Archive for the ‘Songs of 1970s (1971 to 1980)’ Category
Ye jo chilman hai
Posted on: March 9, 2009
During Rajesh Khanna’s heydays, it was Kishore Kumar who was the playback singer for most of the songs picturised on him. But there were a few exceptions, too.
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Mausam mausam lovely mausam
Posted on: March 9, 2009
There was one chalu timepass song in the movie called “Thodi Si Bewafaai” (1980), that was fairly popular at that time. This song was a duet sung by lesser singers (Anwar and Sulakshana Pandit) and the song went “Mausam mausam lovely mausam”. One oes not associate such chaalu kind of lyrics from Gulzar but he actually wrote this lyrics.
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Aise na mujhe tum dekho
Posted on: March 6, 2009
Dev Anand was a popular hero in 1950s and 1960s. But unfortunately he did not know when to call it a day. He continued to act one fourth his age long into 1980s with most of his movies falling flat at the box office.
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Koyi chupke se aake
Posted on: March 6, 2009
“Anubhav”, a 1971 movie had a few nice songs. But few people were aware of them since the movie sank without a trace and took the songs with it.
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Phir kahin koyi phool khila
Posted on: March 5, 2009
“Anubhav”, a by now forgotten “art” movie released in 1971 had some nice songs that have become forgotten as well. In fact, most of these songs did not become popular even in 1971. In fact, I never had the opportunity of listening to most of the songs from this movie except one.
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Kishore Kumar has sung some wonderful songs for leading heroes viz. Dev Anand, Rajesh Khanna, Amitabh Bachchan. Though Vinod Khanna never achieved the same stature as the earlier mentioned stars, Vinod Khanna too was in contention for the top spot for much of 1970s before he threw it all away for Rajneesh.
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Main na bhooloonga
Posted on: March 3, 2009
Here is a song from “Roti Kapda Aur Makaan” that touched the heart strings of the public. This movie became the biggest hit of the year 1974 and many songs of this movie became quite popular.
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Oy buddho lambo lambo
Posted on: March 3, 2009
“Buddha mil gaya” was a movie that is not remembered much, but I seem to remember that one of its songs was banned from being played on Akashwani as it was supposed to be too insulting for “buddhas” or something of the sort.
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“Haath Ki Safaai” (1974) was a movie featuring Vinod Khanna, Randhir Kapoor, Hema Malini and Rekha (I think ) Simi Garewal. Despite such names, the movie was soon forgotten.
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