Posts Tagged ‘Asad Bhopali’
Suno jaanaa suno jaanaa
Posted on: March 15, 2011
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Think of Sheikh Mukhtar, the hero of so many ‘Dada’ and ‘Ustad’ movies, the proverbial angry young man of the 50s and 60s ‘B’ screen Hindi movies long before Amitabh got that tag in the 70s and 80s. Now think of the same he-man in a skirt dress and bob cut hair? And dancing the twist, and pat-a-cake, no less?
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Dil hi to hai tadap gayaa
Posted on: November 13, 2010
Most of the songs discussed in these pages are “normal” songs in the sense that these songs were released normally, viz they were included in the movie and were released on records as well.
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There are a few songs which become popular right from the time they are released and go on to become timeless classics. But most songs remain popular only for some time and after that they are forgotten, perhaps for all time to come.
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Ye rang bhare baadal
Posted on: September 25, 2010
I am always on the look out of rail songs. Once I had collected a list of about 25 rail songs from Hindi movies and I thought that I had covered just about all the songs that were there on that genre.
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Dil aawaaraa kare nazaaraa
Posted on: September 24, 2010
What happens when a producer wants to remake a James Bond kind of movie in Hindi but his finances only allow him the luxury of making a C grade movie ? He comes up with a movie called “Ushaad 420” (1969).
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“Free Love” (1974) was not a sleazy movie, despite its title. It was a C grade movie though and it had Kiran Kumar and Yogita Bali in lead roles. The movie sank without trace. I for one never knew in 1974 that a movie of this name was doing the rounds in movie halls. In my town this movie was never released.
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I recall listening to this song quite a lot and liking it too. I knew that the song was sung by Mahendra Kapoor, but that is all I knew about this song. And as this song ran its course, I forgot all about this song.
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Bade bewafaa hain ye husn waale
Posted on: August 23, 2010
Here is an archtypical piano song from an archtypically early 1970s movie called “Roop Tera Mastana” which had Jeetendra, Mumtaz, Pran and Aruna Irani in lead roles.
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Here is a song from “Apna Banaa Ke Dekho” (1962). This song is sung by Rafi. I do not have the video of this song available, but I am awre that this movie had Manoj Kumar and Asha Parekh in lead roles, so one can safely assume that this song is picturised on Manoj Kumar.
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Dil milaa ke milo paas aake milo
Posted on: July 22, 2010
In this blog, I have written about quite a few lesser known singers, lyricists and music directors and posted their songs. I in fact take pride in the fact that this blog is perhaps the only place where one can get the most information about their songs.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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