Archive for the ‘Songs of 1993’ Category
Ang se ang lagaanaa sajan
Posted on: March 20, 2011
I have discussed nearly twenty Holi songs in this blog during the three Holis that this blog has seen so far. That covers almost all the well known Holi songs and also a few songs that are not all that well known.
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Ye safar bahut hai kathin magar
Posted on: September 6, 2009
“1942, A love story” (1993) was a movie where the music saved the day for the movie. The songs of this movie were reminishent of 1960s where music tended to be a major attraction of movies.
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I can watch Bollywood songs any time, but ask me to watch a Bollywood movie containing the same songs and I develop cold feet. I find that the songs are often the only redeeming part of many movies.
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Tu mere saamne main tere saamne
Posted on: May 14, 2009
For those interested in cricket in general and IPL in particular, Shahrukh Khan and Juhi Chawla are the owners of the Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) team. They came together in 2008 to buy this floundering team.
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Chhupaana bhi nahin aata
Posted on: May 7, 2009
By 1990s, the golden era of Bollywood movie music was behind us. Still, one could witness a nice songs even in 1990s and beyond, though such songs were becoming few and far between.
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Ek ladki ko dekha to aisa lagaa
Posted on: April 25, 2009
By late 1980s, R D Burman was struggling to get assignments, because Bappi Lahiri and Anu Malik kind of music had invaded the Bollywood music scene. And R D Burman died a rather unsung death in 1991, as limelight had deserted him by that time.
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Most of the songs in this blog are from 1970s and earlier. It does not mean that I do not like songs from 1980s and later. It is just that I lost track of Bollywood music from 1980 onwards. Also, trends like blanant plagiarism, lyrics losing their importance, creation of songs in bad taste, demise of many legends from the scene, etc meant that the music of later decades does not appeal to me as much as the music of earlier decades.
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This movie was “Darr”, a Yash Chopra movie, where the upcoming hero Sharrukh Khan played a negative role and stole the thunder.
And it was this song that defines his character in this movie, that of a psycho who is obsessed about possessing the girl of his dream, who is already married to someone else.
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