Archive for the ‘Songs of 1970s (1971 to 1980)’ Category
Jee chaahe jee chaahe
Posted on: March 18, 2009
“Raja” (1975) was a movie starring Rishi kapoor and Sulakshana Pandit. Few people ( including me) were aware of the existence of this movie. I was of course aware about the songs without knowing which movie these songs were from.
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Jalta hai jiya mera
Posted on: March 18, 2009
“Zakhmee” (1975) had quite a few wonderful songs. For long I thought that these songs were composed by R D Burman. It was much later that I realised that this movie in fact was the debut movie of Bappi Lahiri as a music director.
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Aati rahengi bahaarein
Posted on: March 18, 2009
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In old Bollywood movies, main characters, whatever be their economic status, used to live in huge palatial homes.
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“Dost” (1974) had one iconic song viz “gaadi bula rahi hai” which has been posted in this blog already.
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Kabhi yahaan kabhi wahaan
Posted on: March 17, 2009
“Manchali” (1971) was a nice light hearted movie featuring Sanjeev Kumar and Leena Chandawarkar. This movie had some nice songs and I have already posted two songs from this movie.
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Simti si sharmaayi si
Posted on: March 17, 2009
Just listen to this Kishore Kumar song ! I have heard this song quite a few times, and all these days I thought that this song was written by Anand Bakshi and composed by R D Burman. But no, the lyricist is Kaifi Azmi and this song is composed by Madan Mohan.
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Roothe rab ko manana aasaan hai
Posted on: March 16, 2009
“Majboor” was one of the earlier movies of Amitabh Bachchan before his superstardom days. This movie had him playing a more believable role of a normal human being with weaknesses, rather than the larger than life hero he soon became.
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“Saawan Ko Aane Do” was a musical blockbuster that contained one amazing song after another. Most of these songs were sung by Yesudas and this movie to my mind constituted the finest hour that Yesudas enjoyed in his singing career in Bollywood. The music director was Rajkamal whereas different songs were written by different and mostly little known lyricists.
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Tere sau deewaane
Posted on: March 15, 2009
Few people have heard the name of this movie and fewer people may have heard this song, but that was not the case all the time. During 1973, this song “tere sau deewaane” used to be quite a popular song.
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Chaand jaise mukhde pe
Posted on: March 15, 2009
The movie “Saawan Ko Aane Do” was a musical blockbuster, and its songs became very popular among its target audience, viz audience who watched non mainstream ( read Amitabh Bachchan kind of action movies) movies which were made on shoestring budget with unknown faces.
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