Posts Tagged ‘Khayyam’
Tera phoolon jaisa rang
Posted on: December 8, 2012
“Kabhi Kabhi” (1976) was a movie that I became aware of when its title song began to play on radio. I found the title song quite antiquated in its tune. Those were the days when anything not sung by Kishore Kumar or not composed by R D Burman was regarded as old by me. I found that the music of this movie was composed by someone called Khayyam. and that is how I became familiar with this name.
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This article is written by Peevesie’s mom, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
A few days back on the occasion of Amitabh and Rekha’s birthday I spoke of how famous or popular or well received their pairing was in Bollywood movies. There were other such equally popular jodis. Viz. Rishi Kapoor- Neetu Singh, Vinod Mehra- Moushmi Chaterjee, Rajesh Khanna with Sharmila Tagore, Rajesh Khanna with Mumtaz, Rajesh Khanna with Asha Parekh etc in my growing up years. Actually I thought that Jaya Bhaduri never made a geat pair on screen with Amitabh, I liked her more with Sanjeev Kumar or even Jeetendra. There were popular pairing in the previous generation of stars too. But I think we have more knowledgeable people in our group to list them. Now what made a pairing popular was how well they looked together or how had their movie fared at the box office or how much recall value their songs had.
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Hey Ambike Jagdambike Hey Maa
Posted on: October 24, 2012
“Baawri” (1982) is a recent movie by the standards of this blog, but this movie has already been forgotten and its details are not known to most people. This movie was directed by A C Trilogchandar. The movie had Rakesh Roshan, Jayaprada, Yogita Bali, Dr Shreeram Lagoo etc in it.
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Ye raat bahut rangeen sahi
Posted on: October 1, 2012
“Shagoon” or “Shagun” (1964) was a Shaheen Art production. It was directed by Nazar. The movie had Kamaljeet, Waheeda Rehman, Neena, Achla Sachdev, Libi Rana, Nazir Hussain, Nana Palsikar, Pratima Devi, Rajdeep, Chand Usmani etc in it.
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I am aware of a movie called “Dil e Naadaan” (1953). It turns out that a movie of the same title was released in 1981 too.
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I am aware of a movie called “Dard” (1947) which had that immortal Umadevi song Afsana likh rahi hoon dil e beqaraar ka. It turns out that another movie of the same name was released in 1981 too.
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By 1977, Rekha’s career was going nowhere and movie critics commented that she was wasting her career like Faryal. Faryal was held as the gold standard of career wasters those days, though I suppose Randhir Kapoor was not far behind her.
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Anniversaries of artists often serve as wake up call in this blog. It galvanises me as well as the contributors of this blog into action and many of the well known songs which had not appeared get lined up for inclusion in the blog.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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