Posts Tagged ‘Indeewar’
“Elaan” (1971)was a box office disaster, otherwise I would have definitely heard more about this movie.
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Mal de gulaal mohe
Posted on: March 11, 2009
Have you ever felt like a student taking an examination who is unable to recall the correct answers during the examination, only to be able to recall them perfectly well after the exam is over ? well, I am feeling the same way vis a vis Holi songs.
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Koyi jab tumhaara hriday tod de
Posted on: March 1, 2009
This song stands out among the songs of 1970 because of its “shudddh” Hindi words. Words like “Hriday” for “dil” really won my “hriday” over when I first heard this song.
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This philosophical song from “Upkaar” was one which Indeewar had written a few years earlier and Anandji ( of Kalyanji Anandji music director duo) liked it so much that he kept the lyrics with him. When a situation arose for this kind of a song in Manoj Kumar’s Upkaar, Kalyanji Anandji were ready with this song.
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I have realised that there have been quite a few songs on rivers in general, and the river “Ganga” in particular. So I have opened a new tag called “Ganga” songs, and I am sure there are quite a few such songs that I have already posted here.
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There were quite a few songs containing “Zindagi” in their lyrics those days, and almost all of them were very popular songs. In fact, it was like each one of these songs gave a different interpretation of “Zindagi”. Some song would call “Zindagi” “ek paheli”, some would call it a “naatak”, some would call it a “khel” etc.
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Roshan tumhin se duniya
Posted on: February 6, 2009
“Parasmani” was the first movie of Laxmikant Pyarelal as independent music directors. And what an amazing debut they had !
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“Saraswati Chandra” is not a movie that too many people remember now. This lead actors in this movie were Nutan and Manish (who ?) and it was a Black and white movie in an era when colour movies had become the vogue.
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This song from “Purab Aur Paschim” is the most well known patriotic song from Manoj Kumar, along with the “Upkaar” song.
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Dulhan Chali O pahan chali
Posted on: January 26, 2009
Here is yet another nationalistic song from a Manoj Kumar movie. The movie is “Purab Aur Paschhim” and the song is “Dulhan chali”.
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