Posts Tagged ‘Jaan Nissar Akhtar’
Jitni haseen ho tum
Posted on: June 20, 2009
Rafi was not only gifted with a divine voice, he was also a very humble and considerate individual. He would help out struggling music directors and would sing for them virtually for nothing. And he would give his best to these songs. There are countless Rafi songs sung for anonymous music directors which were picturised on forgotten/ forgettable actors. Quite a few of these songs are very nice and hummable songs.
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Tu naa bataa hamen sab hai pataa
Posted on: May 20, 2009
Here is another interesting song from “Baap re Baap” (1955). I call this a “jhoola” song, where a lady (Smriti Biswas? Chand Usmani ? ) is swinging on a “jhoola” and singing this song. Kishore Kumar is also there and he goes round and round trees, dancing his unique dance and playing a mouth organ all the time.
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Daal kaise gale
Posted on: May 19, 2009
“Baap Re Baap” (1955) was one of the earliest movies of Kishore Kumar as an actor-singer. In this movie he sang a few comedy songs under the music direction of O P Nayyar.
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One two three four
Posted on: April 20, 2009
Though most Bollywood songs in 1950s were based on desi music ( classical and folk music), western music were also being introduced those days. C Ramchandra was one of the main pioneers who introduced western music in Bollywood. Another such pioneer was N Dutta.
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Nashe mein ham nashe mein tum
Posted on: April 18, 2009
When someone talks about “Black Cat”, one thinks of the well armed special protection group commandoes who protect VVIPs of India. But long ago in more laidback days, black cat only meant what it literally means, viz ‘kaali billi”, the small domesticated cat which, if it crossed your way, was considered inauspicious (for you, not for the cat itself).
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Jab baadal lahraaya
Posted on: April 4, 2009
I had just mentioned while posting one such song that there were very few “baadal” songs in Bollywood movies.
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Meri neendon me tum
Posted on: February 27, 2009
There are actors who are known for playing happy go lucky roles and there are actresses who are known for playing melancholic roles. How to make these actresses play cheerful roles ? simple, make them act in the same movies in which the cheerful happy go lucky actor is also acting.
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It is a song that I call as a “Tonga” song, and for good reasons. The music of O P Nayyar very much reminds one of a horse hoofing along merrily drawing the tonga along. And the picturisation actually shows a tonga with Kishore Kumar and Chand Usmani as its passengers.
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Tera hijr mera naseeb hai
Posted on: December 11, 2008
“Razia Sultan”, the Kamal Amrohi movie made on the only female emperor to rule Delhi, had some very nice ( and different ) songs.
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“Razia Sultan” was a movie made as a labour of love by Kamal Amrohi,but the Indian audiences were not matured enough to appreciate this movie and the movie failed at the box office.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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