Archive for the ‘Songs of 1970s (1971 to 1980)’ Category
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Another wonderful song, actually a qawwaali, that I discovered recently to be composed by Usha Khanna. The singer of this qawwaali is Jaani Baabu Qawwaal. When I had heard this qawwaali many year ago, and associating the name of Jaani Baabu with it, I had presumed this to be non-film offering, since Jaani Baabu is a professional mainstream qawwaali singer. Only recently, as I was selecting songs composed by Usha Khanna, for posting on this blog, I came across once again this wonderful qawwaali on YouTube, and then realized that it is actually from the film Do Khilaadi (1976).
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Deepawali manaayen suhaanee
Posted on: October 26, 2011
“Shirdi Ke saibaba” (1977) is a movie which is based on a book Sri Sai Charitra written by Late Sri Govindrao Dabholkar. The movie was produced by Salra charities trust. Ashok.V. Bhooshan directed the movie. The movie had Sudhir Dalvi, Manmohan Krishna, Raj Mehra,Usha Chavhan, Chanda, Vatsala Deshmukh,
Suman Dharmadhikari, Kumari Mahalaxmi, Laxman Chawla, Shrikanth Moghe, Preetham Beli,Jyotsna Kirpekar, Bhavna, C.S.Dubey, Ratnamala, Master Tito etc in it. In addition,some well known actors, viz. Hemamalini, Manoj kumar, Shathrughna Sinha, Premnath, Rajendra Kumar, Madan Puri,Paintal, Sathsh,Dheeraj kumar, Krishan Dhawan, Sachin etc had made guest appearances in this movie.
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“Saajan Ki Saheli” (1980) is a movie which came up in the last stage of the Golden era of Hindi movie music. Those were the days when Disco music was becoming the rage and lyrics were losing their importance in such songs. During those days, we fortunately still had the kind of music in some movies that we had grown up to love all these decades. These were off beat movies, smaller budget movies, family values movies- in brief “non mainstream movies”.
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“Ummeed” (1971) is an obscure movie, despite this movie being of relatively recent vintage by the standards of this blog. This movie was a Rajan Films production and it was directed by Nitin Bose. The cast of this movie included names like Ashok Kumar, Nanda,Leela Naidu, Joy Mukherjee, Tuntun, Agha, Leela Misra etc. This movie must have sunk without a trace, because I have not heard of this movie despite this movie getting released when I was at my most alert and curious as a pre teen kid.
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Apne dil mein jagah deejiye
Posted on: October 25, 2011
Though I had listened to this many a times in 1970s, I was not aware aboout the details of the song. from the voice, I knew that the song was sung by Asha Bhonsle. From the racy tune, i guessed that the music of this song was composed by R D Burman. And that is all I was aware about this song.
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Karva chauth is a festival mainly associated with womenfolk, and as a result it is often forgotten by men. It is similar to men forgetting their wedding anniversaries, wife’s birthday etc. What does one do, when one realises this fact late ? One hurries up to make amends. And that is what I am trying to do just now. I have realised late that today is Karwa chauth festival, and so at this late hour, I am trying to push through some karwa chauth festival songs. 🙂
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“Swarg Narak” (1978) was produced by Vijaya Productions and directed by Dasari Narayan Rao. This movie had Sanjeev Kumar, Jeetendra,Tanuja,Vinod Mehra,Mausami Chatterji,Shabana Azmi,Jagdeep, Om Shivpuri,Komila Wirk,Raj Mehra, Shammi, Vikram Gokhale, Birbal etc.
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“Baaton Baaton Mein” (1979) is a movie that was not about superhuman characters, but about average day to day characters like you and me. And the depiction of their hopes, aspirations, joys, sorrows and other feelings of the characters were so natural and one could empathise with them. And when these feelings are expressed in the form of songs which are written with heart, composed with sensitivity and sung with feeling, that such songs are bound to be remembered and recalled.
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