Posts Tagged ‘Anand Bakshi’
Ruby o Ruby jaane mehboobi
Posted on: August 14, 2010
This writeup was originally by me. Now Sudhir’s writeup and translation of this song have also been added
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Atul’ write up
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When I was growing up as a pre teen kid in late 1960s and early 1970s, I heard many songs that left indelible imprints on my psyche. There are a few such songs which I never heard again for several decades. Thanks to this blog, which makes me look for songs and which familiarises me with songs sent as farmaishes by my readers, I have been rediscovering many of these forgotten gems.
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“Mr X in Bombay” (1964) is a treasure of wonderful songs. I have already posted 5 songs from it.
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Ruk jaa roktaa hai ye deewaanaa
Posted on: August 5, 2010
“Mr X in Bombay” (1964) was the first movie where Laxmikant Pyarelal and Kishore Kumar worked together for the first time, and the result was some outstanding music. The fact that Kishore Kumar acted in the movie certainly helped.
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Raat suhaani jaag rahi hai
Posted on: August 1, 2010
“Jigri Dost” (1969) is a movie chokefull of awesome songs.With time, the movie as well as its songs have gone into oblivion but listening to these songs again is always a good and pleasant experience.
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Main shaayar badnaam
Posted on: July 31, 2010
While posting songs from the golden era of Bollywood movies, I have tended to concentrate more on the songs of 1950s and 1960s, even though I grew up with songs of 1970s. Just like we these days lament about the quality of Bollywood movie songs today and cite old Bollywood movie songs as the epitome of quality, the same lament was heard even in 1970s. Even I was under the impression that the quality of music in 1970s was not what it was in the earlier years. Now of course I can have a hearty laugh at my own expense with the benefit of hindsight.
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This is a song that I was not aware of. I became aware of this song thanks to a farmaish by Raja.
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This post is written by Raja, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie songs and a regular visitor of this blog
There is rarely an excuse required in Hindi movies for a song. Birthday or wedding celebration parties (with the ubiquitous piano), the “tribal” dance scenes, club dances, hero-heroine scenes out in beautiful natural surroundings, the pining scenes and the mujra scenes – these are all well-established occasions waiting for a song to happen.
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I have mentioned in the past that the Bollywood movies of the past used to have their get togethers not in hotels, but in their palatial houses that every hero/ heroine used to possess. Their palatial house used to have a big hall for the purpose of these get together. And in these occasions, the hero/ heroine was required to sing a song. A grand piano was kept in the hall near the big staircase (that led to the upper floor)for the purpose of this song. The hero/ heroine, after initial nakhra, would get seated on the piano and then sing a song accompanied by music.The music incidentally would bear little resemblence to the music that normally comes out of a grand piano.
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Here is a song from “Aaya Saawan Jhoom Ke” (1969). It is prima facie a boat song, but on second thoughts it is an inspirational song as well.
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Badraa chaaye..aaya saawan jhoom ke
Posted on: July 15, 2010
In western cultures, only one day in the spring season , called Valentine’s day is dedicated for love. In Indian culture , on the other hand, an entire season, viz the rainy season is the season of love. It did not begin with the advent of Bollywood movies. Even in ancient Sanskrit novels, for instance in Kalidas’ “meghdoot”, we find the rainy season described as the season when there is love in the air.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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