Archive for the ‘Songs of 1970s (1971 to 1980)’ Category
Ankhiyon ko rahne de
Posted on: March 30, 2009
“Bobby”(1973) was made by Raj Kapoor to launch the career of his son, Rishi Kapoor, and his career got launched alright.
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Ab main jaaun
Posted on: March 29, 2009
Kishore Kumar and Mumtaz were signed up for a movie called “Pyaar Deewaana” in 1966 when both were relatively small time players in Bollywood scheme of things. The makers of the movie were equally small time players who had signed up small time artists for other tasks viz lyrics writing, music direction etc too and the shooting of this movie progressed at snail’s pace.
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This song is a rather uncharacteristic song on many counts, when viewed in hindsight.
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Apni aadat hai sabko salaam karna
Posted on: March 27, 2009
This is a very special song in more ways than one.
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Kabhi khole na tizori ka taala
Posted on: March 24, 2009
Now a days, we keep talking about the deterioration in the quality of Bollywood songs and we fondly remember the days gone by when there used to be high quality songs.
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Have you come across pedantic sort of people, who, instead of listening to what you have to say, try to point out your grammatical mistakes ?
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Raahi thha main aawaara
Posted on: March 20, 2009
“Sahib Bahadur” (1977) was one of the forgettable movies of Dev Anand. Incidentally, it was a remake of another Dev Anand movie called “Afsar” (1950) which was presumably less forgettable.
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Do lafzon ki hai dil ki kahaani
Posted on: March 20, 2009
“The Great Gambler” was an Amitabh Bachchan movie that was pronounced a damp squib when it was released in 1979. That came as a surprise to me because I found it a more watchable movie than many of the supposedly successful Amitabh Bachchan movies like “Muqaddar Ka Sikandar”, “Suhaag” etc.
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Dev Anand was well past his sell by date as a hero in 1970s, but Dev Saab did not realise that and continued to act in one flop movie after another. In the process, many nice songs picturised on him suffered the same fate as the movie.
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Jaaneman tum kamaal karti ho
Posted on: March 19, 2009
In Bollywood movies, hero and heroines would traditionally meet in gardens and would be going round the trees, much like gorillas or chimps going through their mating rituals. Being more evolved than the apes, they would sing a duet while running around trees.
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