Posts Tagged ‘Dev Anand’
Dil jale to jale
Posted on: July 14, 2009
“Taxi Driver” (1954) is too old a movie for much of the present day music lovers. Still, its songs continue to charm people even today.
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Tin kanastar peet peet kar
Posted on: July 13, 2009
This was not a song that was created with the aim of becoming an all time classic, nor did it become one. It was a light hearted song, which was Shankar Jaikishan’s way of taking a dig at the fad of copying Western music and using them in Bollywood movies.
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Yahi to hai wo yahi to hai
Posted on: July 12, 2009
When it comes to the movie “Solva saal” (1958), most people are familiar with just one song from this movie, viz “hai apna dil to aawaara”. This song, sung by Hemant Kumar was the most popular song of that year.
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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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The movie as well as this song from the movie lies forgotten today, but this song from “Banarasi Babu” (1973) was quite popular those days.
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If one listens to just the audio of this song, it sounds unmistakably like a song from a Shammi Kapoor movie. The song is sung by Rafi and Asha Bhonsle, Lyrics is by Hasrat Jaipuri, music is by Shankar Jaikishan. It all seems to add up. The song even has Rafi shouting “Hurray” (reminiscent of “Yaahoo” in an earlier Shammi Kapoor movie)
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Sun sun sun re balam
Posted on: June 27, 2009
Yesterday I posted a long pending farmaish for a song of “Pyaar Mohaabat” (1966). Today, I am posting the other song from this movie, and with that my backlog of farmaishes from 2008 is cleared. 😉
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Dekho dekho madam
Posted on: June 26, 2009
A couple of songs from “Pyaar Mohabbat” (1966) are the two longest pending farmaishes for this blog. And I was unable to post these songs since I could not locate these songs all these days. Moreover, I too was curious about these songs, since these songs were “new” for me.
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This song is a quintessential “villain’s den” party song that we tended to have in Bollywood movies of 1970s. In most of these songs, the hero and heroine would enter villain’s high security party as the lead singers/dancers yet the villains would remain in the dark till the song is over.
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Kisi ke thukraakar armaan
Posted on: June 15, 2009
“Pocketmaar” (1956) was a movie featuring Dev Anand, Geeta Bali and Nadira.
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