Posts Tagged ‘1968’
Dooriyaan nazdeekiyaan ban gayin
Posted on: June 11, 2009
This movie called “Duniya” (1968) managed to remain obscure despite boasting names such as Dev Anand and Vyjyanti Mala. Dev Saab continued his herogiri despite such failures, but Vyjyanti Mala’s reign as one of biggest heoines of those days came to an end soon thereafter.
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I am seriously considering opening a new category of songs called “Helen” songs. And this category will certainly have many entries, considering that a cabaret by Helen was a must in most mainstream Bollywood movies for much of 1960s and 1970s.
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Bekhudi mein sanam uth gaye jo qadam
Posted on: June 2, 2009
To this date I have not been able to understand how Shashi Kapoor has such a long and successful career. I find that most of his successful movies were multi statter movies where others contributed more to the success of the movies. Shashi Kapoor just cashed in on the success of these movies.
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Jaagi badan mein jwaala
Posted on: May 17, 2009
“Izzat” (1968) is a movie starring Dharmendra. But for me, this movie interests me because this movie also had Jayalalitha, who then was an up and coming actress of Tamil movies.
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Today, 16th may 2009 is the day when the results of Indian general elections will be known. It is expected that no party will get an absolute majority and so attempts will be made to cobble up a coalition government at the centre. Some local political leaders will play a big role in this exercise.
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Kisi patthar ki moorat se
Posted on: May 14, 2009
This is a piano song cum party song in the sense that this song is sung by Sunil Dutt seated on a piano in a party.
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He neele gagan ke tale
Posted on: May 13, 2009
“Hamraaz” (1968) was a musical blockbuster. The songs of this movie were hugely popular among all age groups of people.
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“Aankhen” (1968) begins with its its title/ theme song as the credits roll in. This song, sung by Rafi is quite a soul stirring song, one that rouse passions. Sahir Ludhianvi has written this song. His brief was to write a song on “Aankhen”, and he came up with this amazing song.
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“Aankhen” appears to be a very popular title for a Bollywood movie. The debut movie of Madan Mohan was called “Aanken” and in the last one decade or so, we have had two movies by this name- one starring Govinda and another one starring Amitabh Bachchan.
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Tum agar saath dene ka waada karo
Posted on: May 11, 2009
Mahendra Kapoor was one singer who was a B R Chopra loyalist and he was the male playback singer of choice in all the movies made by B R Chopra’s banner.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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