Archive for the ‘Songs of 1976’ Category
Jhoomta saawan dekho aaya
Posted on: April 19, 2009
While looking for forgotten gems, look what I have discovered. This Rafi song is from a forgotten movie called “Do Khilaadi” (1976). Gauhar Kanupri is the lyricist and Usha Khanna has composed the music.
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Jab deep jale aana
Posted on: April 15, 2009
“Chitchor” was a Rajshree productions movie that introduced Amol Palekar, Zareena Wahab and Vijayendra Ghatge to Bollywood. Yesudas, who had sung a few songs for Salil Chowdhary made his mark as a playback singer in Bollywood with this movie.
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Gori tera gaaon bada pyaara
Posted on: March 13, 2009
This song from “Chitchor” (1976) heralded the arrival of Amol Palekar as a hero in small budget Bollywood movies.
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Mere naina saawan bhadon
Posted on: January 1, 2009
This movie “Mahbooba” had a story of reincarnation and a haunting haveli. The music of R D Burman created just the right atmosphere for this movie in songs after songs.
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Kal ki haseen mulaaqaat ke liye
Posted on: December 24, 2008
When an aged couple want to reminisce on their good old days, what do they do ? they look at old sepia tones photographs in old albums. but when it comes to filmy couples viz Dharmendra and Hema Malini, or Rishi Kapoor and Neetu Singh, all they need to do is watch their old movies.
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Barson puraana ye yaaraana
Posted on: December 20, 2008
Amitabh Bachchan movies in 1970s tended to have quite a few songs about friendships. In fact, I can readily count 4-5 such songs off the cuff – from Zanjeer, Sholay etc. In fact, two of his movies containing such songs had their titles like “Yaaraana” and “Dostana”. 😉 Another actor “specialising” in movies with such titles was Shatrughan Sinha, who in addition to figuring in “Dostana” was there in “Dost” as well.
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Gori tori paijaniya
Posted on: December 20, 2008
It is a song that is less popular than other songs from this movie. And reasons are not too far to seek. It is a semi classical song, and such songs are rarely popular with lay audience.
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Whenever a song talks of hills and mountains, I can imagine echoes coming back from the distant peaks of the mountain range.
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“Chalte Chalte” was a movie released in 1976 that is now mainly remembered for Bappi Lahiri’s music.
Bappi Lahiri, who had make people take notice of him in his debut movie “Zakhmee” this time made people sit up and take notice. The title song of this movie became an iconic song and other songs also became popular.
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