Archive for the ‘Songs of 1970s (1971 to 1980)’ Category
This movie called “Preet Ki Dori” (1971) is not well known, since the movie obviously flopped at the box office. It had Parikshit Sahni and Tanuja in lead roles.
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Jhoom baraabar jhoom sharaabi
Posted on: June 30, 2009
“Five Rifles” (1974) was a C grade movie produced by comedian I S Johar. The movie itself made little impression on the movie goers, but there were a few interesting tricks that I S Johar adopted in this movie.
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Aaja aaja mujhe hai tera intzaar
Posted on: June 30, 2009
“Pocketmaar”(1974) was produced by Jaginder Luthra and Ramesh and directed by Ramesh Lakhanpal. The movie had Dharmendra, Saira Bano, Prem Chopra, Mehmood, Nazir Hasain, Asit Sen, Shobha etc in it.
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Motiyon ki ladi hoon main
Posted on: June 29, 2009
In Indian culture, a man coming hard on an an unwilling woman is looked down upon and it is called “teasing”. But if a woman does it to an unwilling man, it is called “seduction”. 😉 Of course, Bollywood movies regard both these activities as desirable and as such we have had many “teasing” as well as “seductive” songs in Bollywood movies.
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Saare shahar mein aap saa
Posted on: June 28, 2009
I have listened to this song many a times in 1970s. It was a popular song from “Bairaag” (1976). In fact, quite a few songs from this movie went on to become popular.
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This is a wonderful song to listen to. and curiously, I first listened to this song only recently, even though the song is from a movie called “Sab Ka Saathi” that was released in 1972 !
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Tu jahaan main wahaan
Posted on: June 22, 2009
“Garam Khoon” (1980) was a movie starring Vinod Khanna and Sulakshana Pandit. Neither the movie nor its songs made much of an impression when the movie was released in 1979.
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Mere roothhe balam
Posted on: June 22, 2009
“Raaja” (1975) was a movie starring Rishi Kapoor and Sulakshana Pandit, but the movie turned out to be a flop. Perhaps public only wanted to see Rishi Kapoor with Neetu Singh, and Sulakshana Pandit could not be a suitable replacement.
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This song is a quintessential “villain’s den” party song that we tended to have in Bollywood movies of 1970s. In most of these songs, the hero and heroine would enter villain’s high security party as the lead singers/dancers yet the villains would remain in the dark till the song is over.
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This song is one of those songs that I heard, liked and then forgot- all this while remaining oblivious about details like its movie etc.
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