Posts Tagged ‘Bharat Vyas’
O nirdayi preetam
Posted on: November 23, 2009
It is often said that one needs to use heavy duty Urdu words to come up with romantic ( as well as other kinds of) songs, and people agree. But the facts are, most of the lyricists in the formative years of Bollywood movie songs were more familiar with Urdu and they created such songs using words they were more comfortable with. Listeners who were not familiar with Urdu were often clueless about many words in these songs. Many listeners, such as yours truly, did not know what words like “ulfat”, fitrat” etc meant. People would guess about the meanings of these words in the context of the topic. Sometimes their guess would turn out to be correct, and sometimes not.
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Ud jaa bhanwar maaya kamal kaa
Posted on: November 2, 2009
By 1950s, Bollywood movie songs had came of age. Some of the most memorable songs of all time were created in this decade.
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I have listened to this song in the past, but that was when I was not paying attention and when I was unaware about the details of this song.
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Ae baandi tum begam bano
Posted on: October 28, 2009
I have mentioned earlier that the original “Parineeta”, viz “Parineeta”(1953) had some lovely songs in it, though they have been forgotten by now.
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“Bedard Zamaana kyaa jaane”(1959) is one of the first movies in which Kalyanji gave music solo. Subsequently he was joined by his younger brother Anandji to form the well known music director duo of Kalyanji Anandji.
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Many people may only be aware of the new “Parineeta”, but in reality, the original and real “Parineeta” is the movie that was based on Sharat Chandra Chattopadhyay’s story and it was picturised in 1953. It was made in Bangla, Hindi, and may be in other languages too.
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“Kan Kan Mein Bhagwaan” (1963) was a mythological movie, and as such movies went, it was a B grade movie. Few people remember this movie or its songs, but I find that the songs of this movie were as good as the music of any A grade movie.
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In the beginning of his career, Kalyanji had initially given music alone, before forming a partnership with his younger sibling, viz Anandji. “Bedard Zamaana Kyaa Jaane” (1959) is one such movie where Kalyanji gave mosic solo under the name Kalyanji Veerji Shah.
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Raat suhaani jhoome jawaani
Posted on: October 24, 2009
I have repeatedly stressed the fact that there was nothing B grade about the music of these so called B and C grade movies. But as far as the public were concerned, the music of these movies would fail to catch up, mainly because of lack of exposure. Since most people would not watch these movies, they would not be aware of these songs, and the records of these songs would not be made and sold as a result of non popularity of these songs. So it was a catch 22 situation for the music of B grade movies.
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Here is a truly “bhoola bisra” geet even by the standards of this blog.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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