Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs

Archive for the ‘Songs of 1970s (1971 to 1980)’ Category


Songs play a very important role in the overall experience of a movie goer. Normally it takes a while before the first song kicks in. But there are occasions when the movie begins with a song. Credits are rolling in and a song is playing in the background. As the credit ends, so does the song, and the story begins in the right earnest.
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This post is written by Raja, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor of posts to this blog

Debuts tend to be an interesting events for lots of people. Not only are they a nervous occasion for the debutant(e) but they are also a talking point for observers. Every aspect of the debut is analysed.
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This post is written by Santosh Ojha, a relatively new visitor of this blog and a fellow enthusiast of Bollywood movie music

I had stumbled onto Atul’s admirable effort a few months ago when I was looking for the lyrics of “Aaj pahli tarikh hai” for a non-film piece for my own blog. After I posted the piece, I sent the link to Atul who not only read that piece, but also several others on my blog. He has been prompt -and generous- with his comments. Over time we had sporadic email exchanges. We discovered that not only we had a common interest (Hindi film songs) but also our backgrounds; similar age, similar geography (he from Ranchi and I from Jamshedpur; both in Jharkhand) and both from middle-class families.
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This post is written by Raja, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor of posts to this blog

It is my gut feel (and I may be wrong here) that the early 70s saw more newcomers entering the Hindi film industry for significant roles (not necessarily hero/heroine) than any other period before this time.
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This post is written by Raja, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor of posts to this blog

The story of Kishore Kumar’s rebirth with the songs of Aradhana in 1969 is fairly well-documented. If Rajesh Khanna’s tsunami swept all before it in the world of acting, Kishore Kumar’s voice was its
equal in the world of music.
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This post is written by Raja, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor of posts to this blog

The summer of 1972 was my very first trip to Mumbai (then Bombay). It was summer vacation and my parents and all of us had gone to spend the vacation in Bombay.
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This post is written by Raja, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor of posts to this blog

Hindi cinema has had its share of superstars and stars. Whenever we think of the star, we tend to think of the person in his or her glory.
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This article is written by Santosh Ojha, a relatively new visitor of this blog and a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music

May 5th 1978 was a most awaited day for an Amitabh Bachchan fan. That day his latest movie Trishul got released. Zanjeer, Deewar, Sholay, Adalat and Khoon Pasina had been released in the preceding years and had proved to be super-duper hits. Amitabh Bachchan’s distinctive “positioning” as the “angry young man” in the rather cluttered world of Bollywood heroes was firmly established. That the above-mentioned movies were interspersed with blockbusters like Kabhi Kabhie (romantic hero) and Amar Akbar Anthony (comedian) only helped to intensify the hero’s aura among his fans.
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This post is written by Raja, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor of posts to this blog

Of late, I have started catching up on movies of the 1970s. I may or may not have seen the movie earlier but even if I have seen it earlier, I have no proper recollection of the story.
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