Archive for the ‘Songs of 1970s (1971 to 1980)’ Category
Pyar maanga hai tumhi se
Posted on: November 24, 2008
In olden days, when one listened to songs on Radio, the listeners would need to have all the knowledge about a song, in case they wanted to send their farmaish for a song.
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O meri sharmilee
Posted on: November 23, 2008
Rajesh Khanna’s superstardom owes a good deal to the fact that Kishore Kumar was the playback singer for him. In fact, the next superstar viz Amitabh Bachchan too owes it to Kishore Kumar’s voice for much of his popularity.
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Is mod se jaate hain
Posted on: November 22, 2008
When I began to listen to farmaishi programmes on Radio, I would pay close attention to the details about the song that were mentioned by the announcer.
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I as a kid grew up reading “Chandamama”, a children’s magazine that was published from Madras in many Indian languages. They had interesting stories from eclectic sources viz mythology, arabian tales, folk tales, etc. They also used to have stories preaching the values of peaceful co existence among joint family members. In other words, they preached just the opposite of what is preached in Ekta Kapoor’s serials now a days.
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Koi nahin hai mera
Posted on: November 21, 2008
“Samjhauta”(1973) was a movie that went unnoticed. Many people may not even have heard of this movie or its songs. Personally I heard its title song viz “samjhauta ghamon se kar lo”, but I have not been able to locate its video.
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This song is the title song of the movie called “Badalte Rishtey”. And this song also happens to be perhaps the best known and most popular song from this movie. This song is picturised in a typical Reena Roy fashion, viz it is a song sung by her in a party/ get together, just like Dharmendra used to do in 1960s.Rishi Kapoor and later Jeetendra also join her in singing this song.
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Ghunghroo ki tarah
Posted on: November 18, 2008
“Chor Machaaye Shor” was one movie that helped many careers. One was that of Shashi Kapoor, who suddenly found himself in such great demand after this movie that he signed up over 70 movies and he started giving “dates” for his shootings by hours , rather than shifts.
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kya khoob lagti ho
Posted on: November 17, 2008
Feroz Khan’s “Dharmatma” was one movie which had a story line based on Afghani background.
This movie was lapped up by its target audience and I am told that this movie became very popular in Afghanistan.
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Pal pal dil ke paas
Posted on: November 17, 2008
I have posted a few songs in this blog that I call “chitthi” songs. In all those songs, the words “chitthi”, “daakiya” or “sandeshe” was mentioned prominently. These chitthis were written by near and dear ones staying in far flung areas.
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I have listened to this song many a times, and I liked this song very much. Not only I knew that this song was sung by Mukesh, I was also aware that the movie was called “Raaste ka patthar”.
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