Posts Tagged ‘1960’
Dil meraa naache thunak thunak
Posted on: September 4, 2010
There are several Hindi movies with grand sounding titles, but here is a very homely kind of a title for a movie. It is called “Mera Ghar Mere Bachche” (1960), which means “My home and my kids”. How very plebian !
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Beet gayi hai aadhi raat
Posted on: August 31, 2010
In my definition, Chaayaageet song is one which is sung in the period between 10 PM to midnight. :D. That way, a song talking about a period after midnight is not a chaagyaageet song. May be I should call such a song as “post Chaayaageet period” song.
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Chaand ko dekho ji
Posted on: August 29, 2010
There are people who preach us to save for a rainy day. If you talk to me about saving for a rainy day,I will reel off the list of songs picturised on a rainy day to try and prove that rainy days are as much fun as sunny days. If one does not save for a sunny day, then why should one do so for a rainy day ? One should instead enjoy rainy days by getting drenched in the rain instead of hiding indoors. Next thing you know, the same people may ask us to save for a moonlit night saying that nights are for going to bed !
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Here is a song from “Ek Phool Chaar Kaante” (1960). I had read a lot about this song, the last such reading being in the farmaish page of this blog. 😀
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Johny Walker, who mostly played a comedian in Hindi movie had become so popular that he began to command one song per movie which was typically sung by Rafi. This song was often a major highlight of the movie.
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This song from “Kohinoor”(1960) is an ultimate “Chhaayaageet” song which is my way of saying that this romantic song is ideal for listening to at late night. And indeed many listeners may have listened to this song in the late night “Vividh Bharati” programme of this name.
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When I was a youngster in my teens, I was under the impression that old songs meant boring songs, which were mostly like Ghazal, sad songs etc. But it is only much later that I realised that some wonderful light hearted songs too were created those days. I have already posted many of them in this blog.
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Few people know that the Sitar maestro Pt Ravi Shankar had initially tried his hands as a music director in Hindi movies before he found his true calling as a Sitar exponent. He in fact gave music in a few Hindi movies in his early days.
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Ye waadaa karen jahaan bhi rahen
Posted on: August 8, 2010
When one talks of “Dil Bhi Tera Ham bhi Tere” (1960), then only one song comes to the mind of most people and that song is Mujhko iss raat ki tanhaayi me aawaaz na do. But this movie had other songs in it too.
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