Posts Tagged ‘Asad Bhopali’
I have already discussed as amany as eight songs from “Afsaanaa” (1951) but it turns out that I am not yet done with the songs of this movie.
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Kahaan hai tu mere sapnon ke raaja
Posted on: May 27, 2011
“Afsaanaa” (1951) is a movie that had Ashok Kumar and Veena in lead roles.It also had Pran,Kuldeep Kaur,Jeewan, Cuckoo etc in it. This movie was a musical blockbuster and I have discussed as many as seven songs from this movie in the past.
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Gori tere chalne pe mera dil qurbaan
Posted on: May 14, 2011
In late 1970s, I had watched a movie called “Dada”. In that movie, Amjad Khan, then typedcast as Gabbar Singh following his role in “Sholay” (1975) played a baddie who turns over a new leaf thanks to a young blind girl (whose father he has murdered). this movie moved the audience a lot. The movie went on to become a reasonable hit. Vinod Mehra and Bindiya Goswami were the hero and heroine of this movie, but Amjad Khan was the real star of the movie.
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This article is written by Raja, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie songs and a regular contributor of articles to this blog.
Up until about a year ago, I knew just one song of the movie “Ustadon Ke Ustad” (1963). This was the famous Rafi saab song “sau baar janam lenge”.
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Raat chup hai chaandni madhosh hai
Posted on: April 2, 2011
This article is written by Raja, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie songs and a regular contributor of articles to this blog.
Recently, I had written about the song “haseenon se to bas saaheb” from the movie “Ustaadon Ke Ustaad” (1963).
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Haseenon se to bas saahab
Posted on: March 17, 2011
This article is written by Raja, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor of write ups to this blog.
One of the best things about old Hindi songs is that not only are they, by and large, melodious but they come in all varieties, to suit every mood. So depending on your mood, you can always pick up an appropriate genre of songs and you will enjoy a treasure-house of songs in that category.
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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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