Archive for the ‘Songs of 1972’ Category
Gayaa bachpan jo aayi jawaani
Posted on: June 11, 2010
I have just realised that I have not posted even a single song from “Aankhon Aankhon Mein” (1972). When I was growing up, the songs of this movie were all over the loudspeakers and radio, and kids like me simply loved these songs. In my case, I enjoyed listening to those songs despite being unaware about the movie those songs were from.
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I have been blogging about Bollywood songs for some 22 months now. All these days, I have been given farmaishes to post certain songs. Then on some occasions, I have been sent clips of songs to identify. And luckily I was able to identify those songs with their movies, singers etc.
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Meri jaan meri jaan kehna maano
Posted on: April 8, 2010
“Do Chor” (1972) was quite a popular movie of its time with some popular songs in it. Modern day movie watchers may not be aware of this movie. So let me make them aware of this movie.
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“Jeet” (1972) was a movie in which Randhir Kapoor was the hero. And even the best efforts from Laxmikant Pyarelal’s music could not save this movie from flopping.
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Kapoor khaandaan males were known to romance their would be wives on screen before tying up the knot in real life. Shammi Kapoor has done it, and Rishi Kapoor has done it. In case of Randhir Kapoor’s would be wife, Babita, I found her romancing Shammi Kapoor and Shashi Kapoor onscreen instead (Chhee Chhee !).
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“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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