Posts Tagged ‘Jaidev’
There are many people who may think that this is a non filmy prayer. That is how well known this song is.
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In 1970s, alternative cinema was gaining strength where stories of real life common people was told, instead of telling make believe stories.
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Ye neer kahaan se barse hain
Posted on: May 19, 2009
Whenever someone talks of ‘Prem Parbat”, I am reminded of the song “Ye dil aur unki nigaahon ke saaye”. In fact, this movie and this song are almost synonymous for many people, including me.
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When it comes to music of a movie, it is the music director that gets much of the credit for the song ( alongwith the singer and the lyricist, of course). It is often the assistant music director/ arranger who is often does the real work and still he remains unsung.
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“Ham Dono” was a 1961 movie featuring Dev Anand ( double role) with Nanda and Sadhana. This movie had Dev Anand in the role of an army man.
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Jaidev served as assistants to leading music directors of his era for most of his career. On a few occasions that he got to compose music as an independent music director, he did a very good job. But it takes a lot more than just the ability to compose great music. Jaidev composed some fantastic music, but his name would not sell as a music director, so he repaetedly had to go back to his job as assistants to leading music directors viz S D Burman, Madan Mohan etc.
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Do deewaane shahar mein
Posted on: October 25, 2008
Here is a fantastic song from “Gharonda”. Neither the movie, nor the song were mainstream ones by the standards of 1977, but this song and this movie struck the right chords in the hearts of the audience.
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Seene mein jalan
Posted on: October 25, 2008
This ghazal was from the movie Gaman (1978). It was an art movie, and art movies those days tended to have ghazals in them. In fact, art movies often had lots of ghazals which became quite popular.
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This fantastic song that has become a memorable song indelibly etched on the psyches of music lovers across the generations was a magical song when it was released in 1961. This song, picturised on Dev Anand and Sadhna has remained popular ever since. Few people have much idea about the movie ( Hum dono) or about the music director (Jaidev), but the song is one which was never forgotten, so there is no question of this song being not known to any bollywood music listener.
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