Archive for the ‘Songs of 1981’ Category
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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Ye kahaan aa gaye ham
Posted on: March 25, 2012
This article is written by Pradeep Raghunathan, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a new contributor to this blog.
This is my first attempt at reviewing a song, so please bear with me :). I have been glued to the blog off late and am trying hard to catch up with all the posts on the blog. I have, but hardly reached 1/3rd of the way in my journey so far. I am so looking forward to the journey of discovering these gems, thanks to our fellow members.
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Zindagi jab bhi tere bazm mein
Posted on: March 1, 2012
“Umrao Jaan” (1981) is a treasure of some of the finest ghazals that have been created in Hindi movies. Most of these songs are sung by Asha Bhonsle in the movie, but there are songs in other voices too in this movie.
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Ye kya jagah hai doston
Posted on: February 15, 2012
Renowned Urdu poet Akhlaq Mohammad Khan, who wrote under the pen name ‘Shahryar’ and immortalized himself as the lyricist of ‘Umrao Jaan’, passed away in Aligarh on Monday (13th february 2012) after battling lung cancer. He was 75 and received the Jnanpith Award for 2008.
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This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Just saw the response from Peevesie’s Mom for the song Ital ke ghal mein teetal) from “Bahuraani” (1963) . And I remembered, the film Jyoti (1981) is almost a frame to frame remake of the film Bahurani (1963), with Jeetendra playing the role played by Guru Dutt, Hema Malini that of Mala Sinha, Vijendra Ghatge that of Feroze Khan, Shashikala that of Lalita Pawar, Ashok Kumar that of Nazir Hussain, and Deven Verma that of Mukri.
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This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
About six weeks ago, the request for this song appeared on the Reader’s Farmaishes page. The request has been put in by Dr. Mona Shah. And the song itself I believe does not need any introductions. An iconic song that hit the radiowaves in 1981, was a rage with teenagers and young people of that era and beyond. The film Kalyug (1981) has just this one song, and this song has become a cult icon all by itself. But there is also a tribulation that is attached with this song. It is rare.
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In this blog we take pride in being topical, in the sense that we discuss topical songs on important days, viz national days, festivals, important birth and death anniversaries etc. Thus we are always raedy with topical songs for independence day, republic day,and festivals like holi, deepawali and raakhi. We also have special songs on the occasions of birth and death anniversary of important artists.
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Kabhi hoti nahin hai jiski haar
Posted on: August 4, 2011
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Normally it is believed that old songs are obscure songs and new songs are better known songs. But that is not always the case. I find that several recent songs (anything created in 1970s and later are recent by the standards of this blog. 😀 ) have been forgotten in double quick time.
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