Posts Tagged ‘Hema Malini’
“Johny Mera Naam” (1970) was perhaps the last time a Dev Anand movie turned out to be very successful at box office, though “Des Pardes” (1978) was also successful.
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ABCD chhodo nainon se naina jodo
Posted on: April 5, 2009
I have noticed that Bollywood movie offers songs for all occasions and all occupations. For example, beggars, band parties of weddings etc have been using appropriate songs for decades.
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Tum jo chale gaye to
Posted on: March 31, 2009
Dharmendra- Hema Malini pairing was the most popular pairing of Bollywood in entire 1970s and for the first few years of 1980s as well.
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Meri paayaliyaa geet tere gaaye
Posted on: March 30, 2009
This was a wonderful “paayaliya” song from “Jugnu” (1973), before the newer “paayaliya ” song came up two decades later in “Deewaana” (1992).
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Jaaneman tum kamaal karti ho
Posted on: March 19, 2009
In Bollywood movies, hero and heroines would traditionally meet in gardens and would be going round the trees, much like gorillas or chimps going through their mating rituals. Being more evolved than the apes, they would sing a duet while running around trees.
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Tere sau deewaane
Posted on: March 15, 2009
Few people have heard the name of this movie and fewer people may have heard this song, but that was not the case all the time. During 1973, this song “tere sau deewaane” used to be quite a popular song.
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“Joshila” (1973) is one of the lesser known movies starring Dev Anand with the then young heroines Hema Malini and Rakhi. The movie failed at the box office and few people recall what this movie was all about.
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Hori khele Raghuveera Awadh mein
Posted on: March 11, 2009
I am of the opinion that most great Bollywood songs on any topic were created before 1980. After 1980, there was a steady deterioration in the quality of such songs where lyrics took the back seat and plagiarised “disco” tunes replaced erstwhile tunes.
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Holi ke din dil khil jaate hain
Posted on: March 10, 2009
If the iconic movie of 1957 (Mother India) had a memorable Holi song, then the same was the case with the iconic movie of 1975 (Sholay).
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Toone o rangeele kaisa jaadoo kiyaa
Posted on: March 4, 2009
“Kudrat” (1981) had some fine songs. This movie which had Hema Malini and Rajesh Khanna in lead roles was in fact a musical blockbuster.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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