Archive for the ‘Songs of 1970’ Category
Ik tera sundar mukhda
Posted on: April 20, 2009
I was aware of a movie called “Bhai bhai” released in 1940s, but I never knew that a movie of the same name was made in 1970 too. This 1970 movie must have done really poorly at the box office to be so unknown.
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Tum apni saheli ko
Posted on: April 17, 2009
Prem Chopra was an actor who is “fondly” remembered for playing roles of a villainous smooth operator always lusting after the heroine.
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Phoolon ke rang se
Posted on: April 16, 2009
One reason why many old songs ( 1970s and earlier) are popular is of course to do with nice music in these songs. Moreover, the music directors ( there were many outstanding music directors at that time) recognised the value of lyrics. And they would wait for lyricists to write their songs.
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Iktaara boley kuchh kahe wo tumse
Posted on: April 13, 2009
Manoj Kumar was a movie maker who would make movies with simplistic messages telling India was good, west was bad ( Purab aur paschim), Villagers were good, city folks were bad ( Upkaar ) etc. In this connection, here is this movie “Yaadgaar” (1970) where Manoj Kumar continues to shove his ideals down the throats of public.
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Hrishikesh Mukherji watched a Japanese movie in a film festival and he was so influenced by that movie that he made it into a Bollywood movie called “Anand”(1970) which won critical acclaim and was liked by moviegoers as well. In fact, Hrishikesh Mukherji was so enamoured by this theme that he himself remade his own remake into “Mili”.
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Chhod bedardi aanchal
Posted on: April 3, 2009
Here is another song which I heard a lot in my young days, and liked it, before this song got forgotten.
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Wo tere pyaar ka gham
Posted on: March 31, 2009
I have not posted a Mukesh sad song for quite some time. To make amends, here is one such song.
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Dil aaj shaayar hai
Posted on: March 19, 2009
I have mentioned earlier that Dev Anand outlived his stay as a leading man in Bollywood movies. as a result, many stories with great ideas flopped just because Dev Saab insisted on playing the hero in those movies. In fact, legend has it that Prakash Mehra had wanted to cast Dev Saab in “Zanjeer”. Dev Saab liked the role, but he wanted Prakash Mehra to sell him the story so that he could make this movie in his own way ( and hopefully add one more flop to his CV). Thankfully Prakash Mehra refused and the rest, as they say, is history with Amitabh Bachchan playing that role.
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This is a song that I have heard many a times, but I never knew this movie it was from and who were the people behind the creation of this song.
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