Archive for the ‘Songs of 1970s (1971 to 1980)’ Category
Pukaaro mujhe phir pukaaro
Posted on: December 9, 2012
“Buniyaad” (1972) was a Pragati Chitra International movie. It was produced and directed by Virendra Sharma. the movie had Shatrughan Sinha, Farida Jalal, Yogita Bali, Rakesh Roshan, Bindu, Faryal, Pran, Jankidass, Sajjan etc in it.
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Tera phoolon jaisa rang
Posted on: December 8, 2012
“Kabhi Kabhi” (1976) was a movie that I became aware of when its title song began to play on radio. I found the title song quite antiquated in its tune. Those were the days when anything not sung by Kishore Kumar or not composed by R D Burman was regarded as old by me. I found that the music of this movie was composed by someone called Khayyam. and that is how I became familiar with this name.
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Today (8 december) is the birthday of Dharmendra as well as Sharmila Tagore. Seeing how pressed for time we all are, it is always a good idea to discuss a song that features both of them.
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When one looks at the songs picturised on Dilip Kumar, one finds that Dilip Kumar, for much of his career had lip synced mainly in the voices of Talat Mehmood, Mukesh and Rafi. In addition, he had also sung in the voices of G M Durrani and C Ramchandra. Then he had sung for himself as well in a few songs.
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This article is written by Arunkumar Deshmukh, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Just the other day I wrote in the comments,” ALL that is produced after 1970 in Hindi Films is not bad as much as ALL that is produced before 1970 is not good”. My reference was to the overall quality of films, like story, acting, comedy or music etc.
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Hoon kaun chhoon
Posted on: December 6, 2012
This article is written by Arunkumar Deshmukh, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
You must have heard the famous quotation,”Politics is the last resort of a scoundrel”. Though it is not true in ALL cases,it is used since long.
Similarly, the last resort of young boys who ran away from homes to Bombay in the 30s and 40s (and may be even today) was Hindi Films. For a growing Film industry there was a need for actors, singers, writers, technicians etc. Quantity was always available but quality was questionable. This field did not attract the educated gents from good families. So, whenever any educated i.e. a Graduate joined the industry, he was most welcome and he too would flaunt his degrees proudly. Thus you had a Lyricist named Moti,B.A. and Miss Kamal,B.A. in those days.
Aay haay teri bindiya re
Posted on: December 4, 2012
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This article is written by Raja, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
It is perhaps the inability of our times to distinguish between the “good” and the “great”, the “noteworthy” and the “legendary”, the “impressive” and the “brilliant”, that leads us to use the latter of the two adjectives in each case in far greater measure, and for far more modest achievements than would have been approved of by an earlier generation. Or maybe it is just our laziness, or our tendency to exaggerate, that leads us to our use (or abuse) of the English language in this manner.
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“Kalabaaz” (1977) was a Pashupati Pictures (Pvt) Limited production. It was produced by Yash Kohli and directed by Ashok Roy. The movie had Dev Anand, Zeenat Aman, Pradeep Kumar, Asrani, Sujit Kumar, A.K.Hangal, Tarung Ghosh, Hercules, Dev Kumar, Maruti, Lalita Kumari, Manik Dutt, Madhup Sharma, Ram Mohan, Mohan Sherry, Rajan Haksar, Probhir Roy, Rajan Kapoor, Raj Puri, Darshan Arora, Major Anand, Gopal Bhutani, Mohd.Ali, Keshav Rana, Shobha, Vikas Anand, Prem Singh, Subhash, Ramesh Goel, Amika Johar(In a Special appearance) etc in it.
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Gagan ye samjhe chaand sukhi hai
Posted on: December 2, 2012
“Saawan Ko Aane Do” (1979) was a Rajshree Productions movie. It was produced by Tarachand Barjatya and directed by Kanak Mishra. The movie had Arun Govil, Zarina Wahab, Amrish Puri, Rita Bhaduri etc in it.
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I tend to liken the journey of this blog to a train. But nowadays I find the comparison less appropriate because a train stops at intermediate stations for a while whereas we in this blog do not stop at any of the milestones and keep going along, though we may sometimes become somewhat slower than usual for various reasons. So that way, I find the comparison of this blog with a road journey somewhat more appropriate where one need not stop anywhere, and one can see milestones going past at high speed.
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