Posts Tagged ‘Anjaan’
8th september is Asha Bhonsle’s birthday. On this occasion, I have discussed a couple of rare and special songs sung by Asha Bhonsle. Here is another fantastic song sung by her.
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Sanwaar de jo pyaar se
Posted on: August 14, 2011
I just realised that the full name of this movie is “Adventures of Robinhood and bandits” ! Phew ! That must make it the longest title ever in Hindi movies.
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Kabhi hoti nahin hai jiski haar
Posted on: August 4, 2011
- In: Asha Bhonsle solo | Asha Bhonsle songs | Feelings of heart | Inspirational song | Kishore Kumar solo | Kishore Kumar songs | Lyrics by Prakashchandra | Lyrics contributed by readers | Multiple version song | Rare song | Songs of 1980s (1981 to 1990) | Songs of 1981 | Yearwise breakup of songs
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Normally it is believed that old songs are obscure songs and new songs are better known songs. But that is not always the case. I find that several recent songs (anything created in 1970s and later are recent by the standards of this blog. 😀 ) have been forgotten in double quick time.
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Mere do nainaa matwaare
Posted on: June 29, 2011
When one listens to the songs of the golden era, one realises that the overall quality of the songs was quite high. Not just the big name music directors, even small time music directors were creating quality stuff. The only difference between big names and small names was marketability, otherwise qualitywise, even music directors confined to B and C grade movies were just as good as the A grade music directors.
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Bahaaron thhaam lo ab dil
Posted on: May 12, 2011
Hindi movie scenario was so rich during the golden era that great music composers almost grew on trees. Some of them went on to become legends, but there were many great composers that failed to land sufficient number of assignments that their talents merited.
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Johny Walker was perhaps the first non Hero who began to have songs picturised on him on a regular basis. Many of these songs became very popular.
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Rajesh Khanna, who was born on 29th December 1942, made his mark as a superstar in Hindi movies sometime in the second half of 1969, when “Aradhana” (1969) was released. This movie gave him an identity and a persona which became his trademark.
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Aa jaao aa bhi jaao
Posted on: December 29, 2010
29th december is the birthday of Rajesh Khanna, who was the most influential actor of the era when I was growing up in late 1960s-early 1970s. On this occasion, I will discuss a few songs picturised on Rajesh Khanna that have not yet been discussed here.
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Yaar binaa chain kahaan re
Posted on: September 24, 2010
By mid 1980s, the golden era of Hindi movie songs was virtually over. By this time,Disco songs, which were quite superficial in their lyrics and lacked any depth had begun to rule the roost.
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- In: "phone" song | "tasweer" song | Amitabh Bachchan songs | Amitabh Bachchan songs by Kishore Kumar | expression of love | Feelings of heart | Kishore Kumar solo | Kishore Kumar songs | Multiple version song | Sentimental song | Songs of 1980s (1981 to 1990) | Songs of 1983 | Yearwise breakup of songs
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Here is a song from “Mahaan” (1983). This is a wonderful sentimental song which appears in the movie twice and it is sung by different singers on both the occasions.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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