Archive for the ‘Songs of 1973’ Category
Muthukodi kawaadi hadaa
Posted on: April 12, 2009
In Bollywood movies, singing any kind of songs is mostly the preserve of Hero and Heroine. One important category of songs that they sing is love songs. There too, some conventions have been set. For instance, the love songs would be sung in a very upscale dignified way, with refined sophisticated lyrics and the two characters acting in a socially acceptable way viz acting coy and restrained.
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I had mentioned a little known fact in some earlier posts that Madan Mohan had once given music for an Amitabh Bachchan movie. Here is another little known fact- Amitabh Bachchan has also worked in a Rajshri productions movie. And this Rajshri production movie was very much a small budget deglamourised affair as was the case for all Rajshri productions movies of those days.
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Meri paayaliyaa geet tere gaaye
Posted on: March 30, 2009
This was a wonderful “paayaliya” song from “Jugnu” (1973), before the newer “paayaliya ” song came up two decades later in “Deewaana” (1992).
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Ankhiyon ko rahne de
Posted on: March 30, 2009
“Bobby”(1973) was made by Raj Kapoor to launch the career of his son, Rishi Kapoor, and his career got launched alright.
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Kabhi yahaan kabhi wahaan
Posted on: March 17, 2009
“Manchali” (1971) was a nice light hearted movie featuring Sanjeev Kumar and Leena Chandawarkar. This movie had some nice songs and I have already posted two songs from this movie.
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Tere sau deewaane
Posted on: March 15, 2009
Few people have heard the name of this movie and fewer people may have heard this song, but that was not the case all the time. During 1973, this song “tere sau deewaane” used to be quite a popular song.
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“Joshila” (1973) is one of the lesser known movies starring Dev Anand with the then young heroines Hema Malini and Rakhi. The movie failed at the box office and few people recall what this movie was all about.
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I posted a few Holi songs yesterday which I thought were the best songs on this topic.
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Main shaayar to nahin
Posted on: March 10, 2009
After the box office failure of “Mera naam Joker”, Raj Kapoor decided to make a clean break from the past. When he decided to make a teenage love story, he signed up an entirely new team.
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During 1970s, when I would try to tune radio Ceylon on wednesday night between 8 PM to 9 PM, tuning to the desired station was not as easy as it is for TV stations. There were so many radio stations on the same 25 metre band and getting a clear reception of Radio Ceylon, while avoiding voices of Voice of America, BBC etc was quite an art.
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