Posts Tagged ‘Bharat Vyas’
I had mentioned it earlier that “Chaand” (1959) is one forgotten movie that had some lovely songs in it. I have posted two songs from this movie already and both these songs are forgotten gems.
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Tim tim tim taaron ke deep jale
Posted on: October 14, 2009
What is the way to win a person over ? By treating him/ her well. Musically, it means making him/her listen to music that is soothing/ pleasing to the senses. Creators of music need not impress the listeners by their ability to create great music with impressive orchestra. The listeners gets impressed more when he gets so involved in the song that he begins to visualise the imagery alluded to in the song.
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Few people have any idea that there was a movie called “Fashion” (1957). One does not expect much from the songs of a movie with such a name.
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“Kavi Kalidas” (1959) was a movie that was not a mainstream movie, rather the so called B grade movie. These were low budget movies whose subjects were often mythology . This particular movie, as its name suggests was the tale of the great Sanskrit poet Kalidas.
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Naa naa naa barso baadal
Posted on: August 28, 2009
Small time Bollywood movie producers tended to make movies of historical / mythologicals subjects in 1950s and 1960s. Most of these movies were C grade movies and the mainstream movie watchers kept away from them.
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O pawan veg se udne waale ghode
Posted on: August 27, 2009
I had last heard this song over three decades ago. I was looking for this song for quite some time. I was finally able to locate this elusive song yesterday.
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Suno suno gagan ke taaron
Posted on: July 22, 2009
I keep stumbling upon unknown songs that are gems. Today I stumbled upon a remarkable gem.
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As special songs go, this song is very special indeed. Let me enumerate why this song is special.
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Kaun ho tum kaun ho
Posted on: June 29, 2009
This song from “Stree” (1961) comes as a whiff of fresh air to me. It is so refreshing to see a Bollywood song from a lyricist who knew the topics he was writing about. Bharat Vyas, who mostly wrote songs in mythological movies, knew his mythology well. Moreover, he was one of the few lyricists at that time (Pradeep being the other) who used textbook Hindi words in their lyrics.
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San sanan jaare o pawan
Posted on: June 29, 2009
Here is a rare song from “Sampoorna Ramayana” (1961). It is sung by Lata and picturised on Anita Guha, who plays Sita in this movie.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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