Posts Tagged ‘Ajit’
In the second half of 1950s, we had movie titles beginning with Miss, Mr and so on. thus we had movies like Miss India, Miss India, Mr X, Mr and Mrs 55 etc.
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In Bollywood movie songs, “dil” (heart” ) is an important subject of songs. In these songs, “dil” is desrcibed like it is a glassware. It gets broken, and also stolen- and that too at the hands of the beloved.
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In Bollywood, actors tend to be typecast, and most people tend to have a preconceived notions about the roles played by various actors.
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“Opera House” (1961) , which is a forgotten movie, starred Ajit and B Saroja Devi in lead roles. Since the movie was a B grade movie, its songs did not have the opportunity to get popular because not too many people got to listen to them.
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“Guest House” (1959) is an obscure movie by now. It is a movie where Ajit and Shakila played lead roles. Yes, those were the days when Ajit used to act as hero.
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This movie called “Miss Bombay” (1957) is as obscure a movie as any. Few people now remember this movie and indeed its songs.
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Chaand ki sundar nagri mein
Posted on: July 10, 2009
“Dholak” (1951) was an amazing musical blockbuster and I am realising this fact only just now. An interesting fact about this musical blockbuster is that the songs of this movie were sung by not one or two established singers, but by several singers. The variety that they brought to the songs of this movie was just wonderful.
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Jiska joota usi ka sar
Posted on: July 3, 2009
Here is a fun song which I recall hearing a few times in distant past, but without having any indepth knowledge about the song.
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Dekho mausam kya bahaar aayi
Posted on: May 3, 2009
Perceptions about singers, lyricists and music directors can often be so misleading. For example, if Mukesh and Lata sing a duet written by Majrooh and composed by Chitragupta, then what does one expect ? A mythological song ? Or perhaps a sad song ? Or a song based on rural characters ?
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Here is another song that I never heard before. Not only is this song “new” for me, even the singer is “new” for me.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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