Archive for the ‘Songs of 1980s (1981 to 1990)’ Category
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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Early years of 1980 saw a passing fad of reincarnation stories in Bollywood, what with movies like “Karz”, “Kudrat” etc released at more or less the same time.
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Tera hijr mera naseeb hai
Posted on: December 11, 2008
“Razia Sultan”, the Kamal Amrohi movie made on the only female emperor to rule Delhi, had some very nice ( and different ) songs.
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“Masoom” was an upgraded version of “Man Woman and Child”. Incidentally, both these movies were released near about the same time.
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“Razia Sultan” was a movie made as a labour of love by Kamal Amrohi,but the Indian audiences were not matured enough to appreciate this movie and the movie failed at the box office.
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Lakdi ki kaathi kaathi pe ghoda
Posted on: December 9, 2008
“Masoom” was one movie that took a western story, indigenised it and improved upon the original. And it is no mean feat seeing that the original story was “Man, woman and Child” written by Eric Segal which was also made into an American movie of the same name.
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Saagar kinaare dil ye pukaare
Posted on: November 29, 2008
Dimple Kapadia made her debut in 1973 with “Bobby”. The success of this movie should have seen her landing many assignments and launch her career. Instead, she got married to Rajesh Khanna, and she was lost to Bollywood.
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Hoga tumse pyaara kaun
Posted on: November 25, 2008
1980 was the decade when I started losing track of bollywood movies and its songs. Gone was the meticulous record keeping of songs etc. Songs and movies in that decade passed like a blur before my eyes, without registering much in my brain.
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