Posts Tagged ‘1962’
I recently found a rail song in a Shammi Kapoor movie called ‘Boyfriend”. And now I find that the “professor” song “main chali main chali” is a rail song as well ! And all these days I was thinking that I had already discovered all the rail songs a few months ago. May be I need to watch more Shammi Kapoor songs.
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Aap yoonhi agar hamse milte rahe
Posted on: December 3, 2008
Going by the lyrics, I have classified this song as a love song, but it appears that the love is unilateral in this song despite this being a duet. The hero, Joy Mukherjee is sincere in expressing his love for the lady, but the lady, Sadhana is just playing along, without feeling the same sentiments.
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Yahi hai tamanna
Posted on: December 2, 2008
The two leading Bollywood men, who looked like they could sweet ladies off their feet with effortless ease were Shammi Kapoor and Dharmendra. And here Dharmendra works his charms on Supriya Chowdhury.
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Here is a very very moving song dedicated to those who lay down their lives to protect national boundary from external threats. This song from “haqeeqat” has become an iconic song. Today, now that India is paying its respects to the martyrs who laid down their lives to fight terrorists who had attacked Mumbai, this song is being played in TV channels.
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Mujhe dekhkar aap ka muskuraana
Posted on: November 24, 2008
“Ek Musafir Ek Haseena” was a movie featuring Joy Mukherjee and Sadhana. The music was by O P Nayyar and lyrics were written by Raja Mehdi Ali Khan ( known more for writing lyrics for Madan Mohan). Rafi, as is his wont creates magic with his divine voice in this song.
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Chhoti si ye duniya
Posted on: November 19, 2008
Considering that it is Shailendra who wrote the lyrics and Shankar Jaikishan who composed the music, it could as well be Mukesh singing for Raj Kapoor, but here it is Kishore Kumar singing for himself in “Rangoli”.
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Nanha munna raahi hoon
Posted on: November 13, 2008
India of 1960s was a much more simple and uncomplicated nation, where cynicism about the nation and its leaders had yet to take roots. People actually looked upto the national leaders. Every household compulsorily had the pictures of national leaders on their drawing room walls. Framed photographs of Mahatma Gandhi, Rajendra Prasad, and Jawaharlal Nehru were there in all households.
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Singer is Mukesh, lyricist is Shailendra and composers are Shankar Jaikishan. One may be forgiven to think that it must be a song picturised on Raj Kapoor. But no, this is a song from “Hariyali aur Raasta”, a movie featuring Manoj Kumar.
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This is a song from “Son of India”, which was a movie of 1962 and it had one very popular song called “Nanha munha raahi hoon main desh ka sipaahi hoon”. This movie had other popular songs as well.
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Rungoli sajaao
Posted on: October 28, 2008
In 1950s and early 1960s, Kishore Kumar, in addition to playback singing, acted as an actor cum singer in movies. He was in fact the lead actor in many such movies, and he made a reasonably popular pair with Vyjyanti Mala those days.
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