Archive for the ‘Songs of 1977’ Category
This post is written by Santosh Ojha, a relatively new visitor of this blog and a fellow enthusiast of Bollywood movie music
I had stumbled onto Atul’s admirable effort a few months ago when I was looking for the lyrics of “Aaj pahli tarikh hai” for a non-film piece for my own blog. After I posted the piece, I sent the link to Atul who not only read that piece, but also several others on my blog. He has been prompt -and generous- with his comments. Over time we had sporadic email exchanges. We discovered that not only we had a common interest (Hindi film songs) but also our backgrounds; similar age, similar geography (he from Ranchi and I from Jamshedpur; both in Jharkhand) and both from middle-class families.
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I have mentioned it many times that Chitragupta, despite his outstanding musical talent would not go out and socialise with big wigs of the industry and that is what prevented him from landing big banner movies. For instance, the first time he was introduced to raj Kapoor was in late 1980s by his sons Anand and Milind, and on meeting him, Raj Kapoor said that he was a big fan of Chitragupta and he would have loved to work with Chitragupta had he met him in their heydays.
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Kaa karoon sajni aaye naa baalam
Posted on: August 10, 2010
I have posted two songs from “Swaami” (1977) in the past. I was quite surprised at the enthusiastic response of my readers towards these songs. I was not aware that the songs of “Swaami” would be so popular with my readers.
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Yaadon mein wo sapnon mein hai
Posted on: August 9, 2010
“Swaami”(1977) is a movie that was produced by Hema Malini’s mother (Jaya Chakravarty) and this movie had Girish Karnad and Shabana Azmi in lead roles. Though none of the people involved were of Bengal background, but this movie was based on the backdrop of Bengal.
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Pal bhar mein ye kyaa ho gayaa
Posted on: July 31, 2010
Action movies, which were regarded as B and C grade stuff till 1960s had gone on to become A grade movies, and movies with non violent stories were pushed out of centrestage. But there were takers for these movies, which were then known as social movies of family movies.
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I had never heard this song from “Anurodh” (1977). I got to listen to this song thanks to a farmaish for this song by a reader (Imdad Ahmed) of this blog.
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These days, we talk of Bollywood movie songs not being what they were in the past. For great songs, we cite the songs of 1960s and 1970s.
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There were five Mangeshkar siblings- four sisters and one brothers, viz, Meena, Lata, Asha (Bhonsle), Usha, and their brother Hridaynath. Out of the five, Lata and Asha were the two who have sung thousands of songs and they have gone on to become household names. Other three siblings have also sang songs in movies, but they are very few.
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“Palkon ki Chhaon mein”(1977) was a movie starring Rajesh Khanna and Hema Malini. Despite boasting such big names, and despite a very nice storyline, the movie was a box office failure.
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In 1970s, alternative cinema was gaining strength where stories of real life common people was told, instead of telling make believe stories.
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