Archive for the ‘Songs of 1980s (1981 to 1990)’ Category
Saanchi kahen tore aawan se hamre
Posted on: March 13, 2010
I have been posting the songs of “Nadiya Ke Paar” (1982) these days. This movie had some very fine hummable songs in it.
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Gunja re…Chandan Chandan
Posted on: March 10, 2010
I have posted two songs from “Nadiya Ke Paar” (1982). This movie is full of wonderful heart warming songs in it. With time, I feel that these songs have become even sweeter to listen to.
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“Nadiyaa Ke Paar” (1982) was a quintessential Rajshri Productions movie. Like all Rajshri productions movies, this movie too was a low budget movie, made with less known actors, including newcomers. Like all other Rajshri productions movies, this movie too had outstanding music in it.
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Jogi ji dheere dheere
Posted on: March 1, 2010
There are several well known Holi songs that everyone is aware of. Then there are some lesser known Holi songs that are just awesome.
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“Laawaaris” (1981) was a movie of the time when Amitabh was at the zenith of his career when the only way for him was to go downhill. Those were the days when moviewatchers went to the movie to watch Amitabh Bachchan the superstar, not Amitabh Bachchan the actor. Amitabh Bachchan and his producers had started to rest on the laurels that he had won in the past years. It was expected that the same old tired storyline would continue to wrk in movie after movie. And so it proved too.
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Likhne waale ne likh daale
Posted on: January 28, 2010
I have posted a song from “Arpan” (1983) in this blog. This movie has some nice songs in it that are wonderful to listen to even today.
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By the time we were in 1980s, the golden era of Bollywood movie music was behind us and in we were subjected to music without soul (namely Disco music) in this decade.
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“Laawaaris” (1981) received a poor rating in the Hindi weekly magazine (Saaptaahik Hindustan) that I used to read those days. The movie reviewer (Ishwar Singh Bais) opined that the best scene in the movie was the scene where “The End” appeared on the screen.
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Kishore Kumar has sung songs for many actors. His songs in fact were a major reason for the success of many leading actors- for example Dev Anand, Rajesh Khanna, Amitabh Bachchan etc.
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“Satte Pe Satta” (1982) was an adaptation of “Seven Brides for seven brothers”. When Bollywood makers draw inspirations from Western movies, they often spoil the original. This movie is one of the few that manages to remain an enjoyable movie. I have not watched the original, so I cannot say which movie was more fun, but I know for sure that “Satte Pe Satta” had some nice songs that the original movie did not have, 😉
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