Posts Tagged ‘Asha Bhonsle’
Tumhe ham yaad karte hain
Posted on: October 21, 2010
“Rukhsaana” (1955) is movie with Sajjad Hussain’s music and a few songs of this movie are available on internet. This movie had Kishore Kumar,Meena Kumari, Kumkum, Randhir, Sundar etc in it.
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Mere mehboob mein kyaa nahin
Posted on: October 16, 2010
Two female singers dancing in tandem was a staple diet of B grade historical/ mythological movies of 1960s. But here we find the same thing happening in a Muslim social movie. The movie is “Mere Mehboob” (1963) and here Sadhana and Ameeta are found dancing and singing joyously. They sing in the voices of Lata and Asha Bhonsle respectively.
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Dil ki kahaani rang laayi hai
Posted on: October 16, 2010
“Chaudhvin Ka Chaand” (1960) was a movie that could be described as a quintessential Muslim social movie. In this movie, Guru Dutt and Waheeda Rehman played lead roles.
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Katra katra mehki hai
Posted on: October 10, 2010
Today 10th october is Rekha’s birthday and on this occasion I have been posting songs picturised on Rekha. This is the sixth such song that I am discussing here.
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Umrao Jaan was a legendary courtesan of Lucknow, though few people outside Lucknow may be much aware of her. But all that changed in 1980 when the movie “Umrao Jaan” was released. And now, whenever one mentions Umra Jaan, one is reminded of Rekha. Just like many people think that Emperor Akbar looked like Prithviraj Kapoor, many people now think that Umrao Jaan looked like Rekha.
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Saare niyam tod do
Posted on: October 10, 2010
In 1970s, we had a genre of movies that were supposed to be fun movies, which were mainly directed by Bengali directors like Hrishikesh Mukherji, Basu Chatterji etc. These movies followed their own formula of comedy.
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Dekho maane nahin roothi haseenaa
Posted on: October 9, 2010
Sometime back, I had tried to find out the names of playback singers who have sung for Dev Anand in Hindi movies. And I found that there have been several such singers and not just the usual names.
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Saawan aaye yaa naa aaye
Posted on: October 8, 2010
“Dil Diyaa Dard Liyaa” (1966) was a movie that was just before my time. I had got an opportunity to watch this movie for free a few years later but I passed over that opportunity because the movie,the actors as well as the storyline of this movie were not quite the cup of tea of kids my age. “what is this ? These movies cannot think of anything other than pyaar. There are more to life than pyaar, such as maar dhaad (fights) etc.”- The leader among us pre-teens opined and the rest of us readily agreed and walked off after some time.
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Ye chaar din bahaar ke
Posted on: October 6, 2010
Few people have heard of this movie called “Rukhsaanaa” (1955). It is interesting to note that this movie had actors like Kishore Kumar, Meena Kumari, Shammi Kapoor and Kumkum in it.
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