Posts Tagged ‘Johny Walker’
“Deepawali” also called “Deewaali” means festival of lights in Hindi. There is another similar sounding unrelated word in Hindi called “deewaala” which means bankruptcy, which is nearly an antonym of deewaali. This word play of deewaali and deewaala is often used in common conversation by people.
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Dekho ji dekho meethi adaa se
Posted on: September 18, 2010
I recently discovered the songs of “Maai Baap” (1957). I also found that Johny Walker played a long role (a comedian villain) in this movie. He had more than one song in this movie.
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Main hoon Johny badaa toofaani
Posted on: September 17, 2010
I maintain that some of the most memorable O P Nayyar compositions have been picturised not on regular heroes, but on a comedian,viz Johny Walker. In some of these movies, Johny Walker in fact played the hero as well.
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Dil de de dil le le
Posted on: September 16, 2010
We all love Johny walker songs and we all love Helen songs as well. How about a song that has both of them ! Here is one such song.
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“Anjaan” (1956) is a movie starring Pradeep Kumar and Vyjyanti Mala with Premnath, Jeewan, Johny Walker, Minu Mumtaz,Helen,Raj Mehra,Mubarak etc in it.
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Johny Walker, who mostly played a comedian in Hindi movie had become so popular that he began to command one song per movie which was typically sung by Rafi. This song was often a major highlight of the movie.
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I have posted all but one song from “Madhumati” (1958) so far. This movie is arguably one of the biggest musical blockbuster movies of all time in Hindi movie history. Here is the last song from this movie that was yet to be posted.
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When I was a youngster in my teens, I was under the impression that old songs meant boring songs, which were mostly like Ghazal, sad songs etc. But it is only much later that I realised that some wonderful light hearted songs too were created those days. I have already posted many of them in this blog.
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Jawaan tum ho jawaan ham hain
Posted on: July 15, 2010
Here is a teasing song that is a beach song as well where boys (Dev Anand, Johny Walker) and girls (Vyjyanti Mala etc) are assembled at a beach. The first commandment of Bollywood movies is- “Though shall sing.” So a song ensues in which Dev Saab, all of 44 years, acts like a teenager teasing a 30 plus Vaijyanti Mala who is herself dressed like a teenager in a figure hugging tight dress. Johny Walker gives able company to the hero, as do other extras.
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The title of this movie called “Ek Phool Chaar Kaante” (1960) looks traditional enough, but I am only just discovering that the music of this movie was anything but the usual stuff.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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