.
Starting with Dil Deke Dekho in 1959, Usha Khanna has been active in the Hindi film industry as a music director for more than fifty years now, During the 90s and the first decade, her assignments have been few and far between, but she continues to work. As per current information, the film “Khandala House”, for which she has composed the music, is complete and is awaiting release in 2011.
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Ye daaman ab na chhootegaa kabhi
Posted on: July 22, 2011
Most music directors have their own musical style and if one listens to the music of a song, one can often identify the music director.
But sometimes music directors may copy the musical style of other more established music directors. We have seen music directors copying the musical styles of O P Nayyar,Shankar Jaikishan etc in the past.
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