Archive for the ‘Songs of 1970s (1971 to 1980)’ Category
De de Khuda ke naam pe pyaare
Posted on: March 14, 2012
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
De De
Khuda Ke Naam Pe Pyaare
Taaqat Hai Gar Dene Ki
Eighty One years ago today, 14th March, 1931. The sounds of this song heralded the arrival of talking films on Indian screen.
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Ek meethhi si chubhan
Posted on: March 6, 2012
“Reshma aur Shera” (1971) was a movie produced and directed by Sunil Dutt. Starcast of the movie incuded names like Sunil Dutt, Waheeda Rehman, Amitabh Bachchan, Jayant, Sulochana, Amrish Puri, Dulari, Sudhir, B. B. Bhalla, Guddy, Padma Khanna, Sunil Dutt, Vinod Khanna, Rakhee Gulzar, K. N. Singh etc.
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Tum miley pyaar se
Posted on: March 3, 2012
1970s, especially the first half of it was ruled by R D Burman as a music director. So much so that the other music directors too began to compose music that sounded like R D Burman’s music. And of course they began to use the voice of Kishore Kumar also, who had become the top male singer just as R D Burman had become the top music director.
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It is a commonly held view that obscure movies and songs are those that were created long long ago. But that is not always the case. There could be movies and songs that may have ended up as obscure even if they may have been created as late as in 1980 !
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Jeewan chalne ka naam
Posted on: March 1, 2012
Manoj Kumar, like the politicians of those days, had hit upon the formula of championing the cause of the “Aam Janta” and he would make movies where he played a character appropriately called Bharat who would take up cudgels on behalf of the public.
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I have mentioned it in the past that Hindi movies and Hindi songs tend to deal with topics that are of interest and relevance to Indian public. Having said that, one finds that there are very few songs on some topics of everyone’s interest. For example, there are very few songs, if any, that deal with the feelings of Indians as voters. 🙂
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Hazaar baaten kahe zamaana
Posted on: February 26, 2012
“Ghatna” (1974) was an Aradhana Films presentation. It was directed by Mahesh Shandilya. Starcast of the movie had names like Danny Denzongpa, Priti, Achaarya, Satyen Kappu, Asit Sen, Anjali Kadam, Jankidas, Mukesh, Kiran Kumar, Murad etc.
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Aao na galey lagaa lo naa
Posted on: February 26, 2012
Here is another “How come this song was not posted earlier !” category of this. This song is from “Mere Jeewan Saathi” (1972). This movie was a Shilpkaar production. It was produced by Vinoh Shah and Harish Shah. Ravi Nagaich was the director and the movie had Rajesh Khanna, Tanuja, Bindu, Rajendranath, Sujit Kumar, Utpal Dutt, Helen, Nazir Hussain, K.N.Singh, Sulochana Latkar, Krishna Kant, Brahmchari, Renu, Sonu, V.D.Puranik, Gurnam, Sabina, Vijay Dewan, Mohan, Arun Bose, Fazloo, Kabir Kumar, Mamaaji etc in it.
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Laayi kahaan hai zindagi
Posted on: February 23, 2012
Yesterday Peevesie’s mom made her debut as a lyrics contributor by sending the lyrics of a song from “Taxi Taxie” (1977). The movie may be of recent vintage, but little information is available about this movie. That is where we can always log on to our inhouse encyclopaedia and get all the details. Here is what our walking encyclopaedia Mr Arunkumar Deshmukh has to say about this movie:-
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When this blog was started more than three years ago, it used to be one song a day blog, and the song used to be of my own choice. With time, I started receiving farmaishes and I would try to comply with them. Soon I was inundated with so many farmaishes that I was left with a pending list running into many hundreds of songs, if not more.
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