Archive for the ‘Songs of 1972’ Category
“Mere Jeewan Saathi” (1972) is a movie starring Rajesh Khanna and Tanuja, the hit pair of “Haathi Mere Saathi”. This movie, like most Rajesh Khanna movies, was a musical blockbuster, where almost all songs went on to become very popular.
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O mere dil ke chain
Posted on: November 6, 2009
Many of R D Burman’s songs in 1970s were fast paced songs that were loud, party songs. But when the sitauation demanded, R D Burman could come up with soft, sensitive romantic songs too.
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When I was growing up in a city in 1972, a new movie hall had come up and it was showing “Seeta Aur Geeta” (1972). Its song were so wonderful to listen to that I as a pre teen kid dearly wanted to watch the movie. One fine day, I dragged my elders to the movie hall to watch this movie. And what did I see ? The movie was withdrawn the previous day, and the movie “Zindagi Zindagi” (1972) was being shown instead.
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Guzar jaayen din din din
Posted on: September 19, 2009
I have mentioned in the past that Salil Chaudhary’s music was about quality rather than quantity. Just about every song that he created was a labour of love. He spent lots of time getting inspiration for his tunes. When he was in search of inspiration for new tunes, he would go to his kitchen a cook a delicacy (Illish fish, perhaps ?) and he would come up with his tunes.
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Nain hamaare saanjh sakhaare
Posted on: September 18, 2009
I had read a lot about this song, but I first listened to this song just a few days back.
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I have found that Kapoor Khandaan heroes tended to romance their would be wives on screen before tying the knot in real life. This was the case with Shammi Kapoor who acted opposite Geeta Bali in a few movies. Rishi Kapoor in fact had a roaring romance with Neetu Singh for nearly a decade in reel as well as real life before they were finally married.
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“Anuraag” (1972) was not a movie that stood much of a chance at the box office, given its serious topic (blind heroine) kept majority of movie watchers away from this movie. The songs of this movie had no such handicap, however, and the songs were all runaway hits.
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Ik pyaar ka naghmaa hai
Posted on: July 24, 2009
“Shor” (1972) was a Manoj Kumar movie. Going by the usual over the top story lines of Manoj Kumar, this movie was apparently a better movie.
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Paani re paani tera rang kaisaa
Posted on: July 21, 2009
Manoj Kumar was one producer who knew the pulse of his target audience very well. And he made movies targetted at them.
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