Archive for the ‘Songs of 1970s (1971 to 1980)’ Category
Baaghon mein bahaar aayi
Posted on: January 16, 2009
Anand Bakshi is the most prolific lyricist in Bollywood history. Many dozens of singers must have sung songs penned by him.
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Nainon mein darpan hai
Posted on: January 15, 2009
This is a duet sung by Lata and Kishore Kumar,two of the biggest names among playback singers. But the same cannot be said about the lyricist and the music director, both of whom were debutants. Maya Govind was the lyricist. She was arguably the first female lyricist in Bollywood. Bhupen Hazarika, known more for his playback singing was the music director of this movie.
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Dilbar dil se pyaare
Posted on: January 13, 2009
When Shammi Kapoor began his bull run as a hero, Shankar Jaikshan was the music director for his movies, but when he ended his bull run,Shankar jaikishan was replaced by R D Burman ( in Teesri Manzil).
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The first time Ravindra Jain worked with Kishore Kumar was in “Chor machaaye shor”. What songs Kishore Kumar sang in that movie ! “Le jaayenge, le jaayenge” became an icon of an icon song and helped many careers. One was the career of Shashi Kapoor who capitalised on it by signing movies indiscriminately.
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Ye dosti ham nahin chhodenge
Posted on: January 10, 2009
“Sholay” was a movie known for its dialogues and for its thrill a minute storyline, but it had some songs too, in case anyone noticed. And these songs too gelled well with the storyline. And come to think of it, Sholay had a dosti song, a holi song, a Helen song, a teasing song- in short, songs of different genres that were considered a must in any masala bollywood movies were very much there in Sholay.
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Gore rang pe na itna gumaan kar
Posted on: January 8, 2009
It has been a quite a while since I last posted a Rajesh Khanna-Mumtaz song. So I present one more such song.
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Mere dil mein aaj kya hai
Posted on: January 7, 2009
Bollywood movies have songs on a large number of subjects.
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Kal yahaan aayi thhi wo
Posted on: January 4, 2009
Raja, the biggest fan of this blog recalls that “meri pyari bahaniya banegi dulhaniya” seemed to be written with him in mind because of the line “Bhaiya Raja bajaayega Baja” in that song from “Sachcha Jhootha”.
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Aane waala pal jaanewala hai
Posted on: January 2, 2009
“Golmaal” was a light hearted movie, and I doubt that its songs were planned to be of anything more than timepass nature. But trust the Gulzar-R D Burman combination to take their jobs so seriously that they came up with this song in a timepass situation which went on to become an evergreen composition. In fact, for a long time, I used to wonder why people take this song so seriously. Finally I have shrugged my shoulders and reconciled myself to the fact that this song must be treated as a serious classic song.
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This movie “Mukti” was as boring and rubbish as any Bollywood movie can ever be, and it came as no surprise when this movie flopped.
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