Archive for the ‘Songs of 1970s (1971 to 1980)’ Category
Albele sanam tu laaya hai kahaan
Posted on: May 22, 2009
Sharda had an interesting kind of voice, which Shankar of Shankar Jaikishan fame had tried hard to project as an alternative voice to Lata.
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As qawwalis go, this qawwali was hugely popular in 1970s. In fact, if this movie “Dharma” (1973) is still remembered, it is solely because of this qawwali.
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Dilip Kumar has mostly sung in the voice of Rafi, Talat Mahmood and Mukesh. But there is one movie where he sings in the voice of Kishore kumar as well. This movie is “Sagina”(1974) which came at the fag end of Dilip Kumar’s career as hero.
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Aise besharm aashiq hain ye aaj ke
Posted on: May 21, 2009
To call “Putlibai” (1972) a B grade movie would be paying too much of a compliment to this movie. This movie was such a low budget and low profile movie that few people who lived in those times were aware of the existence of this movie.
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Ye neer kahaan se barse hain
Posted on: May 19, 2009
Whenever someone talks of ‘Prem Parbat”, I am reminded of the song “Ye dil aur unki nigaahon ke saaye”. In fact, this movie and this song are almost synonymous for many people, including me.
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Chal chal chal mere saathi
Posted on: May 18, 2009
“Haathi Mere Saathi” (1971) was a delight for kids when this movie was first released. It had everything that one needed. It had Rajesh Khanna, and it had elephants doing wonderful stuffs. What more does a kid and those young at heart want ?
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Chaand kyaa hai Roop ka darpan
Posted on: May 17, 2009
The Golden era of Bollywood music (1950 to 1980) saw many great music directors enrich Bollywood movies with their outstanding compositions. Many of them went on to have very long successful innings lasting for decades.
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In 1970s, when Amitabh Bachchan ruled the roost, I found it perplexing that Amitabh Bachchan movies with silly plots did good business whereas movies which were truly good in my judgement failed at the box office. To my mind, movies like “The Great Gambler”, and “Deshpremi” weere better movies than say “Muqaddar ka Sikandar” and “Suhaag”, but that is not what the public thought at that time.
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I have heard this song many a times without knowing which movie this song was from. I was under the impression that this song was from some movie of 1960s.
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Tum jo mil gaye ho
Posted on: May 13, 2009
By now I have realised that one should not typecast people. People, if given a chance can surprise us by coming up with performances that one do not normally associate with them.
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