Posts Tagged ‘Kalyanji Anandji’
“Saraswati Chandra” is not a movie that too many people remember now. This lead actors in this movie were Nutan and Manish (who ?) and it was a Black and white movie in an era when colour movies had become the vogue.
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This Mukesh song is from a 1965 movie called ‘Himalay ki God mein” . This song is written by Anand Bakshi and the music was composed by Kalyanji Anandji.
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Chaand aahen bharega
Posted on: January 27, 2009
Mukesh is reputed to be a singer par excellence as far as sad songs were concerned. But I am finding that Mukesh was a singer par excellence for romantic songs as well. The kinds of songs where he sings for the lady sound so sincere and sensuous that these songs have no option but to straighaway walk into the hall of fame of immortal songs.
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Hamne jo dekhe sapne
Posted on: January 27, 2009
It was one of those songs that I loved listening to without having a clue which movie this song was from. And of course I did not know anything about lyricists and music directors those day. I used to think that the singers themselves wrote the song and composed the music too.
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This song from “Purab Aur Paschim” is the most well known patriotic song from Manoj Kumar, along with the “Upkaar” song.
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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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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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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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