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It has been pointed out by my readers that the song “Ramaiyya vasta vaiyya” from “Shree 420” (1955) is missing from the blog. Not just this song, I am sure many great gems of yesteryears are missing from the blog. But I will gradually add all these songs. The fact that so many great songs are still missing from this blog despite the blog boasting of over 2600 songs is an indication that there are far too many great songs that were created during the golden era of Bollywood movie music.
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Chal ri chali chal naiyya
Posted on: June 9, 2010
“Sardaar” (1955) is an obscure movie and very little details are available about this movie. Even its songs are extremely difficult to come by though the songs of this movie were popular during its days.
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I am aware of at least three movies called “Faraar”. These movies were released at a gap of 10 years beginning from 1955. In other words we had three movies by the same name, viz Faraar (1955), Faraar (1965) and Faraar (1975). In this blog, I have posted songs from all these movies.
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I have mentioned in an earlier post that song planning in Bollywood movies of the past was like familiy planning of the past, viz there used do be nearly a dozen or so issues in either case.
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When Kishore Kumar is in the frame, you expect him to take the centre stage and dominate the singing. Here is this song where Kishore Kumar for a change is at the receiving end of a song.
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Kitna badal gayaa Bhagwaan
Posted on: May 8, 2010
In 1954, the iconic song Kitna badal gaya insaan(Nastik)(1954) was released and that song took the nation by storm. This song in fact must be regarded as a song that has broken all barriers of time and this song has assured immortality for itself as well as its creators (namely Pradeep and C Ramchandra).
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Wo din kahaan gaye mere
Posted on: May 5, 2010
“Vachan” (1955) was the first movie of Ravi as an independent music director, and this movie saw Ravi’s career getting launched in a grand way. In this movie, Ravi composed an iconic song viz “Chandaa mama door ke”.
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Music director Ravi (full name Ravishankar Sharma) does not occupy as much mindshare in public mind as many other music directors of the golden era of Bollywood movie music do . Many younger music lovers in fact ask “Ravi who ?” when his name crops up in discussions.
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Barkhaa ki raat mein he ho haa
Posted on: April 14, 2010
There are some songs about which I come to know by reading about them. But when I look for them, these songs are extremely elusive, as they are not available anywhere.
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Mud mud ke na dekh mud mud ke
Posted on: April 13, 2010
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I just realised that I had posted very few songs from “Shri 420″(1955) in this blog. To make amends, I posted one song yesterday. Here is another song from this movie.
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