Posts Tagged ‘1963’
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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“Tere Ghar Ke Saamne” (1963) is full of songs that have become classics. I have already posted one such song. Here is another.
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Naghma e dil ko chhed ke
Posted on: April 11, 2009
Here is a forgotten but nice song from a forgotten movie called “Ek Raaz” (1963)
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Dil ka bhanwar kare pukaar
Posted on: April 5, 2009
Here is a very typical situation. Boy meets girl. After a few meetings, the boy wants to express his love for her. But he is too shy. How to say it ?
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Tum hi tum ho mere jeewan mein
Posted on: March 24, 2009
I found it interesting that the same Shankar Jaikishan, who were the regular music directors of Raj Kapoor were the regular music directors of Shammi Kapoor as well. But while SJ would use Mukesh ( and sometimes Manna Dey) for Raj Kapoor and create hit songs, they would create hit songs with Rafi for Shammi Kapoor.
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Phir tumhaari yaad aayi ai sanam
Posted on: March 24, 2009
Here is a song which I do not recall having listened to in the past. It is a qawwaali, and one that appeals to the listener the very first time one listens to it.
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Ye kaisi ajab daastaan ho gayi hai
Posted on: March 23, 2009
Suraiyya, who was a big name singer-actor in 1940s insisted on singing only for herself. As a result, when the era of specialist playback singers dawned in 1950s, Suraiyya found few takers for her acting-cum-singing. Had she agreed to be mainly a playback singer, she could have had a long innings, but she would not sing for others.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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