Posts Tagged ‘Asha Parekh’
All these days I was under the impression that I had discussed this song long back, but I was woken up from my complacency by a farmaish from this song. I have discussed as many as six songs from this movie, and it is a great oversight on my part that I forgot to discuss this song till now.
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Mujhe tum mil gaye hamdam
Posted on: November 4, 2010
“Love in Tokyo”(1966) is the most Shammi Kapoorish of all movies not involving the great man himself. “Love in Tokyo” (1966) has Joy Mukherji instead and he does a great job here as a Shammi Kapoor clone.
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Jaayiye aap kahaan jaayenge
Posted on: November 3, 2010
Here is a typically O P Nayyarish romantic song from 1960s. This song is from “Mere Sanam” (1965) and listening to this song, one may guess that the song is from a Shammi Kapoorish movie. And one is too much off the mark in this guesswork. This movie contains Vishwajeet (poor man’s Shammi Kapoor) as well as Asha Parekh.
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Songs play a very important part in the success of Hindi movies. If one leaves out songs, then on many occasions, not much of interest is left in the movie
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Do nain miley do phool khiley
Posted on: September 8, 2010
After watching so many “teasing” songs, I find non- teasing songs such a sight for sore eyes. These are songs where the boy is treating the girl in a dignified manner and the girl is not minding his advances. Here is one such delighfully picturised romantic song from “Ghoonghat” (1960).
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This post is written by Raja, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor of posts to this blog
The first Rajesh Khanna movie I remember watching in my life is Kati Patang. By then his star was on the rise and this movie, blockbuster that it turned out to be, only further confirmed this state of affairs.
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Naseeb mein jiske jo likhaa thaa
Posted on: August 21, 2010
I may have posted over 2800 + songs in this blog, but that is only a small part of all the great Hindi songs that have ben created over the decades. Many well known songs from many well (or even well known) movies are yet to be posted.
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One reason why the songs of the golden era live in our memory is the lyrics which were soul of these songs. Secondly, the singers sand these songs with involvement and passion, and thirdly, the music of these songs created just the right ambience for the mood of the song.
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Yaar chulbulaa hai
Posted on: August 8, 2010
I have posted several songs from “Dil Deke Dekho” (1959) and still it appears to me that this movie has an endless supply of wonderful songs in it.
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Bade hain dil ke kaale
Posted on: July 29, 2010
In Bollywood movies of 1950s and 1960s, we had “teasing” songs where the hero would tease the heroine, often too nastily in my view and get away with it, unlike how it is in real life in India, where “eve-teasing” is a serious offence.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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