Posts Tagged ‘1960’
Mori cham cham baaje paayaliyaa
Posted on: May 14, 2009
In Bollywood,one actor usually sings in the voice of one playback singer, and in case another actor has to sing, voice of another singer is used for that.
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Ye duniya patang
Posted on: May 14, 2009
Rajinder Krishan liked to use the word “patang” (kite) whenever he got an opportunity to do so. And he has written some memorable “patang” songs in movies like “Nagin”, ‘Bhabhi” etc.
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Ye duniya badi luteri
Posted on: May 13, 2009
But for the farmaish of this song, I was neither aware of this song nor the movie called “patang” (1960).
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Laage naa moraa jiyaa
Posted on: May 13, 2009
Asha Parekh, who acted as a child artist for several years, first acted as a grown up in Aasha ( 1957), though she was not credited there. She then acted in Dil Deke Dekho, Ham Hindustani and Ghooghat.
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Jaadugar qaatil haazir hai mera dil
Posted on: May 6, 2009
In Bollywood movies, whatver be the profession of the hero, he is mostly seen singing rather than engaging in his profession.
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Saanjh dhali dil ki lagi
Posted on: May 3, 2009
Most leading heroes had their standard playback singers. Thus Raj Kapoor had Mukesh, Shammi Kapoor and Rajendra Kumar had Rafi, Vishwajeet had Hemant Kumar, Sunil Dutt had Mahendra Kapoor ( in B R Chopra movies) etc.
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Saathi na koyi manzil
Posted on: May 2, 2009
In late 1950s and early 1960s, there were quite a few movies with “Bambai” in their title. Thus we had titles like “Bambai ka chor” and “Mr X in Bombay” those days.
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Khoya khoya chaand khulaa aasmaan
Posted on: April 27, 2009
By now I have posted more than a thousand songs from the golden era of Bollywood music. It can be easily noticed that lyrics played a very important roles in the success of these songs. In 1980s and later, lyrics lost its importance in the minds of the music directors and from that time onwards, songs lost their soul and their longevity. However great the singing and music may be, unless the singer and music director has a good song to work with, the song cannot hope to become popular.
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Permit permit permit
Posted on: April 21, 2009
These days, we take many things in life for granted. But that was not the case in the past. In India of 1950s, for example, one needed permits for even small things in life- viz drinking. Yes, though Indians had adopted democracy, the official mindset was very much that of socialism.
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“Chhaliya”(1960) was a Raj Kapoor movie and it had Mukesh singing for him as usual. But its music team was not Shailendra and Shankar Jaikishan. Rather, Qamar Jalalabadi had written the songs and Kalyanji Anandji, then in their early years as music directors had got this big break to compose music in this movie. This movie incidentally was the debut movie for director Manmohan Desai as well.
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