Posts Tagged ‘1969’
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Prem Dhawan is better known as a lyricist who has had a very long stint of more than 5 decades in the Hindi film industry.
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Nazar mein bijli adaa mein sholey
Posted on: March 27, 2011
After a long time, here is another song of the much loved genre- viz a Rafi -Shammi Kapoor song. This song is from “Prince” (1969) which is one of the last Shammi Kapoor style movies after which the days of Shammi Kapoor movies was over. It was good while lasted.And these movies continue to enthrall the movie watchers even today.
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Here is a song that wears many hats. this song is a romantic/love song. In addition, this song is also a jeep song, and also an “elephant” song. Yes, the protagonists of this song, viz Jeetendra and Aparna Sen are expressing their love for each other while driving on a jeep and also while riding an elephant.
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Chaandi ki deewaar na todi
Posted on: March 13, 2011
I think I may have decoded the formula for the inclusion of Hindi movie songs in mainstream movies of the golden era. 🙂
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Andhere mein jo baithhe hain
Posted on: March 11, 2011
“Sambandh” (1969) was a movie based on a Bangla novel. This movie had Pradeep Kumar,Deb Mukherji,Anjana Manjrekar (later Anjana Mumtaz),Sulochana etc in it. The movie was produced by Shashdhar Mukherji to launch the acting career of his son Deb Mukherji, just as he had helped launch the career of his eldest son Joy Mukherji one decade back with a home production movie, viz ‘Love in Shimla” (1960).
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Dhol bajaa dhol dhol jaaniyaa
Posted on: March 9, 2011
Like most music lovers, I tend to know only about the better known songs from most movies and I am often in the dark about songs that failed to make it big. Often, one can come across special songs even among these forgotten songs.
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Bahaaron ki baaraat aa gayi
Posted on: February 1, 2011
Though I have seen “Yakeen” (1969) in a movie hall, I do not remember most of its details except a couple of songs that I have already discussed in this blog. I in fact do not even remember the other songs from this movie.
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Rajesh Khanna, who was born on 29th December 1942, made his mark as a superstar in Hindi movies sometime in the second half of 1969, when “Aradhana” (1969) was released. This movie gave him an identity and a persona which became his trademark.
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Aa jaao aa bhi jaao
Posted on: December 29, 2010
29th december is the birthday of Rajesh Khanna, who was the most influential actor of the era when I was growing up in late 1960s-early 1970s. On this occasion, I will discuss a few songs picturised on Rajesh Khanna that have not yet been discussed here.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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