Posts Tagged ‘Kalyanji Anandji’
Ye do deewaane mil ke
Posted on: March 24, 2009
Watching old movie songs can often turn out to be lessons in history. For instance, how many people in India know that Goa was not part of India till 1961 and that it was still a Portuguese territory till 1961 ?
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Main pyaasa tum saawan
Posted on: March 14, 2009
- In: Amitabh Bachchan songs | Amitabh Bachchan songs by Kishore Kumar | Duet | expression of love | Kishore Kumar solo | Kishore Kumar songs | Kishore Kumar-Lata duet | Lata song | Multiple version song | needing each other | Songs of 1970s (1971 to 1980) | Songs of 1975 | Yearwise breakup of songs
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The movie “Faraar” is one of the lesser known movies of Amiatbh Bachchan. In fact, any movie just off the beaten track tended to end up becoming a lesser known movie, since the Bollywood spectators were just not mature enough to patronise movies that were even slightly different.
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“Haath Ki Safaai” (1974) was a movie featuring Vinod Khanna, Randhir Kapoor, Hema Malini and Rekha (I think ) Simi Garewal. Despite such names, the movie was soon forgotten.
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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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The movie “Paaras” (1971) is by now a forgotten movie. But this movie was a nice threasure trove of some very nice songs.
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There are different singers who have different effects on their listeners.
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Neend na mujhko aaye
Posted on: February 20, 2009
“Post Office Box 999”- This was the title of a 1958 movie. And this movie had some superb songs.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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