Archive for the ‘Yesudas solo’ Category
“Dada” (1978) was a B grade movie which was a remake of a 1960s C grade movie called “Faisla”.
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Rajshri productions had hit upon a sureshot formula for success in the decade of 1970s. They would make movies for a small target audience who wanted to watch love stories full of nice songs and heartwarming plots. This was a winning formula because love stories by definition required new faces ( and as such Rajshri Productions saved money on hiring big name actors). In these movies, story and music were the real stars and Rajshri productions had built up a small loyal audience for their movies.
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“Saawan Ko Aane Do” was a musical blockbuster that contained one amazing song after another. Most of these songs were sung by Yesudas and this movie to my mind constituted the finest hour that Yesudas enjoyed in his singing career in Bollywood. The music director was Rajkamal whereas different songs were written by different and mostly little known lyricists.
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Chaand jaise mukhde pe
Posted on: March 15, 2009
The movie “Saawan Ko Aane Do” was a musical blockbuster, and its songs became very popular among its target audience, viz audience who watched non mainstream ( read Amitabh Bachchan kind of action movies) movies which were made on shoestring budget with unknown faces.
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Tujhe dekhkar jag waale par
Posted on: March 14, 2009
“Saawan ko aane do” was Rajshri productions movie where Arun Govil (later of “Ram” fame) got the opportunity of acting as an hero opposite another Rakhshi productions regular viz Zarina Wahab.
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In Bollywood movies, one associates Maajhi songs with S D Burman and R D Burman. And these songs are mostly sung by S D Burman and Kishore Kumar.
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Gori tera gaaon bada pyaara
Posted on: March 13, 2009
This song from “Chitchor” (1976) heralded the arrival of Amol Palekar as a hero in small budget Bollywood movies.
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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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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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