Posts Tagged ‘1970’
Teetar ke do aage teetar
Posted on: February 21, 2009
“Mera Naam Joker” was a labour of love for its makers, but nothing went right for it.
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Bainya na dharo balma
Posted on: February 21, 2009
“Dastak” was far ahead of its time in 1970 when it was released. Forget 1970, the movie is ahead of its time even if it was released in 2009.
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This is a song which very much contains the name of its movie as well. Yes, “aaja tujhko pukaare mere geet” is a song from “Geet”. And as iconic songs go, this song is as iconic as they come.
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Milo na tum to ham ghabraayen
Posted on: February 11, 2009
Like Rafi-Shammi Kapoor songs and Mukesh-Raj Kapoor songs,there used to be another great combination in the past, and that was Lata-Madan Mohan songs. These two have created many wonderful songs during their association of about 24 years.
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Baabul kaun ghadi ye aayi
Posted on: February 8, 2009
There have been quite a few memorable songs in Bollywood movies covering various aspects of Indian weddings. There have been baraat songs, there have been bidaayi songs etc. In fact some movies viz “Aapke hai kaun” allegedly was nothing more than a video of a wedding.
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Most people may think that the most high energy Rafi songs have been sung for Shammi Kapoor. But which is the song where Rafi has been at his most energetic ?
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There were quite a few songs containing “Zindagi” in their lyrics those days, and almost all of them were very popular songs. In fact, it was like each one of these songs gave a different interpretation of “Zindagi”. Some song would call “Zindagi” “ek paheli”, some would call it a “naatak”, some would call it a “khel” etc.
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Jhilmil sitaaron ka aangan hoga
Posted on: February 5, 2009
I have listened to this song many a times during my childhood. I had no idea which movie this song was from.
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Madan Mohan always felt shortchanged by public and media since he never got the credit for his music that he richly deserved.
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Pyaar pe koyi bas to nahin hai
Posted on: February 3, 2009
Most movies that are remembered by future generations are those which are made by established film makers with established personnel. It is rare to find a movie made by novice filmakers with novice personnel hit the jackpot. Most of the time, such movies fail miserably, and quite deservedly too.
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