Posts Tagged ‘Anand Bakshi’
Late 1960s was when Bollywood movie music was at its zenith. The quality and quantity of great songs those days was just mind boggling. Many great songs created those days found themselves to be marginalised and elbowed out in this stiff competition. No one has really chronicled all the great songs of those years, but I am sure that the number of such songs must be in several hundreds, if not in thousands.
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In this blog, I post songs that I categorise into different categories. Among them, there is one artificial category of songs (not yet formalised). These are songs that were very popular in its days during my formative years. I enjoyed these songs a lot without having any clues about their details. After that these songs would be forgotten with time. After a passage of three decades or more, I would stumble upon them one again. And this time, I would get to know these songs better. As far as I and several followers of this blog in my age group are concerned, these songs were immortal songs. As least they will remain so in our psyche.
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“Bairaag” (1976) is one of the last movies where Dilip Kumar is seen as a hero. And as happened with heroes well past the conventionally accepted age of playing Bollywood heroes, he is paired up with Leena Chandawarkar here, who was nearly half the age of Dilip Saab at that time.
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Ye shama to jali roshni ke liye
Posted on: May 14, 2010
“Aaya Saawan Jhoom Ke” (1969) is one movie that is largely remembered for its songs more than for anything else. At least that is true for me. The fact that I have never watched the movie certainly helps. From the picturisation of songs in this movie, I get the impression that Dharmendra does most of his singing in gatherings where he sings songs addressed to Asha Parekh.
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Ham tum gum sum raat milan ki
Posted on: May 10, 2010
This is one of those songs that I liked a lot in my younger days without having any inkling about the details of the song, and after some time, such songs would be forgotten by one and all for all time to come.
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I recall listening to this song in my younger days. But as was the case with me for most songs, the only thing I knew about this song was what I heard, and no more. In other words, my knowledge of this song was confined to the fact that the song was sung by Rafi. Yes, I could identify Rafi’s voice even then. But I was not aware that songs had lyricists and music directors too. I used to think that the singer did everything !
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Koyi nazraanaa leke aayaa hoon
Posted on: April 8, 2010
I have posted several songs from the movie “Aan Milo Sanja” (1970). But my job is not complete until I post all the songs from musical blockbuster movies like this one.
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Palat meri jaan tere qurbaan
Posted on: April 5, 2010
I have posted a few well known songs from “Aan Milo Sajna”(1970). There are some “lesser known ” songs in this movie. By “lesser known”, what I mean is that I was not aware about these songs being part of “Aan Milo Sajna” when everyone else did.
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Main na kisi ka aitbaar karoongi
Posted on: March 17, 2010
“Boxer” (1965) was a movie featuring Dara Singh and Mumtaz. This movie had music by Laxmikant Pyarelal who were then newcomers as music directors.
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ilu, ilu
Posted on: March 14, 2010
When new actors are to be introduced in lead roles in Bollywood movies, they are normally introduced in love stories. In most such cases, the hero tends to be the producer’s son and the heroine is a newcomer, or vice versa.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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