Posts Tagged ‘1970’
I know an acquaintance who would casually go to a “paan” shop, buy “paan” and talk to the “paanwaala” in an UP Bhaiyya style. If he saw a Baraat coming up with the Baraatis dancing, he would nonchalantly join the Baraat and dance a few jigs himself.
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This song from “Purab Aur Paschim” is the most well known patriotic song from Manoj Kumar, along with the “Upkaar” song.
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Dulhan Chali O pahan chali
Posted on: January 26, 2009
Here is yet another nationalistic song from a Manoj Kumar movie. The movie is “Purab Aur Paschhim” and the song is “Dulhan chali”.
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Madan Mohan not only got the best out of Lata, he did that with other singers as well. In fact, he had the knack of getting the best out of every singer he worked with, because he had the ability to guage the range of the singer’s voice and he would tailor his music accordingly. Thus we have singers as varied as Lata, Rafi, Kishore Kumar, Mukesh,Talat Mahmood, Asha Bhonsle, Bhupinder etc singing some of their most memorable songs under Madan Mohan.
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Kahta hai Joker saara zamana
Posted on: January 19, 2009
India of 1970 was a much more simple,unsophisticated, and underdeveloped in most respects. So much so that movie makers who decided to make different off beat movies were left in the lurch. Raj Kapoor was one such movie maker who paid heavily for overestimating the calibre of his audience. His ambitious labour of love “Mera Naam Joker” fell flat at the box office.
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“Chetna” was one of those offbeat movies which were far too ahead of its time to appeal to the audiences who were still unwilling to patronise such movies. As a result, these movies fell flat at the box office. Other movies of the same genre were “Dastak” and “Do Raaha”.
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Ponch kar ashq apni aankhon se
Posted on: January 17, 2009
When I got this song as farmaish, I wondered which song it was. I was sure I had never heard this song.
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Most of the movies where Madan Mohan gave music failed at the box office, but when it comes to their music, music of even these flop movies became popular. In fact, a large number of songs composed by Madan Mohan have gone on to become classics.
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Ghulabi aankhen jo teri dekhin
Posted on: January 7, 2009
Watching the picturisation of this song, I cannot help feeling that the maker of this movie must have had Shammi Kapoor in mind while picturising this song. And indeed, when one listens to this song, one gets the feeling that one is listening to one of the Rafi songs sung for Shammi Kapoor.
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“Kati Patang” is a movie that is teeming with great songs. I have already posted a few of them (three of them to be precise), but I am not done with the songs from this movie. There are still many great songs from this movie that are yet to be posted.
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