Posts Tagged ‘1963’
Even obscure movies can have wonderful music, as I have realised very well by now. And when it comes to finding out about obscure movies, Memsaab Story is just the blog. It is there that I learnt about obscure movies like “Miss Mary”,”Oonche Log”,”Ek Raaz”,”Aaya Toofaan”,”Reporter Raju” etc.Not just that, Greta (Memsaab) can identify lots and lots of humorous situations in these movies ( not intended to be humorous by the makers of these movies, incidentally).
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“Tajmahal” (1963) was a musical blockbuster and its songs had swept classes and masses off their feet in 1963. This movie was the pinnacle of Roshan’s career. In fact, 1963 was a year in which Roshan was at the peak of his career. Several of his movies released this year were musical blockbusters.
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Uyi maa uyi maa ye kyaa ho gayaa
Posted on: June 10, 2009
“Parasmani” (1963), a C grade mythological movie starring Mahipal and Geetanjali has gone on to become a memorable movie, thanks to its music.
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O zaraa bachke o baliye bachke
Posted on: June 9, 2009
Listening to this song, one may think that it is an O P Nayyar composition. It has the typical O P Nayyar kind of music and it is sung by Mahendra Kapoor and Asha Bhonsle.
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“Tajmahal” (1963) is one movie that is one of the biggest musical blockbusters of all time. Almost every song from this movie went on to become a timeless classic. The songs of this movie became hugely popular with masses and classes both.
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“Gehra Daagh” was a movie of 1963. I was not aware about this movie till recently ( that is till yesterday).
This movie had Rajendra Kumar and Mala Sinha in lead roles.
Just because I was not aware of this movie does not mean this movie has unknown songs. Take this song from this movie. This song “tumhe paake hamne jahaan paa liyaa hai” is a duet sung by Asha Bhonsle and Rafi. I am sure that I have listened to this song many a times in the past, though I was not paying much attention on those occasions.
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Chaandi ka badan sone ki nazar
Posted on: May 16, 2009
I have posted over a thousand songs in this blog so far. Most songs are 3 to 4 minutes long and their lyrics are about 200 words long. But this qawwali is nearly ten minutes long and its lyrics runs into 800 words !
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Parda uthe salaam ho jaaye
Posted on: May 9, 2009
Manna Dey was one singer, who despite his ability, was typecast as a singer for bit actors. There were very few movies where he got to sing for the hero. But whenever he got such a chance, he came up with some superb songs.
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Matwaali aankhon waale
Posted on: May 6, 2009
“Chhote Nawab”(1963) was a movie that was Mehmood’s home production and he acted as the hero in this movie. The biggest contribution of Mehmood in this movie was introducing R D Burman as an independent music director.
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Hiya jarat rahat din rain
Posted on: April 18, 2009
In most Bollywood movies, characters speak and sing in mainstream Hindi/ Urdu, but there are movies where they speak a bit differently. For instance, all villagers in Bollywood movies speak in a dialect that is supposedly Bhojpuri even if those villagers live in Sikkim !
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