Archive for the ‘Songs of 1980s (1981 to 1990)’ Category
Koyi kya kare chalte chalte
Posted on: February 2, 2009
“Do Dishaayen” (1982) is a Dharmendra-Hema Malini movie and surprisingly few people are aware of the existence of this movie.
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Teri har adaa hai haseen
Posted on: February 1, 2009
This is a nice timepass song from 1981. The movie is called “Daulat” and this song is a duet sung by Kishore Kumar and Asha Bhonsle and is picturised on Vinod Khanna and Zeenat Aman.
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Zindagi ye zindagi
Posted on: January 30, 2009
The movie is called “Daulat” and this song is an archtypical villain’s den song. Hero and heroine are in “disguise” of sorts and the lady keeps gesturing to the hero during her singing. I do not know how successful she is in communicating that way. The villain and his gangsters appear smarter than usual, and they have taken up positions as waiters in the club where this song is being sung.
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Abke baras
Posted on: January 26, 2009
This song from “Kraanti” is Manoj Kumar’s version of a patriotic song from pre independence era.
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In aankhon ki masti
Posted on: January 24, 2009
Somehow I feel that “Umrao Jaan” was to Rekha what “Paakeza” was to Meena Kumari. Both these movies were of a similar genre, showing a courtesan singing Mujra in a kotha.
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Ye tera ghar ye mera ghar
Posted on: January 23, 2009
This song is written by Javed Akhtar and it is a beautifully written song, which has been sung so nicely by Jagjeet Singh and Chitra Singh under the music direction of Kuldeep Singh.
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Saajan mera us paar hai
Posted on: January 21, 2009
“Ganga Jamuna Saraswati” was a Manmohan Desai movie produced in 1988. In my opinion, Manmohan Desai was taking his audience for a ride by that time and was even succeeding.
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Don’t worry, be happy
Posted on: January 12, 2009
Here is a funny and feel good song from a Amitabh Bachchan movie called “Toofan” (1989). Few people remember this movie now, but I for one thought that the movie was fairly good by the standards of Amitabh Bachchan movies of those days. I in fact watched this movie more than once.
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The value of lyrics in a song is often underestimated, whereas in reality it is the words of the lyrics that influence the listeners immensely. Words are all powerful and the sentiments involved in songs can influence its listeners immensely. There have been instances when certain songs moved big leaders as well as ordinary people to tears, or roused them into action.
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Tere jaisa yaar kahaan
Posted on: December 20, 2008
I just expounded on my theory that Amitabh Bachchan tended to have quite a few “friendship” songs in his movies. In fact, the title of two of his movies themselves were friendship based- viz “Dostana” and “Yaraana”, both meaning “friendship”. Of course, there were “friendship” songs even in those Amitabh movies whose titles were different- viz in movies like “Zanjeer”, “Hera Pheri”,”Ram Balram” etc.
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