Posts Tagged ‘1969’
“Satyakaam” (1969), which was a critically acclaimed movie that failed at the box office, had some nice songs in it which have sadly been forgotten with time. And there are people like me who never heard the songs of this movie, despite living though that era.
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Abhi kyaa sunoge suna to hansoge
Posted on: December 8, 2010
Dharmendra and Sharmila Tagore, who share their birthday (8 october) also shared the screen space together in several movies. One of these movies was “Satyakaam” (1969).
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Raju ka hai ek khwaab
Posted on: November 12, 2010
Here is a song that I had never heard before. I became aware of this song only because of the farmaish for this song.
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This post is written by Raja, a regular contributor of posts to this blog and a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movies and its music
In the history of Hindi film songs – and we are talking then about several thousand songs – there have been a few really, really, REALLY popular ones. There have been many very good ones but as we know, not all good songs end up being popular with the masses. One need look no further than many of Manna Dey’s songs which were of extremely high quality but whose popularity was largely limited to the classes, not the masses.
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Dil aawaaraa kare nazaaraa
Posted on: September 24, 2010
What happens when a producer wants to remake a James Bond kind of movie in Hindi but his finances only allow him the luxury of making a C grade movie ? He comes up with a movie called “Ushaad 420” (1969).
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Daanton taley dabaa kar honth
Posted on: September 1, 2010
This post is written by Raja, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor of posts to this blog
Till 1974-75, when Rajesh Khanna’s movies began losing their appeal (for me at least), I was happy to watch any Rajesh movie for him alone. There was almost always at least one good song to enjoy in the movie. And very often more than one.
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This post is written by Raja, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor of posts to this blog
As is well-known, Aradhana was THE movie that was the turning point in Rajesh Khanna’s career. However, he did act in a few movies before Aradhana.
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Aaye baithe khaaye piye khiske
Posted on: August 21, 2010
“Ek Shrimaan Ek Shrimaan” (1969), which is not remembered much today is a tresure of fantastic songs. Surprisingly, I had not heard these songs when this movie and its songs were released in 1969.
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“Ek Shrimaan Ek Shrimati” (1969) is a movie that has so many fantastic songs in it that I wonder why this movie is not all that well known. Considering how songs played major parts in the success of movies, this movie should have gone on to become a major hit on the basis of its music alone.
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This post is written by Raja, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie songs and a regular visitor and contributor of this blog
One of the biggest miracles of India has got to be its cultural diversity. A people with so many different languages, so many different customs, different religions still co-exist next to each other and are unified under one umbrella – the flag of India.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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