Posts Tagged ‘Hasrat Jaipuri’
Baat baat mein rootho naa
Posted on: November 9, 2009
“Seema” (1955) is a movie where Nutan played a tragedy queen role for the first time. As befitted her role, she would remain sad in the movie all the time.
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“Teesri Kasam” (1966) was a labour of love created by Shailendra. It had some lovely songs in it which were penned by Shailendra himself, excepting two. This song is one of the two songs that have been written by Hasrat Jaipuri.
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I have posted three songs from “Baadal” (1951) in the past. Here is another lovely song from this movie.
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Ae dil tu na dar iss jahaan se
Posted on: November 1, 2009
In 1950s, there were a few movies where Johny walker was the hero and O P Nayyar was the music director. One of these movies was in fact called “Johny Walker”.
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Dil achcha hai achchi hai soorat
Posted on: October 27, 2009
I have not watched the movie “Tum Haseen Main Jawaan” (1970) but going by the songs of this movie, I think this movie was one whose story was quite over the top.
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Dil ka fasaana koi na jaanaa
Posted on: October 20, 2009
1960 was a decade that saw some memorable qawwalis being created. It is not just Roshan and Ravi who created them, even some lesser known music directors came up with nice qawwalis.
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Ye aankhen uff yumma
Posted on: October 12, 2009
The movie “Jab pyaar kisi se hota hai” (1961) had music by Shankar Jaikishan, lyrics by Hasrat Jaipuri, songs by Rafi and Lata, the lead actress was Asha Parekh. All that this movie needed was Shammi Kapoor.
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While listeneing to the songs of old movies, we often praise the singer and/ or the music director, but many of us tend to underestimate the contribution of the lyricist. However great a tune, or however wonderful a voice may be, unless the singer gets a good well written song, it is not very likely that the song is going to catch the imagination of the public.
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As old songs go, there are many such songs that I am discovering for the first time these days. Here is a song that is as old and as obscure as a song can be, but this time for a change, I have heard this song before. In fact I heard the audio of this song a few years ago and I recall liking this song.
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“Qaidi no 911” (1959) was a “B grade” movie in the sense that it was an action thriller and it had Sheikh Mukhtar as action hero. When I say it was a B grade movie, I mean no disrespect. In fact, I think movies like this with Sheikh Mukhtar as hero were as good as the A grade action movies of 1970s. Yes, action movies had begun to be regarded as A grade by 1970s.
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