Archive for the ‘Songs of 1980s (1981 to 1990)’ Category
Gangaram kanwaara reh gaya
Posted on: July 26, 2012
This article is written by nahm, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
‘Jeewan Dhaara’ was a social family film. I remembered about this song when Peevesie posted those two songs of “Golmaal”. I had forgotten the name and song lyrics and tune. I remembered that Kishore Kumar was the singer and most probably it was by Laxmikant Pyarelal, and that it was a funny song performed on stage by Amol Palekar. I vaguely remembered something like ‘gangaram’ and ‘totaram’ in the lyrics. So what did i do. I googled it. And presto ! i had the words “gangaram kanwara reh gayaa”. Then it was just a matter of finding a video link in Youtube, which was easy.
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Jabse dekha hai tumhe
Posted on: July 20, 2012
“Dil Aakhir Dil Hai” (1982) came at a time when I was on the verge of irreversibly losing track of Hindi movies. In fact I was not even aware of this movie till I was sent the lyrics of this song by Prakashchandra.
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Last week, I suddenly felt an urge to write an article on Shashi Kapoor whom I admire for being a different Kapoor from his two illustrious brothers – Raj Kapoor and Shammi Kapoor. He may not have the genius and business acumen of Raj Kapoor nor have the yahoo image of Shammi Kapoor. But he scored over his two illustrious brothers in that he was the most handsome among them. I remember a handsome and boyish looking Shashi Kapoor in ‘Waqt’ (1965). With his handsome and ever smiling face, he had a huge fan following during his hey days. He was different from his brothers on one more count – he married an English girl Jennifer Kendal who was associated with a theater group.
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Kab talak shamma jali yaad nahin
Posted on: July 11, 2012
“Painter Babu” (1983) was produced by Manoj Kumar under his banner of VIP Films with the aim of launching the career of his son brother Rajeev Goswami. The movie had Rajeev Goswami, Meenakshi Sheshadri, Neelima Parandekar, Veerender Sharma, Dheeraj Kumar, Aruna Irani, Madan Puri, Om Shiv Puri, Neelam, Rakesh Bedi, Bandini Mishra, Birbal, C.S.Dubey, Bharat Kapoor, Pinchoo Kapoor, Rajen Kapoor, Kamini Kaushal, Lalita Kumari, Ram Mohan,Meena T, Tuntun, Goga Kapoor, Sudhir Dalvi, etc.
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Maana teri nazar mein
Posted on: July 9, 2012
In the series of anniversaries today (9 july), here is the fourth anniversary of the day. Today is the birthday of Sulakshana Pandit.
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Dil ki baat kahin lab pe na aa jaaye
Posted on: July 3, 2012
When I was growing up in 1970s then I had propounded a theory about the actors and movie makers of Hindi movies. My thoery was that the movie makers needed to take the movie going janta for a ride by serving them fare that they liked. In cruder terms, movie going public had to be fooled into partonising their movies. And the movie makers needed to be on their toes because it was obviously not possible to keep serving them the same fare.
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Ye waqt na kho jaaye
Posted on: June 4, 2012
Today (4th june) is the birthday of several film personalities, viz na Rai, Nutan and also S P Balasubrahmanyam.
S P Balasubrahmanyam or SPB in short was born on 4 june 1946 and he is celebrating his 66th birthday today. Most of his playback singing has been in South Indian languages, but he has also sung several songs in Hindi movies that are well known among music lovers.
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Ye pyaar thhaa ya kuchch aur thhaa
Posted on: June 2, 2012
Raj Kapoor (14 December 1924 – 2 June 1988) departed for the heavenly abode this day twentyfour years ago.
This blog has several songs picturised on Raj Kapoor. Here is a song which is not picturised on him, but it is a song whose picturisation was directed by him.
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Kitne bhi tu kar le sitam
Posted on: April 21, 2012
I was at Jabalpur when this blog was started. After about 18 months later, I shifted to another -pur in another state and I was based there for two years. Now I have shifted to yet another -pur in yet another state.
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Ye nazdeekiyaan
Posted on: April 10, 2012
This song has quickly become an earworm with me right from the time I was sent the lyrics of this song a few days back. So much so that today this song was playing in my mind even when I was in the process of discussing other songs for the day.
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