Posts Tagged ‘1963’
I have heard this song many a times, but I was not aware of any details about this song except the obvious one that the song is sung by Rafi.
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Hindi movie songs are reputed to be sung by the hero and heroine while running around trees. But what happens when the lady has injured herself and is unable to even walk, let alone run ? Does the hero abandon her and runs around trees with some other lady ? Not if the hero is Sunil Dutt. Sunil Dutt is one hero who would take care of his ladies in their moments of need.
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Listening to Pradeep’s songs is always a divine experience. Pradeep wrote with his heart and sang with his heart too, and the message contained in the song went straight to the listeners’s hearts.
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Mere mehboob mein kyaa nahin
Posted on: October 16, 2010
Two female singers dancing in tandem was a staple diet of B grade historical/ mythological movies of 1960s. But here we find the same thing happening in a Muslim social movie. The movie is “Mere Mehboob” (1963) and here Sadhana and Ameeta are found dancing and singing joyously. They sing in the voices of Lata and Asha Bhonsle respectively.
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Balmaa anaadi man bhaaye
Posted on: October 9, 2010
These days I do not have the patience to sit through a Hindi movie. I instead watch the songs and try to guess the plot from the songs.
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This song can be put into several categories. This song narrowly misses from becoming a “movie opening song”. The song begins immediately after the credits disappear from the screen. Guru Dutt and Mala Sinha are just married and it is their suhaag raat. But Guru Dutt, instead of taking interest in his newly wedded bride, complains that he cannot get sleep because of her.
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Joohi ki kali mere laadli
Posted on: September 29, 2010
“Dil Ek Mandir” (1963) is a movie starring Rajendra Kumar and Meena Kumari. This movie, like most movies of those days, is full of memorable songs.
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There are people who think that Asha Bhonsle mostly sang light songs (cabarat etc) and she did not sing “serious” songs or song based on classical raagas. Of course that is not correct. Most songs in Hindi movies are indeed based on some Raag. The singers and music directors, whether they are trained or not follow the framework of raagas, unless it is a western song that they are composing.
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Tumse izhaar e haal kar baithe
Posted on: September 9, 2010
There is one genre of movies that is popularly known as Muslim socials. These are love stories among Muslim characters. These movies tend to have spectacular music in it typically composed by Ravi, Naushad,Roshan, Laxmikant Pyarelal etc. The lyrics of these songs are quite poetic with reference to words like “hizaab”, “Bahaar”, “Shokhi”,”mehboob” etc.
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