Posts Tagged ‘1970’
This song is as rare as a hen’s teeth, I suppose. And it is rare is many ways than one.
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Rut bekaraar hai shaam e bahaar hai
Posted on: May 27, 2009
Here is a song from “Maa aur Mamtaa” (1970). I had never heard of this movie. Nor had I come across this song “rut bekaraar hai shaam e bahaar hai” from this movie.
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This is one song I remember listening to in my younger days. This was just the kind of song that kids would enjoy listening to. And like many such songs of those days, I had no details available about the song.
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Mere mehboob tere dam se hai duniya
Posted on: May 22, 2009
In the past, I have posted a song from a 1970 movie called “Bhai Bhai”. This movie had Sunil Dutt and Asha Parekh in lead roles.
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Doongi tainu reshmi roomaal
Posted on: May 18, 2009
Bollywood movies have many songs based on folk music of various states. Folk music of punjab has been the source for many such songs.
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Mera man tera pyaasaa
Posted on: April 23, 2009
I have posted one song from “Gambler”(1970) in the past. Somhow I keep confusing among the songs of “Gambler”, “Guide”, “Prem Pujari” etc. All these movies had Dev Anand and Waheeda Rahman in them, if I am not mistaken, and all these movies had music by S D Burman.
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“Johny Mera Naam” (1970) was perhaps the last time a Dev Anand movie turned out to be very successful at box office, though “Des Pardes” (1978) was also successful.
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Ik tera sundar mukhda
Posted on: April 20, 2009
I was aware of a movie called “Bhai bhai” released in 1940s, but I never knew that a movie of the same name was made in 1970 too. This 1970 movie must have done really poorly at the box office to be so unknown.
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Tum apni saheli ko
Posted on: April 17, 2009
Prem Chopra was an actor who is “fondly” remembered for playing roles of a villainous smooth operator always lusting after the heroine.
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Phoolon ke rang se
Posted on: April 16, 2009
One reason why many old songs ( 1970s and earlier) are popular is of course to do with nice music in these songs. Moreover, the music directors ( there were many outstanding music directors at that time) recognised the value of lyrics. And they would wait for lyricists to write their songs.
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