Posts Tagged ‘Dev Anand’
Dil aaj shaayar hai
Posted on: March 19, 2009
I have mentioned earlier that Dev Anand outlived his stay as a leading man in Bollywood movies. as a result, many stories with great ideas flopped just because Dev Saab insisted on playing the hero in those movies. In fact, legend has it that Prakash Mehra had wanted to cast Dev Saab in “Zanjeer”. Dev Saab liked the role, but he wanted Prakash Mehra to sell him the story so that he could make this movie in his own way ( and hopefully add one more flop to his CV). Thankfully Prakash Mehra refused and the rest, as they say, is history with Amitabh Bachchan playing that role.
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Dev Anand was well past his sell by date as a hero in 1970s, but Dev Saab did not realise that and continued to act in one flop movie after another. In the process, many nice songs picturised on him suffered the same fate as the movie.
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Sach huye sapne tere
Posted on: March 16, 2009
“Kaala Bazaar” (1960) was a movie featuring Dev Anand and Waheeda Rahman. This movie had some nice songs.
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Tere sau deewaane
Posted on: March 15, 2009
Few people have heard the name of this movie and fewer people may have heard this song, but that was not the case all the time. During 1973, this song “tere sau deewaane” used to be quite a popular song.
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“Joshila” (1973) is one of the lesser known movies starring Dev Anand with the then young heroines Hema Malini and Rakhi. The movie failed at the box office and few people recall what this movie was all about.
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Chupke se miley pyaase pyaase
Posted on: March 15, 2009
There have been at least two movies called “Manzil” that I know. I have posted one rain song from the newer “Manzil” starring Amitabh Bachchan. Here is a duet from the older “Manzil” starring Dev Anand and Nutan.
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Aise na mujhe tum dekho
Posted on: March 6, 2009
Dev Anand was a popular hero in 1950s and 1960s. But unfortunately he did not know when to call it a day. He continued to act one fourth his age long into 1980s with most of his movies falling flat at the box office.
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I have listened to this song lots of times. But I was not aware till now which movie this song is from, and who figured in the picturisation.
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Ye raat ye chaandni phir kahaan
Posted on: February 24, 2009
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Most of the time, I do not remember more than the first one or two lines of a song, and therefore my appreciation of such songs is not all that indepth.
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During 1970s, when I would try to tune radio Ceylon on wednesday night between 8 PM to 9 PM, tuning to the desired station was not as easy as it is for TV stations. There were so many radio stations on the same 25 metre band and getting a clear reception of Radio Ceylon, while avoiding voices of Voice of America, BBC etc was quite an art.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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