Posts Tagged ‘Kalyanji Anandji’
Do kadam tum bhi chalo
Posted on: May 1, 2009
Here is a song that can be called an iconic song. I have been listening to this song for decades and liking it too, but all this while I was totally in the dark about the creators of this song.
Read more on this topic…
Ye duniya waale poochhenge
Posted on: April 29, 2009
Umbrella is typically used in Bollywood movies to protect actors from rain, and sometimes sun. Hero and heroine sharing an umbrella and getting drenched makes for some of the most romantic scenes in Bollywood movies. Of course, it is much more romantic if they dispense with umbrella and decide to get drenched in rain.
Read more on this topic…
I was not even aware that there was a Dev Anand movie called “Mahal”(1969). Of course I have heard the songs of this movie, without being aware that the song I was listening to was from this movie.
Read more on this topic…
Tumhe jo bhi dekh lega
Posted on: April 22, 2009
I wonder how many movies were there titled as “Majboor” ? The one I knew while growing up was Amitabh Bachchan’s 1974 movie of this name. And it appears that there was a movie by this name sometime in 1940s too. And now I find that there was a 1964 movie of this name too.
Read more on this topic…
“Chhaliya”(1960) was a Raj Kapoor movie and it had Mukesh singing for him as usual. But its music team was not Shailendra and Shankar Jaikishan. Rather, Qamar Jalalabadi had written the songs and Kalyanji Anandji, then in their early years as music directors had got this big break to compose music in this movie. This movie incidentally was the debut movie for director Manmohan Desai as well.
Read more on this topic…
“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.
Read more on this topic…
Iktaara boley kuchh kahe wo tumse
Posted on: April 13, 2009
Manoj Kumar was a movie maker who would make movies with simplistic messages telling India was good, west was bad ( Purab aur paschim), Villagers were good, city folks were bad ( Upkaar ) etc. In this connection, here is this movie “Yaadgaar” (1970) where Manoj Kumar continues to shove his ideals down the throats of public.
Read more on this topic…
Koi aa jaaye
Posted on: April 7, 2009
I have posted two nice songs from this 1958 movie called “Post Box 999” in the past. Here is another song from this movie.
Read more on this topic…
Chhaliya mera naam
Posted on: April 6, 2009
Movies, unlike books are meant for the lowest common denominator of the population, and that includes lots of people who are illiterates and of modest intelligence.That is why Bollywood movies have storylines where even the obvious needed to be stated clearly lest the audience be left in doubt.
Read more on this topic…
Hamne Tujhko pyaar kiya hai itna
Posted on: April 3, 2009
Here is a typical Mukesh-Raj Kapoor song, where Raj Kapoor lip syncs on a sad Mukesh song.
Read more on this topic…




Recent comments