Posts Tagged ‘Anjaan’
The movie as well as this song from the movie lies forgotten today, but this song from “Banarasi Babu” (1973) was quite popular those days.
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Bollywood movies are supposed to be Hindi movies and their censor certificate mentions them as such. If one looks at the censor certificates of movies, one finds that a few movie are certified not as Hindi but as Urdu, For instance Nassir Hussain blockbuster “ham Kisi se ka nahin” is described as an Urdu movie by its censor certificate.
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Many of the songs in this blog are “serious” songs- songs that are timeless classics, as I like to call them.
But one need not listen to timeless classics all the time. There are occasions when one would like to let his/her hair down and listen to light hearted songs that brings a smile to one’s face.
Here is just that kind of song.
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Tu auron ki kyon ho gayi
Posted on: May 24, 2009
Joy Mukherji, Debu Mukherji and Somu Mukherji were brothers and they were from a well connected family. Their father was Shashdhar Mukherji, a big name in Bollywood movie making. Their uncle (chacha) was Subodh Mukherji, the well known movie producer. From their mother’s side, they were connected to Ashok Kumar, Kishore Kumar and Anup Kumar, who were their mamas.
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Wow! This song is from “Putlibai” (1972) ! I have listened to this song in the past and loved it, but I became aware about any details of this song only just now.
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Mat poochh mera hai kaun watan
Posted on: May 19, 2009
when a movie by the name “Mr India” is mentioned, everyone thinks of the movie of 1987 where Anil Kapoor and Sridevi played the lead roles.
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Hiya jarat rahat din rain
Posted on: April 18, 2009
In most Bollywood movies, characters speak and sing in mainstream Hindi/ Urdu, but there are movies where they speak a bit differently. For instance, all villagers in Bollywood movies speak in a dialect that is supposedly Bhojpuri even if those villagers live in Sikkim !
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Sach kahta hoon bahut haseen ho
Posted on: March 28, 2009
“Jaali Note” (1960), by now a forgotten movie had Dev Anand and Madhubala in lead roles. Moreover, it had music by O P Nayyar.
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By 1966, O P Nayyar was not the number one music director that he was one decade ago.His crown had slipped decisively by then, But O P Nayyar could still show his sparks of brillinace, given a chance.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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