Posts Tagged ‘1956’
In Bollywood movies, music directors tended to create songs based on the range and singing ability of the singers. Singers with lesser range and lesser singing abilities got simpler songs to sing, whereas singers with greater skills were often asked to sing difficult songs.
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Hamaari gali aana
Posted on: September 11, 2009
“Mem Sahib”(1956) was a delightful movie that is guaranteed to warm the cockles of the listeners and watchers of this movie. This lovely movie had Kishore Kumar, Meena Kumari ( in a bubbly role), and Shammi Kapoor.
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O arabpati ki chhori
Posted on: September 9, 2009
This is a rare song, and a fabulous song. In fact, for long I was thinking of posting this song as one of my century scoring songs ( yes, I am approaching another century), but then I decided that there are far too many great songs lying there and if I keep them in abeyance waiting for them to be posted as century making songs then I may have to wait far too long.
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Though this song talks of “Chanda”, “raat” etc, which are found in “Chaayaageet” songs, this song from “Chhoo Mantar” sounds more like a dance song. After all, O P Nayyar is the music director of this song, and his music tended to be dance music. In “Chaayageet” songs, we do not expect the lovelorn protagonist to dance, he/ she is just expected to sing in a slow tempo. 😉
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I had posted a superb comedy song from “Parivaar” (1956) in the past which was sung by Kishore Kumar and picturised on himself. I now find that this movie, apart from this comedy song, had some superb semi classical songs sung by Lata and Hemant Kumar.
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Bollywood movies have songs on many topics, and the most important topic is obviously “love”. Boy is shown falling in love with a girl and is shown expressing his love with a song. The girl will initially disapprove of his attention then begin responding and would be found joining towards the end of the song.
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Iss paar saajan uss paar dhaaren
Posted on: August 26, 2009
I may have heard this song in the past but only in passing. This time I heard it attentively, and found out about its details. I came to know that this song was from “Chori Chori” (1956). Now I wonder just how many great songs were there in “Chori Chori” (1956).
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This song is an awesome “chaayaageet” song that one can enjoy the best at night time.
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Soonaa hai mere dil ka jahaan
Posted on: August 5, 2009
C Ramchandra was one of the earlier pioneers of Bollywood movie music. He was one of the first music directors to make the most of the voice of Lata. In fact, Lata-C Ramchandra compositions are comparable to Lata-Madan mohan compositions, which came later.
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Mere sapnon mein aana re sajnaa
Posted on: August 4, 2009
I have been posting songs in this blog for the last one year and I have wondered at the quantity and quality of songs that I did not know existed ! Many of my 1700 plus songs are songs which I had not heard before I began this blog.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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