Posts Tagged ‘C Ramchandra’
Jawaani ki rail chali jaaye re
Posted on: June 19, 2009
Stumbling upon songs that I never heard before is nothing new for me. But it looks like this stumbling is something different. I have really stumbled upon a rich vein of old classics this time.
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Mythological movies of Bollywood tended to be C grade movies in Bollywood and they, like stealth bombers escaped the radars of mainstream movie audiences almost entirely.
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“Zindagi aur Maut” (1965) is not a movie I am familiar with. But today I stumbled upon a song from this movie which is regarded quite highly by music lovers.
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Bhool jaayen saare gham
Posted on: May 16, 2009
“Nausherwaan e Adil” (1957) must be an Arabian Night’s tale, going by the title. But the makers of such historical/ mythological movies were not known to care much for authenticity. Thus we find the characters dressed in Greek dresses of a different era. And the biggest faux pas is Mala Sinha is seen wearing a cross !
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Ishq mein jo kuchh naa honaa thhaa
Posted on: May 15, 2009
C Ramchandra was one of the first music directors to make the most of Lata’s voice. In fact, C Ramchandra’s association with Lata was somewhat similar to O P Nayyar’s association with Asha in more ways than one. It was C Ramchandra who played an important role in making Lata the singer that she became in 1950s.
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Soorat ho to aisi ho
Posted on: May 10, 2009
I have posted many songs in this blog which I call “teasing” songs, viz songs where the girl gets teased by the boy.
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“Anarkali” (1953) was one of the all time great musical blockbusters. Its songs have gone on to become iconic songs. C Ramchandra was the music director of this movie and Rajinder Krishan had written the lyrics.
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Tu naa aaya aur hone lagi shaam re
Posted on: May 5, 2009
Many of the songs in Bollywood movies are based on folk music. This particular song was based on a folk song from the village of the grandmother of Lata. And in fact Lata herself suggested to C Ramchandra to use this folk music.
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Ye munh aur daal masoor ki
Posted on: April 29, 2009
Not too many people know much about a movie called “Baarish”. It was a movie released i 1957 and it starred Dev Anand and Nutan.
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O jaane waale
Posted on: April 24, 2009
I had posted the famous song called “mere piya gaye rangoon” sometime back in this blog. This song is from “Patanga” (1949).
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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