Posts Tagged ‘Anand Bakshi’
Hum bewafa hargiz na the
Posted on: October 21, 2008
The biggest bollywood hit of all time was “Sholay” that was released in 1975. This movie played on the same movie hall of Bombay for many years. When this movie was finally withdrawn, it was replaced by another movie, which was being so hyped those days that everyone felt it was going to be the biggest movie in Bollywood history, bigger than even “Sholay”. But when “Sholay” was finally replaced by thise movie whose title sounded similar, viz “Shalimar”, this movie “Shalimar” turned out to be the biggest damp squib in the history of Bollywood.
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“Kati Patang” was a movie based on a Gulshan Nanda novel of the same name. Gulshan Nanda incidentally was a very popular Hindi novelist. “Jheel ke us paar” was another of his novels that was made into another movie.
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Sun Champa sun Taara
Posted on: October 12, 2008
“Apna Desh” was a movie that appealed to majority of movie goers. It had almost every thing that the movie going janta wanted. In those days, movie going public were undergoing a change of taste. Movies where hero sang sad songs and got bashed by the villains were proving unpopular. People wanted the heroes of 1970s to be more assertive and active than just singing sad songs.
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Mera naam hai chameli
Posted on: October 6, 2008
This song is a fun timepass song or tapori song, whichever classification suits you. The movie itself was a lighthearted movie. In this song, Sanjeev Kumar is kept in a prison and Kumkun launches a drive to free him. The drive consists of the tried and tested Bollywood formula viz singing a suductive song and the prison guards prove a pushover in the true Bollywood tradition. A song sung by Kumkum is all that it takes for the guards to lower their guards and Kumkum, with her associates manages to free Sanjeev Kumar.
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Gussa itna haseen hai to
Posted on: October 5, 2008
Rajesh Khanna, the superstar of late 1960s and early 1970s had fans swooning over his mannerisms. Whatever he touched turned to gold those days.
Maryada was a movie where he acted opposite the ageing heroine Mala Sinha. This movie, though largely forgotten now, had some awesome songs. One Mukesh song from this movie, viz “jubaan pe dard bhari daastaan chali aayi” has already appeared in this blog.
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O manchali kahaan chali
Posted on: October 4, 2008
Listening to Binaca geetmala on wednesday nights is one of my most memorable moments of 1970s. If I am asked to name one song from Binaca geetmala that stands out in memory, then this particular song has to be that. This song appeared to be playing every time I listened to Binaca geetmala weekly programmes. If one looks dispassionately, neither this song, nor any other song from this movie figured in Binaca geetmala finals, but at that time, this movie and other songs from this movie appeared to be all over Binaca geetmala.
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Aaj unse pahli mulaaqaat hogi
Posted on: September 30, 2008
Forget the talk of modernisation and all, when it comes to selecting life partners, Indians are ultra conservatives. In olden days, parents would decide whom their kids would marry and the kids, often underage would see their spouses for the first time at the time of the wedding, and sometimes, even later.
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Here is a very catchy song from a by now forgotten movie called “Banphool”. Kishore Kumar sang this song with gusto. Lyrics were written by Anand Bakshi and the music was a typically racy Laxmikant Pyarelal tune.
How do I classify this song ? There are a few songs in this blog that I call “car songs” because they were sung while riding a car. Here the hero Jeetendra sings this song riding an elephant. 😉
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This is one of the iconic songs of the days when I was growing up as a young impressionable kid. This song was everywhere in 1970, blaring out from loudspeakers as well as radios.
As with most popular songs of those days, this song had appealed to all just on the merit of the audio. People like me had no idea which movie this song was from and how it was picturised. Laxmikant Pyarelal’s music and Anand Bakshi’s lyrics, along with Lata’s voice were all we needed to enjoy this song.
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Maine dekha toone dekha
Posted on: September 24, 2008
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Rajesh Khanna on screen and Kishore Kumar giving playback on the composition of Laxmikant Pyarelal- it was a recipe for some memorable bollywood movie songs. In addition, this recipe also has Mumtaz singing in the voice of Lata.
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