Archive for the ‘Songs of 1974’ Category
Aaja aaja mujhe hai tera intzaar
Posted on: June 30, 2009
“Pocketmaar”(1974) was produced by Jaginder Luthra and Ramesh and directed by Ramesh Lakhanpal. The movie had Dharmendra, Saira Bano, Prem Chopra, Mehmood, Nazir Hasain, Asit Sen, Shobha etc in it.
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This song is a quintessential “villain’s den” party song that we tended to have in Bollywood movies of 1970s. In most of these songs, the hero and heroine would enter villain’s high security party as the lead singers/dancers yet the villains would remain in the dark till the song is over.
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While posting lullaby songs, once I had commented that these lullabies are mostly sung by female singers and lullabies sung by male singers are very rare.
Here is a rare lullaby song, in the sense that it is sung by a male singer.
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Saala main to saahab ban gayaa
Posted on: May 29, 2009
It was a song that I as a young kid just loved to listen to. I had not watched its picturisation till a few days ago, but that in no way prevented me from enjoying this song.
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Kahin karti hogi wo mera intezaar
Posted on: May 28, 2009
What a gem of a song ! And curiously, this details of this song are not all that well known. Or at least that was the case with me.
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Kaahe ko bulaaya mujhe baalmaa
Posted on: May 23, 2009
I think I need to open a category of songs which I enjoyed listening to, even though I had no clue which movie they were from. Then I forgot all about these songs ( because the song alongwith its movie were forgotten) and then I stumbled upon the same song recently once more.
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Dilip Kumar has mostly sung in the voice of Rafi, Talat Mahmood and Mukesh. But there is one movie where he sings in the voice of Kishore kumar as well. This movie is “Sagina”(1974) which came at the fag end of Dilip Kumar’s career as hero.
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Suno Kaho Suna kaha kuchh huaa kyaa
Posted on: May 10, 2009
There is nothing like a song picturised on Rajesh Khanna and Mumtaz to cheer one up.
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Ye jo public hai ye sab jaanti hai
Posted on: May 8, 2009
Rajesh Khanna was the reigning superstar in early 1970s and Kishore Kumar was the reigning king among male playback singer. and both of them has annexed their crowns almost at the same time.
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Paas nahin aana bhool nahin jaana
Posted on: April 18, 2009
It is generally belived that commercial (mainstream) bollywood movies were make belive ones whereas “art” movies depicted reality. Not always.
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