Posts Tagged ‘1982’
Tumko dekha to ye khayaal aayaa
Posted on: October 12, 2011
In most Hindi movies, the actors lead reel lives that has little resemblence to real life of normal people. And it was widely believed (and the myths are further perpetuated by people) that movie watchers used movies to live their fantasies and so they wanted to relive their fantasies in the movies instead of being reminded of their day to day life. And that explained the larger than life characters in Hindi movies.
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Dekh lo aaj hamko jee bhar ke
Posted on: June 8, 2011
The dominant kind of music in 1980s was disco music. It was this kind of music that sounded the death knell of the golden era of Hindi movie music.
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When I meet people and I tell them that I have a blog of old songs, I get some well meaning advices, suggestions etc. One of these well meaning suggestions is that I need not re invent the wheel as far as writing down the lyrics of the song is concerned. Lyrics of all these songs are available in many sites, I am told almost patronisingly.
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By mid 1970s, Dilip Kumar had all but retired from acting. But Ramesh Sippy pursuaded him to come back from retirement and act again. This much awaited comeback vehicle of Dilip Kumar was “Shakti” (1982). In this movie, Dilip Kumar plays an upright police officer for whom his duty comes before his family.
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Ae hawaa ye bataa
Posted on: October 10, 2010
Few people today may have heard of this movie called “Ghazab” (1982). I , on the other hand, not only know about this movie, I have seen this movie and it is one of those movies that I liked. The story of this movie was different and that made me like this movie.
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By 1980s, the lyrics of Hindi movie songs had become much more functional and basic. In many cases, the songs of that era virtually dispensed with the need of any meaningful lyrics and managed with gibberish passing for lyrics.
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Meri qismat mein tu nahin shaayad
Posted on: August 25, 2010
The initial movies of Raj Kapoor were made with Raj Kapoor as hero and Nargis/Vyjyanti Mala/Padmini etc as leading lady. And in these movies Shankar Jaikishan would compose the music. This combination was repeated till “Mera Naam Joker” (1970). This movie flopped big time and Raj Kapoor found himself on the verge of bankruptcy.
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Jawaan jaaneman haseen dilruba
Posted on: March 27, 2010
I like to listen to old songs as is obvious from the songs posted here. But what about the present generation ? They obviously listen to the contemporary music. But it is for people like us to make them aware of the musical treasures of the old movies.
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Saanchi kahen tore aawan se hamre
Posted on: March 13, 2010
I have been posting the songs of “Nadiya Ke Paar” (1982) these days. This movie had some very fine hummable songs in it.
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Gunja re…Chandan Chandan
Posted on: March 10, 2010
I have posted two songs from “Nadiya Ke Paar” (1982). This movie is full of wonderful heart warming songs in it. With time, I feel that these songs have become even sweeter to listen to.
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