Posts Tagged ‘Gulzar’
Meha barasne lagaa hai aaj ki raat
Posted on: June 20, 2011
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of hindi movie songs and a regular contributor to this blog.
Shaque (1976) is an off-beat social drama, with a notable star cast. The main players in this film are Vinod Khanna, Shabana Azmi, Utpal Dutt, Durga Khote, Bindu, Farida Jalal, besides other lesser known actors. The movie is written, co-produced and directed by the husband wife team of Aruna Raje and Vikas Desai. (This team also wrote and directed Gehraayee (1980) and Sitam (1982)). The theme of Shaque is about a marriage endangered by doubts and fear.
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Ek thhaa bachpan
Posted on: April 12, 2011
This article is written by Sudhir,a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie songs and a regular contributor to this blog.
There are many songs in the movies that are for the children, and many of them are sung by children. Then there is another set of songs wherein bachpan (childhood) is being bid a goodbye and there is a welcome to youth, of the ilk “Ja Ja Ja Mere Bachpan, Kahin Jaa Ke Chhup Nadaan” from movie ‘Junglee’.
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Jeewan se lambe hain bandhu
Posted on: April 10, 2011
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie songs and a regular contributor of articles to this blog.
The super Manna Dey song from Aashirwaad, 1968. Lyrics are by Gulzar and music is by Vasant Desai.
The lyrics of this song are just superb, very characteristic Gulzar poetry, use of very simple words, communicating a very profound ideas. The lines “saans ki dori chhoti pad gayee, lambi aas dagariyaa” is such a warm and touching thought, said so simply.
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Kyun udaa jaataa hai aanchal
Posted on: March 16, 2011
My regular readers may have noticed that I have been discussing quite a few Suman Kalyanpur songs these days. And indeed, I am doing this deliberately. She was nearing a milestone in this blog and I wanted her to reach there quickly.
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Katra katra mehki hai
Posted on: October 10, 2010
Today 10th october is Rekha’s birthday and on this occasion I have been posting songs picturised on Rekha. This is the sixth such song that I am discussing here.
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Saare niyam tod do
Posted on: October 10, 2010
In 1970s, we had a genre of movies that were supposed to be fun movies, which were mainly directed by Bengali directors like Hrishikesh Mukherji, Basu Chatterji etc. These movies followed their own formula of comedy.
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“Ghar” (1978) was the story of the ordinary life of an ordinary couple, which was a refreshing change from the larger than life stories depicted in most mainstream movies.
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Ghar jaayegi tar jaayegi
Posted on: September 16, 2010
“Khushboo” (1975) was a movie which was a social drama which meant that it was a movie sans “maar dhaad” (fights) that had become the norm those days.
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Most of the songs discussed in this blog are from 1970s and earlier. By 1980s, deterioration in the quality of Bollywood songs had begun and the sun of the golden era of Bollywood music was on the verge of setting.
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I always get myself confused between “Aandhi” and “Mausam”. Both these movies were released in 1975 and both these movies had Sanjeev Kumar as the hero. And both these movies were music lovers’ delight. But the fact remains that the two movies were different movies, with different heroines, different music directors etc.
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