Posts Tagged ‘Anand Bakshi’
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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“Do Raaste” was full of great songs of different moods. Most of the songs were happy songs, full of song and dance.
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Kuchh to log kahenge
Posted on: January 20, 2009
Kishore Kumar, regarded as a singer of happy songs, has sung some fantastic sad/ serious songs in his career too. “Amar Prem” in fact had not one, but quite a few serious songs. Anand Bakshi was the lyricist and R D Burman was the music director of this movie.
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Rimjhim ke geet saawan gaaye
Posted on: January 20, 2009
I have often mentioned that Rainy season is the valentine season in Bollywood movies. Not only does it offer the actors a reason to get wet in the rain, it also leads to more fruitful situations.
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Mera naam Yaao mere paas aao
Posted on: January 17, 2009
This is a very very rare song. So rare in fact that its video, or for that matter even its audio is extremely difficult to locate. I have been looking for it for several months, and I have finally been able to locate its audio.
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“Haathi mere Saathi” (1971) was a movie that was meant specifically for kids. And I happened to be a kid those days. Needless to say, I loved this movie.
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Baaghon mein bahaar aayi
Posted on: January 16, 2009
Anand Bakshi is the most prolific lyricist in Bollywood history. Many dozens of singers must have sung songs penned by him.
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O phirkiwali tu kal phir aana
Posted on: January 15, 2009
This song was quite a timepass song during its time and it was very popular with kids like me.
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Till 1960s,when India was in terrible shape on almost all fronts,and Indians depended on foodgrain imports even to feed themselves, it was the Prime minister Lal Bahadur Shastri who decided that India needed to be self sufficient in growing food stuffs. He also gave a slogan “Jai Jawan Jai Kissan”.
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