Posts Tagged ‘Anand Bakshi’
Kishore Kumar is mainly known for singing happy, bubbly kinds of songs but he was an allrounder.
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Ye laal rang kab mujhe chhodegaa
Posted on: January 30, 2009
This song is indeed the reason why we remember this movie called “Prem Nagar” to this date. The movie, which turned out to be a box office disaster despite boasting of the biggest names of the industry viz Rajesh Khanna and Hema Malini, had a story line that failed to appeal to the movie goers.
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For most people living outside Bombay, Bombay means movie actors. When I was first going to Bombay as a 11 year old kid, my school mates were convinced that I was going to meet Hema Malini there.
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“Prem Nagar” (1974) was a movie where the reigning male superstar and the biggest female star were brought together in the same movie for the first time. Perhaps the hype was too much, or may be the contents were not good enough. Whatever the reasons, this movie failed at the box office despite the presence of Rajesh Khanna and Hema Malini.
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Zikr Hota Hai jab qayaamat ka
Posted on: January 29, 2009
The golden era of Bollywood music saw some big name music directors enriching the music of these movies. There were many such names.
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This Mukesh song is from a 1965 movie called ‘Himalay ki God mein” . This song is written by Anand Bakshi and the music was composed by Kalyanji Anandji.
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I know an acquaintance who would casually go to a “paan” shop, buy “paan” and talk to the “paanwaala” in an UP Bhaiyya style. If he saw a Baraat coming up with the Baraatis dancing, he would nonchalantly join the Baraat and dance a few jigs himself.
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Chaand aahen bharega
Posted on: January 27, 2009
Mukesh is reputed to be a singer par excellence as far as sad songs were concerned. But I am finding that Mukesh was a singer par excellence for romantic songs as well. The kinds of songs where he sings for the lady sound so sincere and sensuous that these songs have no option but to straighaway walk into the hall of fame of immortal songs.
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Sang basanti ang basanti
Posted on: January 22, 2009
“Raja aur rank” (1968 ) is a movie that the present generation of movie watchers are not much familiar with, and that is for good reasons too. The movie was eminently forgettable with a flimsy story line. The only well known actor in this movie was Sanjeev Kumar, and he too was a newcomer to Bollywood.
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This song is a festival song, a “holi” song to be precise. Everyone is seen with some gulaal applied on their faces, and Rajesh Khanna is seated with Asrani. Rekha, with gulaal applied on her cheeks as well, comes with a lota full of bhang and pours Asrani some of it. Rajesh Khanna also proffers his glass forward. Rekha, not interested in pouring him the intoxicant, thrusts the lota on Rajesh Khanna’s hands and departs on a huff, only to be stopped on her tracks when a song begins.
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