Posts Tagged ‘Gulzar’
Rut albeli mast samaan
Posted on: September 16, 2009
When one watches old Bollywood songs, one can often see things that then existed at that time. For instance, watching the Bombay of old Bollywood movies give us a glimpse of that city as it then was.
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Chappa chappa charkha chale
Posted on: September 8, 2009
“Maachis” (1996) had two songs that I was aware of and which I liked. I have posted one of them yesterday. Here is the second song from this movie.
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Chhod aaye ham wo galiyaan
Posted on: September 7, 2009
Most of the songs in this blog are from 1950s and 1960s, so going by the standards of this blog, this song is a brand new song, in mint condition. 🙂
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Ae zindagi gale lagaa le
Posted on: September 7, 2009
1980s was when I had begun to lose track of Bollywood songs and movies. The fact that it also coincided with the time when the quality of songs was going downhill was also one of the factors.
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“Swayamwar” (1980) was a nice movie with a “Chandamama” style story. And that was not surprising, because this movie was produced by the same people who were the owners of this popular childrens’ magazine.
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Chaand churaa ke laaya hoon
Posted on: July 28, 2009
“Devtaa” (1978) was a small budget off beat movie with Sanjeev Kumar and Shabana Azmi in lead roles. The movie itself did reasonably well with its small target audience, and then the movie was forgotten.
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Dabe labon se kabhi jo koyi
Posted on: June 23, 2009
I stumble upon so many “new” songs from yesteryears that I have stopped getting surprised. I am just pleased every time I get to listen to such songs for the first time.
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“Palkon ki Chhaon mein”(1977) was a movie starring Rajesh Khanna and Hema Malini. Despite boasting such big names, and despite a very nice storyline, the movie was a box office failure.
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Mera dil jo meraa hotaa
Posted on: May 27, 2009
“Anubhav” (1971) was a small budget movie which was not only different, it was in fact far ahead of its time. Not just the laymen, even the movie critics had yet to mature to appreciate such movies.
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Tere bina jiyaa jaaye naa
Posted on: May 11, 2009
Gulzar and R D Burman came together for the first time in “Parichay” (1972) and even since, they worked together in many movies till “Masoom” (1983) and gave us some memorable songs. One such movie, where they collaborated together was “Ghar” (1978).
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