Posts Tagged ‘Khayyam’
Here is one song from “Thhodi si bewafaai”. The hopes, aspirations, egos etc of a couple have been described so beautifully that one cannot but help admire Gulzar’s penmanship. What amazingly great lyrics he could conjure up ! And he had a very good understanding with his music directors. No doubt, Gulzar and Khayyam came up with some soul stirring numbers in this movie.
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Hazaar raahein mudke dekhin
Posted on: December 14, 2008
After Rajesh Khanna lost his crown as the Superstar of Bollywood, he spared no efforts to regain it. He would give his best in movies after movies, but the movies would fail at the box office and even the critics would be umimpressed. Then a time came when critics began to acknowledge Rajesh Khanna’s performances, but the box office remained unrelenting.
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Tera hijr mera naseeb hai
Posted on: December 11, 2008
“Razia Sultan”, the Kamal Amrohi movie made on the only female emperor to rule Delhi, had some very nice ( and different ) songs.
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“Razia Sultan” was a movie made as a labour of love by Kamal Amrohi,but the Indian audiences were not matured enough to appreciate this movie and the movie failed at the box office.
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Dikhaayi diye yoon
Posted on: October 29, 2008
There were some small budget art movies in late 1970s and early 1980s whose plots were so life like. In fact, they depicted the lives of people of lower class, who lived in slums, unlike the masala movies, where even lower class people are shown living in palatial homes.
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Karoge yaad to
Posted on: October 28, 2008
In 1980s, Bollywood was seeing two musical fads simultaneously. One was Disco and other was ghazal. The mainstream Bollywood movies were full of disco songs where charaters would wear shiny clothes and gyrate on the tunes of racy Bappi Lahiri numbers.
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Ae dile nadaan aarzoo kya hai
Posted on: October 14, 2008
This movie, a historical movie, was adjusted as boring by janta, and they kept away. Songs of this movie did marginally better, though they were by no means Binaca geetmala chart busting songs.
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Parbaton ke pedon par
Posted on: October 8, 2008
There are many instances when songs from obscure movies went on to become evergreen. This song from a barely remembered movie called Shagoon (1964) is one such song. I have listened to this song and I liked it too, but I had no other information other than the fact that the male voice belonged to Rafi.
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