Posts Tagged ‘Asha Bhonsle’
O mere sona re sona re sona re
Posted on: January 15, 2009
“Teesri Manzil” was the movie with which R D Burman announced his arrival as a music director. And what songs this movie had !
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Aaja aaja main hoon pyaar tera
Posted on: January 14, 2009
When R D Burman was given the job of music direction in a Shammi Kapoor movie called “Teesri Manzil”, many eye brows were raised, including Shammi Kapoor’s, but once the songs were recorded and picturised, there was no doubt in anyone’s mind that a great star was born among music directors, one who would rewrite music direction in Bollywood movies for the next decade or so.
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Shammi Kapoor helped launch the careers of many heroines, because he was one hero who was not averse to acting opposite raw youngsters. In fact, actresses like Saira Bano and Sharmila Tagore actually made their debuts opposite Shammi Kapoor and that helped their career take off.
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Gori chalo na hans ki chaal
Posted on: January 5, 2009
Here is one song that I have listened to in the past , but not with much attention. This time, I gave it my proper attention, and discovered what a nice song it was.
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Ham bhi agar bachche hote
Posted on: January 4, 2009
Here is a song that is a perenniel favourite of kids and grown ups both. The song is very well known but few people can tell which movie this song was from. Even I keep forgetting, but it is good that my farmaish senders make my task easier by mentioning the name of the movie with their farmaishes.
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Jodi hamaari jamega kaise jaani
Posted on: January 3, 2009
This song from “Aulaad” is a long standing farmaish of Raja, but all these days I had been hampered from posting it because its video is not available. After searching for its video and drawing a blank, I took its audio clip and I decided to present this song with the picture of Chitragupta, the music director of this movie and indeed of this song.
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I have mentioned it earlier that “Mera Saaya” was full of outstanding Lata-Madan Mohan songs that have gone on to become immortal evergreen songs. But pray which of “Mera Saaya” songs became the most popular those days? It was none of these Lata songs, or even the Rafi one.
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Here is a “choodi” song from a movie called “Jaani Dushman”, which is picturised on Jeetendra, Neetu Singh and Sarika.
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Chain se humko kabhi
Posted on: December 28, 2008
O P Nayyar and Asha Bhonsle had forged a long professional relation for 15 years which had turned personal as well. The two had continued an affair that lasted just as long. Towards the early years of 1970s, when O P Nayyar was no longer the top music director of Bollywood and his music was losing its hold over the public, his personal relationship with Asha Bhonsle was on the rocks as well. The two finally split in 1972. Prior to that, they had recorded this song “Chain se humko kabhi aapne jeene na diyaa”. From the voice, lyrics and the music, it is obvious that Asha Bhonsle, the lyricist S H Bihari ( a close confidant of O P Nayyar) and O P Nayyar had given this song their best.
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Tu chhupi hai kahaan
Posted on: December 25, 2008
“Navrang”, a musical blockbuster from 1958 had some awesome songs, one of which “aadha hai chandrama raath aadhi” has already appeared in this blog. Here is another fabulous song from “Navrang” sung by Manna Dey and Asha Bhonsle. Bharat Vyas was an expert lyricist, and C Ramchandra was the music director of this movie. Together they have created this memorable song.
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