Posts Tagged ‘Gulzar’
Beeti na bitaayi rainaa
Posted on: May 11, 2009
All these days, I was under the impression that I had already posted this song in the blog. It was only yesterday that I noticed that I had posted another song from “Parichay” , and not this one.
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Hawaaon pe likh do hawaaon ke naam
Posted on: April 19, 2009
Wow! What an amazing song ! I have listened to this song in the past, but only in passing and without paying much attention. Now that I have listened to it and watched the picturisation, I am just floored.
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Koi hota jisko apna
Posted on: April 10, 2009
Kishore Kumar has sung a large number of songs for the leading actors of their eras, viz Dev Anand, Rajesh Khanna and Amitabh Bachchan. In addition, he also sang many songs for actors who were near the top, but who never quite reached there.
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Mausam mausam lovely mausam
Posted on: March 9, 2009
There was one chalu timepass song in the movie called “Thodi Si Bewafaai” (1980), that was fairly popular at that time. This song was a duet sung by lesser singers (Anwar and Sulakshana Pandit) and the song went “Mausam mausam lovely mausam”. One oes not associate such chaalu kind of lyrics from Gulzar but he actually wrote this lyrics.
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Meri jaan mujhe jaan na kaho
Posted on: March 2, 2009
I know that “Anubhav” was an art movie ( as off beat small budget movies were called those days) and I was aware that it has one nice song by Manna Dey, viz “hansne ki chaah ne kitna mujhe rulaaya hai”. I have posted this song in the blog sometime back.
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Tum aa gaye ho noor aa gaya hai
Posted on: March 1, 2009
When the makers of this movie made this movie, no one was left in any doubt that the movie was based on Mrs Indira Gandhi’s life, with Suchitra Sen playing her role. And very imaginatively, they called his movie “Andhi”, removing the first letter “G” from “Gandhi”. The movie was released during emergency, and to this day, I am amazed at the risk that the makers of this movie took. Another movie, “Kissa Kursi ka” which mocked Indira Gandhi and her son, did not meet with the same kind fate with the censors at that time.
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Hamko man ki shakti dena
Posted on: January 31, 2009
This is a prayer from “Guddi” which was the debut movie of Jaya Bhaduri and who had played the title role in this movie.
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Jab bhi ye dil udaas hota hai
Posted on: January 23, 2009
I have heard this song “jab bhi ye dil udaas hota hai” quite a few times in the past and I have liked it too. It is an ideal song when you feel sad, as the song says.
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Bole re papeehara
Posted on: January 22, 2009
Early 1970 saw a new voice in Bollywood music world and the Indian media, as hasty as always, announced that Lata finally had a rival.
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Hamsafar mere hamsafar
Posted on: January 12, 2009
Mukesh, known for singing memorable sad songs, has also sung some memorable happy/romantic songs. In fact, Mukesh’s voice sounded like that of a man who wore his feelings on his sleeve, whatever the nature of the song. Perhaps the listeners regarded him as common man’s voice.
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