Posts Tagged ‘Kalyanji Anandji’
Dulhan Chali O pahan chali
Posted on: January 26, 2009
Here is yet another nationalistic song from a Manoj Kumar movie. The movie is “Purab Aur Paschhim” and the song is “Dulhan chali”.
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Top priority task before India in 1950s was building roads, bridges, and dams. In 1960s, the nation realised that becoming self sufficient in food stuffs was even more important. And thus came the Lal Bahadur Shastri’s slogan -“Jai Jawan Jai Kisan” (Hail the soldier, hail the farmer).
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Hamsafar mere hamsafar
Posted on: January 12, 2009
Mukesh, known for singing memorable sad songs, has also sung some memorable happy/romantic songs. In fact, Mukesh’s voice sounded like that of a man who wore his feelings on his sleeve, whatever the nature of the song. Perhaps the listeners regarded him as common man’s voice.
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- In: Feelings of heart | Lata solo | Lata song | Lyrics by Sudhir | Lyrics contributed by readers | Melancholic song | Mukesh solo | Mukesh songs | Multiple version song | sad song | Songs of 1960s (1961 to 1970) | Songs of 1965 | Translation by Sudhir | Translations by readers | Yearwise breakup of songs
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Here is another sad song sung by Mukesh. This song is from a movie called “Saheli”. The song was written by Indeewar and Kalyanji Anandji were the music directors.
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There are many songs that I describe as “chaayageet” songs. “Chaayageet” songs by my definition are those which are best listened to at night, that too alone. Words like “raat” and “tanhaayi” tend to indicate that the song is a “chaayageet” song.
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Chale thhe saath milkar
Posted on: January 6, 2009
To this date, I have not been able to understand how Shashi Kapoor survived for so long as a hero. I have noticed that most of his sucessful movies succeeded because he figured in multi starrers, where other stars carried the movie on their shoulders. And on the few occasions where Shashi Kapoor was the solo hero, the movie succeeded because of the music rather than because of Shashi Kapoor’s great histrionics. Do not tell me that “chor Machaaye shor”, for instance owes its success to Shashi Kapoor, and not to its music.
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- In: "cross dressing" song | "disguise" song | Duet | qawwali | Shammi Kapoor song by Shamshad Begam | Shammi Kapoor songs | Shamshad Begam songs | Shamshad Begam- Usha Mangeshkar duet | Songs of 1960s (1961 to 1970) | Songs of 1963 | Stage song | Translation by Raja | Translations by readers | Usha Mangeshkar songs | Yearwise breakup of songs
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While researching Shammi Kapoor’s songs, I was interested to find out who, apart from Rafi, had given playback singing for Shammi Kapoor. I came across a few songs sung by Manna Dey and Mukesh. May be I may find songs sung by a few more male playback singers.
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Here is a “choodi” song from a movie called “Jaani Dushman”, which is picturised on Jeetendra, Neetu Singh and Sarika.
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Apne jeewan ki uljhan ko
Posted on: December 25, 2008
- In: "dilemma" song | Devnagri script lyrics by Avinash Scrapwala | Kishore Kumar solo | Kishore Kumar songs | Lata solo | Lata song | Lyrics by Avinash Scrapwala | Lyrics contributed by readers | Multiple version song | Songs of 1970s (1971 to 1980) | Songs of 1975 | Theme song | Title song | Yearwise breakup of songs
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Rajshri Productions movies of 1970s tended to have their music ( as well as lyrics) by Ravindra Jain, till Ram Laxman took over in 1980s. In that respect, “Uljhan”, a 1975 Rajshri Productions movie was an exception. Its music was composed by Kalyanji Anandji whereas M G Hashmat was the lyricist.
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Barson puraana ye yaaraana
Posted on: December 20, 2008
Amitabh Bachchan movies in 1970s tended to have quite a few songs about friendships. In fact, I can readily count 4-5 such songs off the cuff – from Zanjeer, Sholay etc. In fact, two of his movies containing such songs had their titles like “Yaaraana” and “Dostana”. 😉 Another actor “specialising” in movies with such titles was Shatrughan Sinha, who in addition to figuring in “Dostana” was there in “Dost” as well.
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