Posts Tagged ‘1973’
Aaj mausam bada beimaan hai
Posted on: November 30, 2008
If news channels decide to work Bollywood style where every news would be presented in the form of a song, then which song would be sung for weather news ?
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Gham ka fasaana ban gaya achcha
Posted on: November 29, 2008
“Manchali” was a lovely romantic comedy movie starring Sanjeev Kumar and Leena Chandawarkar. The movie is also notable for its music and songs.
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tan man dhan sab hai tera
Posted on: November 26, 2008
“Tan man dhan sab hai tera” was a song that I heard many a times in 1970s, without getting to know any details about this song. I could make out that the singer was Mukesh, but that is all I knew about this song.
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“Loafer” saw Mumtaz teaming up with Dharmendra. This movie was full of very popular songs. Laxmikant Pyarelal’s music and Anand Bakshi’s lyrics created songs which were quite a rage in those days.
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Koi nahin hai mera
Posted on: November 21, 2008
“Samjhauta”(1973) was a movie that went unnoticed. Many people may not even have heard of this movie or its songs. Personally I heard its title song viz “samjhauta ghamon se kar lo”, but I have not been able to locate its video.
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Pal pal dil ke paas
Posted on: November 17, 2008
I have posted a few songs in this blog that I call “chitthi” songs. In all those songs, the words “chitthi”, “daakiya” or “sandeshe” was mentioned prominently. These chitthis were written by near and dear ones staying in far flung areas.
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Main yaar manana ni
Posted on: November 5, 2008
Here is a Laxmikant Pyarelal song full of verve and enthusiasm. Such songs were typically the preserve of Asha Bhonsle, but this particular song has been sung by Lata and Minoo Purushottam, and the result is a song that was very popular during its days.
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Jaidev served as assistants to leading music directors of his era for most of his career. On a few occasions that he got to compose music as an independent music director, he did a very good job. But it takes a lot more than just the ability to compose great music. Jaidev composed some fantastic music, but his name would not sell as a music director, so he repaetedly had to go back to his job as assistants to leading music directors viz S D Burman, Madan Mohan etc.
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Barkha rani zara jam ke barso
Posted on: October 24, 2008
There are different songs for different times and moods. When it is time for rains, it is time for love to blossom in Bollywood. That way, I have always felt that the Valentine day (and season) in Bollywood is not in the spring season, but in the rainy season.
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Haan to main kya kah raha thha
Posted on: October 21, 2008
I have posted a few songs where readers of this blog commented like- “it is the first time I have heard this song”. This time the shoe is on the other foot. It is one of the readers of this blog, who sent his farmaish for this song, and I was like ” which is this song? I am not even aware of the name of the movie, let alone this song.”
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