Archive for the ‘Songs of 1970s (1971 to 1980)’ Category
“Ek Mahal Ho Sapnon Ka” (1975) is a movie where Dharmendra and Sharmila Tagore were paired together. This movie had some superb songs in it.
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Dharmendra and Sharmila Tagore, who share the same birthday (8th December) worked together opposite each other in several movies. One of these movies was “Ek Mahal Ho Sapnon Ka” (1975). This movie apparently did not do well at the box office. But what songs this movie had !
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One of most memorable Dharmendra-Sharmila Tagore pairing was in the lovely family comedy “Chupke Chupke” (1975) where everyone, including the movie watchers have fun at the expense of Om Prakash, who plays Sharmila Tagore’s omniscient jeejaaji.
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“Sharmilee” (1971) was one of those movies that I lived a lot. This movie and its songs came about at a time when Kishore Kumar and R D Burman had taken the Hindi movie music world by storm. I also happened to be at an impressionable age (8-12 year age group) which meant that I was highly impressed and influenced by the music of that time. Forget me, even the so called grown ups turned out to be just as impressionable as me, as far as liking Kishore Kumar-R D Burman brand of music was concerned.
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Deep deewaali ke jhhoothhe
Posted on: November 5, 2010
Though I have seen the movie “Jugnu” (1973), I do not much remember the songs of this movie. While looking for deewali songs, I found that this movie indeed has a deewali song, and that too a happy deewali song. I wonder how I do not remember this song despite watching this movie.
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Main pal do pal ka shaayar hoon
Posted on: October 25, 2010
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“Kabhi Kabhi” (1976) is a movie whose music was quite unlike the music prevalent in Hindi movies at that time. The music of this movie had a retro feel about it and music lovers liked that. The songs of this movie became popular and they in fact have outlived most songs of that era.
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If Rekha celebrates her birthday on 10th october then can Amitabh Bachchan be far behind ? He celebrates his birthday the very next day, viz. 11th october. And that gives me an opportunity (rather command from my regular readers) to post Amitabh Bachchan songs on this opportunity.
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Saare niyam tod do
Posted on: October 10, 2010
In 1970s, we had a genre of movies that were supposed to be fun movies, which were mainly directed by Bengali directors like Hrishikesh Mukherji, Basu Chatterji etc. These movies followed their own formula of comedy.
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“Ghar” (1978) was the story of the ordinary life of an ordinary couple, which was a refreshing change from the larger than life stories depicted in most mainstream movies.
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