Posts Tagged ‘Asha Bhonsle’
Sach huye sapne tere
Posted on: March 16, 2009
“Kaala Bazaar” (1960) was a movie featuring Dev Anand and Waheeda Rahman. This movie had some nice songs.
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Jis din se maine tumko dekha hai
Posted on: March 13, 2009
This is one song that I just loved listening to as a kid. It is a wonderful song sung by Rafi.
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Arre ja re hat natkhat
Posted on: March 10, 2009
As Holi songs go, this is the second oldest of all well known Bollywood Holi songs. This song from “Navrang” is exactly 50 years old by now.
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“Shatranj” (1969) was a movie that flopped at the box office, even though it has Jubilee Kumar (Rajendra Kumar) in the lead role alongwith Waheeda Rahman.
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Ik pardesi mera dil le gaya
Posted on: March 10, 2009
“Naagin” song has the most well known “been” tune in Bollywood music, but this “been” music in this song from “Phaagun” (1958) is just as wonderful.
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Ek chameli ke mandve tale
Posted on: March 6, 2009
One is used to seeing Helen in a cabaret number dressed in “western” clothes. Also her role would typically be confined to that one song.
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I have listened to this song lots of times. But I was not aware till now which movie this song is from, and who figured in the picturisation.
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When one listens to this song, and finds out that Shankar Jaikishan are the music directors and Hasrat Jaipuri the lyricist, then one can safely assume that this Rafi song is picturised on Shammi. And indeed, I have thought so about this song for more than four decades. It indeed seems to fulfil all the ingredients that one had in a Shammi Kapoor movie.
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Tora man darpan kahlaaye
Posted on: February 27, 2009
When I watched “Kaajal” (1965) some 15 years later in a movie hall, I was all prepared to get bored to death when I realised that this movie had Raj KUmar and Meena Kumari in the lead roles, and the movie. But then a song appeared, then another, then another…. ad infinitum.
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