Posts Tagged ‘1961’
O nirdayi preetam
Posted on: November 23, 2009
It is often said that one needs to use heavy duty Urdu words to come up with romantic ( as well as other kinds of) songs, and people agree. But the facts are, most of the lyricists in the formative years of Bollywood movie songs were more familiar with Urdu and they created such songs using words they were more comfortable with. Listeners who were not familiar with Urdu were often clueless about many words in these songs. Many listeners, such as yours truly, did not know what words like “ulfat”, fitrat” etc meant. People would guess about the meanings of these words in the context of the topic. Sometimes their guess would turn out to be correct, and sometimes not.
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Dekho naa jaao ae jaaneman
Posted on: November 13, 2009
“Boyfriend”(1961) is a little known movie that had Shammi Kapoor and Madhubala in it ! And Dharmendra too !
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Hamko bhi de de sahaara
Posted on: November 5, 2009
“Zabak” (1961) was a movie that is not known to too many people, considering that it was an B grade movie. Its music was A grade, of course.
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“Opera House” (1961) , which is a forgotten movie, starred Ajit and B Saroja Devi in lead roles. Since the movie was a B grade movie, its songs did not have the opportunity to get popular because not too many people got to listen to them.
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Raste mein tere kabse hain khade
Posted on: November 3, 2009
“Opera House” (1961) was a B grade movie in which Ajit and Saroja Devi were the lead actors. I am surprised to notice that I have posted only one song from this movie which had some lovely songs in it.
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I have posted three awesome songs from “Maaya” (1961). It turns out that there is another great song in this movie. Here is this song- “Koyi sone ke dil waala koyi chaandi ke dil waala”.
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Dil ka fasaana koi na jaanaa
Posted on: October 20, 2009
1960 was a decade that saw some memorable qawwalis being created. It is not just Roshan and Ravi who created them, even some lesser known music directors came up with nice qawwalis.
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Ye aankhen uff yumma
Posted on: October 12, 2009
The movie “Jab pyaar kisi se hota hai” (1961) had music by Shankar Jaikishan, lyrics by Hasrat Jaipuri, songs by Rafi and Lata, the lead actress was Asha Parekh. All that this movie needed was Shammi Kapoor.
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One tends to associate Raj Kapoor’s movies of 1950s and 1960s with Shankar Jaikishan’s music, but there are quite a few Raj Kapoor movies even in those days which had music by other music directors.
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