Posts Tagged ‘Dilip Kumar’
Dhoondho dhoondho re saajna
Posted on: April 22, 2009
This song “dhoondho dhoondho re saajna” was on my list of farmaishes for quite some time. I have no idea whether the hero actually searches for the “baala” that the heroine asks him to do in the song, but I was certainly searching for this “gaana”. And finally I managed to locate it yesterday.
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Dil mein samaa gaye sajan
Posted on: March 31, 2009
I had never heard this song from “Sangdil”( 1952) before. Now I have, thanks to the farmaish by a new reader (Mr Sharma) of this blog.
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Here is a song that I heard many a times in Radio Ceylon in the morning between 7-30 AM to 8 AM. And as happened with me most of the time, all I knew about the song was the name of the singers, that is all.
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Ai mere dil kahin aur chal
Posted on: March 19, 2009
In my younger days, “Daag” to me meant the Rajesh Khanna movie released in 1970s and the songs of this movie were big hits.
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I am surprised to see that as many as two memorable Holi songs are from 1980s. But when I look at the credentials of the lyricists and the music directors of these songs, I realise that they were very much throwbacks of the past, and so one should not necessarily be surprised that they came with such evergreen songs on the wrong side of the golden era of Bollywood music.
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Sapnon ki suhaani duniya ko
Posted on: March 6, 2009
Wow ! What an old and timeless classic. This song is from a 1953 movie called “Shikast” starring Dilip Kumar and Nalini Jaywant.
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Ye zindagi ke mele
Posted on: March 4, 2009
This song has become an iconic song, and I just realised that this song was composed 60 years ago.
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Mere paas aao nazar to milaao
Posted on: February 17, 2009
“Sangharsh” was a movie as “recent” as 1968 when Rajesh Khanna had already taken over Bollywood as a superstar. So I am surprised that oldtimers like Dilip Kumar and Vyjyanti Mala were still playing lead roles in 1968.
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Here is yet another Piano cum Party song that was almost a must in Bollywood movies of 1960s. The hero typically would sing a song seated on a piano kept near a big staircase. The big hall would be full of the invitees to the party. Except the main characters, others would be under strict orders not to make any movements.
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“Udan Khatola” had some fantastic songs composed by Naushad which are popular even today.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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