Posts Tagged ‘1961’
Chaandi kaa gol gol chandaa
Posted on: May 22, 2010
Bollywood movies of the past may have been differentiated on the basis of their budget into A grade, B grade, C grade etc, but there was no such differentiation in the quality of music in all these movies. Even C grade movies used to have outstanding music. But the music of C grade movies suffered mostly because of lack of exposure since records of these songs were hardly made. And record players were in any case unaffordable for most music lovers.
Read more on this topic…
Aankhon mein masti sharaab ki
Posted on: April 15, 2010
I had never heard this song before. And I would have remained blissfully unaware of this song but for a long pending farmaish for this song.
Read more on this topic…
“Zabak” (1961) was a mythological Arabian Nights kind of movie produced by Homi Wadia. Mahipal and Shyama played lead roles in this movie.
Read more on this topic…
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.
Read more on this topic…
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 !
Read more on this topic…
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.
Read more on this topic…
“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.
Read more on this topic…
Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
Recent comments