Archive for the ‘Songs of 1982’ Category
Jaate ho to jaao par itna sun lo
Posted on: May 15, 2009
“Desh Premi” (1982) was one movie that I actually liked rather whole heartedly, but it appears that I was once again in the minority. While Manmohan Desai movies that I disliked turned out to be big hits, this movie was regarded as a damp squib at the box office.
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Mal de gulaal mohe
Posted on: March 11, 2009
Have you ever felt like a student taking an examination who is unable to recall the correct answers during the examination, only to be able to recall them perfectly well after the exam is over ? well, I am feeling the same way vis a vis Holi songs.
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Kisi ko phool mile kisi ko dhool
Posted on: February 3, 2009
I became aware of the movie “Do Dishaayen” (1982) while posting Yesuda’s Vishesh Jaimala programme’s transcript in another of my blogs. This movie is such an obscure movie that its songs were not available on internet in any form.
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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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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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“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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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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Tum itna jo muskura rahe ho
Posted on: November 5, 2008
Most of the ghazals we grew up listening to often had heavy duty high sounding words in them whose meanings few people understood. And people not understanding the words would not admit to it either, fearing that he would fall in the estimation of fellow ghazal lovers with such a confession.
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Jhuki jhuki si nazar
Posted on: October 30, 2008
“Arth” was an art movie or parallel movie as low budget movies were described as in those days. Apart from the realistic story line which were supposedly based on the life of Mahesh Bhatt, the movie had some nice ghazals. It was one movie that helped popularise ghazals which was a welcome development considering that the other option in Bollywood filmy music those days used to be “disco” songs.
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