Archive for the ‘Songs of 1971’ Category
“Mehboob Ki Mehandi” (1971) is a movie starring Rajesh Khanna and Leena Chandawarkar. This Muslim social movie had some wonderful songs in it, which remain popular to this day.
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Mera dil hai pyaar ka aashiyaan
Posted on: December 17, 2010
I am a big fan of Ravi as a music director who was active in music direction throughout the golden era of hindi movie music and even beyond it.
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“Sharmilee” (1971) was one of those movies that I lived a lot. This movie and its songs came about at a time when Kishore Kumar and R D Burman had taken the Hindi movie music world by storm. I also happened to be at an impressionable age (8-12 year age group) which meant that I was highly impressed and influenced by the music of that time. Forget me, even the so called grown ups turned out to be just as impressionable as me, as far as liking Kishore Kumar-R D Burman brand of music was concerned.
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Hindi movies, especially those of 1960s and 1970s, often had a birthday song in it. Many of these birthday songs have gone on to become evergreen birthday songs which are played/sung in birthdays even today.
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Tujhe dil ki baat bataa doon
Posted on: October 7, 2010
“Picnic” was a very popular word in India in 1960s and 1970s. People, who could afford it used to go to some far off places during weekend or holidays to relax. They would play some games there, have their meals their and then they would come back. This in short was what was a picnic.
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Songs play a very important part in the success of Hindi movies. If one leaves out songs, then on many occasions, not much of interest is left in the movie
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This happens with me many a times. I listen to a song and like it. And then I forget all about it. I have no clue about the identity of the song, except that it was a song sung by a particular singer.
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When I was growing up in late 1960s/early 1970s,I got to listen to countless wonderful songs.
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This post is written by Raja, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor of posts to this blog
A lot of actors have some mannerism or “trademark” that tends to be their distinguishing feature. It could be a style of dialogue delivery, it could be the way they shake their head, it could be the way they walk.
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Kaise kahen ham
Posted on: September 6, 2010
This post is written by Raja, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor of posts to this blog
My memories of Sharmilee (1971) are associated with my seeing this movie on my first-ever visit to Mumbai (then Bombay) in 1972. I have described some of my experiences of that visit on the post relating to the song “khilte hain gul yahaan”.
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