Posts Tagged ‘1968’
kamar patli nazar bijli
Posted on: April 12, 2009
If one watched a bollywood movie in 1960s and 1970s, one was sure to have a Helen dance accompanied by a song. This song will have little relevance to the story line of the movie and Helen will not be found anywhere else in the movie, but her dance was still regarded as a major attraction of the movie.
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O P Nayyar had fixed singing templates for his singers to follow. His female singers needed to sing in Asha Bhonsle style, and his male singers needed to sing in Rafi style. In case one of these singers were not available for recording the song, then the replacement singer was required to sing in the same way.
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Waadiyaan mera daaman
Posted on: April 9, 2009
During my childhood, I got to hear lots of loudspeaker songs ( viz songs blaring out of loudspeakers) where no details of movies, lyrics and music directors were available. Of course that did not prevent one from enjoying these songs. But since these details were not known, one forgot these songs as they stopped being played on loudspeakers.
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Aankhon mein qayaamat ke kaajal
Posted on: April 8, 2009
O P Nayyar, a headstrong music director who ruled the roost for much of 1950s tended to alienate people even close to him. By the time he was creating the music of “Kismat”, he was not on speaking tems with Rafi and so he used the voice of Mahendra Kapoor in the songs of “Kismat”. Mahendra Kapoor was required to sing Rafi style, and he did a competent job of it.
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Tumhaari nazar kyun khafaa ho gayi
Posted on: April 4, 2009
This song is from “Do Kaliyaan” though I was not aware of this fact when I used to listen to this popular song on loudspeakers during my younger days. Needless to say, I was not aware who were the actors on whom this song was picturised.
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Chhod de saari duniya kisi ke liye
Posted on: March 29, 2009
“Saraswati Chandra” (1968) was a movie which had Nutan in the lead role with a debutant hero ( what was his name ? Well, that is how unknown he turned out to be).
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Armaan thha hamen jinka
Posted on: March 25, 2009
I have posted a few songs from “Aulaad” (1968) already. This movie had some nice songs that were written by Majrooh Sultanpuri and composed by Chitragupta.
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In 1960s, there used to be a category of song that could be called “Radio” song. In this, the hero or heroine would sing a song and the heroine/ hero, as the case may be would listen to the song attentively.
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I have heard this song many a times. Knowing who the singer was no problem, and knowing that the song was from “Mere Huzoor” was no problem too, but that is all I knew about this song.
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Chalo sajna jahaan tak ghata chale
Posted on: March 14, 2009
There are so many movies starting with “Mere..” that I am confused. The confusion is further compounded by the fact that most of these movies are full of hit songs.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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