Posts Tagged ‘Asha Bhonsle’
Ham tere bina jee na sakenge sanam
Posted on: May 16, 2009
Ganesh, the younger brother of Pyarelal ( of Laxmikant Pyarelal fame) had assisted his brother in their earlier movies, including “Parasmani”. In fact, it is said that Ganesh and Shashikant ( brother of Laxmikant) had played big roles behind the success of their brothers in that movie.
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Chaandi ka badan sone ki nazar
Posted on: May 16, 2009
I have posted over a thousand songs in this blog so far. Most songs are 3 to 4 minutes long and their lyrics are about 200 words long. But this qawwali is nearly ten minutes long and its lyrics runs into 800 words !
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There were quite a few well known songs in “Bambai ka Babu” (1960) and I have posted several songs from this movie already.
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In 1970s, when Amitabh Bachchan ruled the roost, I found it perplexing that Amitabh Bachchan movies with silly plots did good business whereas movies which were truly good in my judgement failed at the box office. To my mind, movies like “The Great Gambler”, and “Deshpremi” weere better movies than say “Muqaddar ka Sikandar” and “Suhaag”, but that is not what the public thought at that time.
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Parda uthe salaam ho jaaye
Posted on: May 9, 2009
Manna Dey was one singer, who despite his ability, was typecast as a singer for bit actors. There were very few movies where he got to sing for the hero. But whenever he got such a chance, he came up with some superb songs.
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A few days ago, I posted a song from music director Ravi’s last movie, where he had not only composed the music, but wrote the lyrics and sang the song too. As far as singing songs is concerned, Ravi began singing from his very first movie as an independent music director.
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Jaane kaisaa hai mera deewaana
Posted on: May 8, 2009
I think I should have a new tag for those songs that were very popular in my younger days but I had no clue about the details of these songs. I would love to listen to these songs, only to forget all about them with passage of time. I have been re discovering those songs again now a days. There are several such songs, as I keep mentioning in my posts.
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Raat akeli hai bujh gaye diye
Posted on: May 7, 2009
“Jewel Thief”, like most Dev Anand movies with S D Burman’s music, had some very nice songs in it. I have already posted a few songs from this movie.
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Jaadugar qaatil haazir hai mera dil
Posted on: May 6, 2009
In Bollywood movies, whatver be the profession of the hero, he is mostly seen singing rather than engaging in his profession.
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Saanjh dhali dil ki lagi
Posted on: May 3, 2009
Most leading heroes had their standard playback singers. Thus Raj Kapoor had Mukesh, Shammi Kapoor and Rajendra Kumar had Rafi, Vishwajeet had Hemant Kumar, Sunil Dutt had Mahendra Kapoor ( in B R Chopra movies) etc.
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