Posts Tagged ‘Kishore Kumar’
The most credit for a Bollywood movie song goes ( or should go) to the music director. It is he who gets the lyricist to write the song, decides on the orchestra and tells the singer (s) how to sing the song.
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Beqaraar dil tu gaaye jaa
Posted on: May 28, 2009
I have heard this song earlier, but I did not pay much attention while doing that. And afterwards I have read lots and lots of nice things about this song. People regard it as one of the best songs that Kishore Kumar has ever sung.
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This movie “Phaandebaaz” (1978) was rightly panned by the critics for being a hopeless movie, and so it proved. The movie failed at the box office and by now it is a forgotten movie.
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Tumko bhi to aisa hi kuchh
Posted on: May 27, 2009
Market forces are in play everywhere, including Bollywood. And this song is a good example of that.
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Tu auron ki kyon ho gayi
Posted on: May 24, 2009
Joy Mukherji, Debu Mukherji and Somu Mukherji were brothers and they were from a well connected family. Their father was Shashdhar Mukherji, a big name in Bollywood movie making. Their uncle (chacha) was Subodh Mukherji, the well known movie producer. From their mother’s side, they were connected to Ashok Kumar, Kishore Kumar and Anup Kumar, who were their mamas.
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Wow! This song is from “Putlibai” (1972) ! I have listened to this song in the past and loved it, but I became aware about any details of this song only just now.
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Sapnon ke shahar ham banaayenge ghar
Posted on: May 22, 2009
G P Sippy, who was on a high after “Sholay”, was making his next big movie called “Shaan” which was taking too long to get completed.
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Dilip Kumar has mostly sung in the voice of Rafi, Talat Mahmood and Mukesh. But there is one movie where he sings in the voice of Kishore kumar as well. This movie is “Sagina”(1974) which came at the fag end of Dilip Kumar’s career as hero.
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Tu naa bataa hamen sab hai pataa
Posted on: May 20, 2009
Here is another interesting song from “Baap re Baap” (1955). I call this a “jhoola” song, where a lady (Smriti Biswas? Chand Usmani ? ) is swinging on a “jhoola” and singing this song. Kishore Kumar is also there and he goes round and round trees, dancing his unique dance and playing a mouth organ all the time.
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Bachke rahna re baba
Posted on: May 19, 2009
When one talks of “Pukaar”, one means Sohrab Modi’s historical movie of 1939. But another movie of this name was released in 1983 which had Amitabh Bachchan, Zeenat Aman and Randhir Kapoor in lead roles.
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