Archive for the ‘Songs of 1975’ Category
“Raftaar” (1975) was a movie that was not quite A grade, nor it was an entirely B grade movie. In 1970s, such movies, which were neither here nor there tended to have Vinod Mehra and Mausami Chatterji in them as the lead pair. Put another way, they were poor producer’s Dharmendra-Hema Malini.
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Maine tujhe maanga tujhe paaya hai
Posted on: March 18, 2012
In our personal lives, we remember various important dates viz bithdays, anniversaries etc of our near and dear ones and greet them on the occasion. Hindi movie personality whom we discuss in this blog also seem like family to us and we discuss them on this blog on important days.
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I have mentioned it in the past that Hindi movies and Hindi songs tend to deal with topics that are of interest and relevance to Indian public. Having said that, one finds that there are very few songs on some topics of everyone’s interest. For example, there are very few songs, if any, that deal with the feelings of Indians as voters. 🙂
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Dekho veer jawaanon
Posted on: January 26, 2012
On the occasion of the 63rd republic day of India (26th january 2012), we are discussing a few patriotic songs today.
Here is a song of this genre from “Aakraman” (1975). This song is sung by Kishore Kumar and it is picturised on Rajesh Khanna, who plays a handicapped person who has lost one leg and is forced to walk with the help of crutches. He sings this patriotic songs to encourage the Armymen who are proceeding to the battlefield. The picturisation also shows Sanjeev Kumar and several others play fauzi jawaans in this song.
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Saal mubaarak saahib jee
Posted on: January 1, 2012
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Greetings all atulites, and best wishes for a wonderful 2012.
May this year bring all the good tidings you expect to hear
May this year bring blessings of good health to all in family
May this year bring cherishing moments of joy and delight each day
May this year bring new friendships and strengthen old ones
May this year bring plentiful prosperity to your household
May your time and space be filled with music of your liking 😀
And the rhythm of days become the melody of life Throughout the year
And here is also wishing this blog to measure many more milestones
May this musical bandwagon continue to press on this musical journey together
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“Amaanush” (1975) is a movie which was produced in Bangla as well as Hindi. The star cast as well as the music of the two versions were common. The star cast consisted of some big names of Bangla movies, viz Uttam Kumar, Anil Chatterjee, Manik Dutt,Utpal Dutt etc. Even Sharmila Tagore, the leading lady of this movie was from Bangla background.
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“Amaanush” (1975) was a movie that was made in Bangla as well as Hindi. The music of the two versions remained the same with the same music director composing for both the movies. Only the lyricist (naturally) changed.
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Dil aisa kisi ne mera todaa
Posted on: December 16, 2011
Here is another song from my school days (1970s) that should have made it to this blog long back but somehow it did not. Perhaps I was subconsciously saving this song and other songs of those days.
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Har janam mein hamaara milan
Posted on: November 22, 2011
There are some songs that I heard in my younger days and liked them without having much clue about their details. with time, these songs were forgotten. I have become reacquainted with several of these songs again after a passage of three decades or so. And I am not the only one. Several readers of the same generation also offered similar remarks about these songs.
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“Mili” (1975) was a copy of “Anand” (1971) which in turn was a copy of a Japanese award winning movie that Hrishikesh Mukherji had seen in a film festival sometime in late 1960s. I do not now remember the name of this movie but I had read about it in magazines of 1970s. I request other readers to tell me the name of this movie which inspired these movies.
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