Archive for the ‘“Zindagi” song’ Category
Ye zindagi hai ik safar
Posted on: February 17, 2011
“Raahi” (1953) is a K A Abbas movie based on novelist Mulkraj Anand’s novel of the same name. This movie had Nalini Jaiwant, Dev Anand, Balraj Sahni etc in it.
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Zindagi bhar japab tohaar naam
Posted on: February 16, 2011
“Champaakali” (1957) is a movie starring Bharat Bhushan, Suchitra Sen, Shubha Khote etc. This movie is known for some Hemant Kumar songs including the well known song Chhup gaya koyi re door se pukaar ke. I have in fact discussed as many as three songs from this movie in the past.
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O zindagi ke dene waale
Posted on: December 12, 2010
I have discussed several songs from “Naagin” (1954) in the past, six to be exact. But this movie had so many songs in it that a few songs are still at large and remain to be posted.
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“Satyakaam” (1969), which was a critically acclaimed movie that failed at the box office, had some nice songs in it which have sadly been forgotten with time. And there are people like me who never heard the songs of this movie, despite living though that era.
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“Anarkali” (1953) is full of iconic songs. I have discussed as many as six songs from this movie in the past, but there are still songs (that too iconic songs) that are not yet covered.
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I keep confusing among movies with titles like “Ek Jhalak”, “Ek Nazar” ,”Ek Saal” etc. To add to my confusion, there are more than one movie with the same title. There have been at least two movies called “Ek Nazar”.
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In Hindi movies, one actor normally lip sync in the voice of one playback singer. But there are exceptions, when he/she sings different songs in the voice of different singers.
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There are songs that are best enjoyed as part of the movie, and then there are songs that are best enjoyed in isolation. Here is a song that falls in the later category, viz this song is best enjoyed as a stand alone song. This song is from a movie called “Paalki” (1967) and this story was as retrograde and illogical as any that Hindi movies can subject their followers to.
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I was not aware that Raj Kapoor and Meena Kumari worked together and that too at a time when he was known to act mostly opposite Nargis.
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