Archive for the ‘Songs of 1970s (1971 to 1980)’ Category
Manoj Kumar who played a patriotic Indian named “Bharat” in his movies from late 1960s onwards played a different “Non-Bharat” kind of role in “Beimaan” (1972). Beimaan means Dishonest and Manoj KUmar played the title role in this movie.
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“Hare Rama Hare Krishnaa” (1971) was a movie that was the biggest hit of the year. The movie as well as its music had taken the fans by storm at that time.
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This review is written by Santosh Ojha, a relatively new visitor of this blog and a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music
Two songs from this movie have already been posted on this blog, and Atul has gone public with his negative views on the movie. He found the movie too contrived, too silly even. Maybe he has a point of view, but may I present the alternate view.
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This article is written by Raja,a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor of articles to this blog
When I was growing up, a certain person in Bollywood was growing too. The difference was I was growing in primary school, he was growing towards superstardom.
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Bade bewafaa hain ye husn waale
Posted on: August 23, 2010
Here is an archtypical piano song from an archtypically early 1970s movie called “Roop Tera Mastana” which had Jeetendra, Mumtaz, Pran and Aruna Irani in lead roles.
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This article is written by Raja, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor of articles to this blog
I must admit that when I was a young boy, my appreciation of songs was very different from what it is today.
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Ruby o Ruby jaane mehboobi
Posted on: August 14, 2010
This writeup was originally by me. Now Sudhir’s writeup and translation of this song have also been added
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Atul’ write up
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When I was growing up as a pre teen kid in late 1960s and early 1970s, I heard many songs that left indelible imprints on my psyche. There are a few such songs which I never heard again for several decades. Thanks to this blog, which makes me look for songs and which familiarises me with songs sent as farmaishes by my readers, I have been rediscovering many of these forgotten gems.
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Aankhon aankhon mein baat hone do
Posted on: August 13, 2010
In early 1970s, Hindi movie songs were becoming daring and we had many songs in those days where the lyrics were far too direct and to the point, instead of beating about the bush.
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Here is a song whose farmaish was given by a reader Sunit but I was unable to post it since I was neither aware of this song nor was I able to locate it. Raja very kindly provided me the link of this song with the comment that this song was a popular song of his (and my) childhood days.
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Kaa karoon sajni aaye naa baalam
Posted on: August 10, 2010
I have posted two songs from “Swaami” (1977) in the past. I was quite surprised at the enthusiastic response of my readers towards these songs. I was not aware that the songs of “Swaami” would be so popular with my readers.
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