Archive for the ‘Songs of 1971’ Category
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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This song is a very popular song from my childhood. As happened with me most of the time, I would have no clue about such songs except the name of the singer. And with time I would forget all about such songs as they went out of circulation.
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Here is yet another song from 1970s which I liked a lot those days, without having much details about it, except that it was sung by Kishore Kumar. It went “koyi maane ya na maane jo kal tak the anjaane, wo aaj hamen jan se bhi pyaare ho gaye”.
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Mausam hai aashiquaana
Posted on: November 10, 2008
The music of “Pakeeza” though considered outdated by the standards of 1970s by aam janta ( like yours truly) became surprisingly popular. Two of the songs from this in movie in fact became second and third in Binaca geetmala final of 1972.
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Aao tumhen main pyaar sikha doon
Posted on: November 9, 2008
I have posted a song ( “darpan ko dekha toone jab jab kiya singaar”) from “Upaasna” earlier in this blog which was picturised on Feroz Khan and Mumtaz and was sung by Mukesh. Here is another song from the same movie.
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Ae maine kasam li
Posted on: November 8, 2008
Dev Anand was one of the leading heart throbs of Bollywood in 1950s and 60s. It is my personal opinion that he should have retired from playing teenage hero in 1960s as soon as he turned 40.
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Kishore Kumar has sung some wonderful comedy songs in his long career. This blog has featured some of them. There are many great comedy songs of Kishore Kumar that remain to be posted.
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“Mera gaon Mera Desh” was the most well known “daaku” movie before “Sholay” came about. In fact, “Sholay” is inspired in parts by “Mera Gaon Mera Desh”.
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Ae baadal jhoom ke chal
Posted on: October 18, 2008
Here is a Mukesh song with a difference. Yes, it is not a sad song. It is a happy song.
This song is from a by now forgotten movie called “Naadaan” (1971) and it was picturised on Navin Nischol. This song was reasonably popular at that time. But as I have repeatedly mentioned, 1971 was the year of bumper crop of outstanding songs, and many nice songs found themselves edged out in popularity stakes. In other less competitive times, the same songs would have fared much better.
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