Posts Tagged ‘Kishore Kumar’
Paanch rupaiyya barah aana
Posted on: March 30, 2009
As funny songs go, this song is hard to beat.
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BA, MA, PhD
Posted on: March 30, 2009
Here is yet another song about whose existence I was totally ignorant. And what a superb song it is ! It is from the movie “Adhikaar” (1954) from which I have already posted an equally awesome song ( “kamaata hoon bahut kuch” sung by Kishore Kumar and Geeta Dutt).
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Ab main jaaun
Posted on: March 29, 2009
Kishore Kumar and Mumtaz were signed up for a movie called “Pyaar Deewaana” in 1966 when both were relatively small time players in Bollywood scheme of things. The makers of the movie were equally small time players who had signed up small time artists for other tasks viz lyrics writing, music direction etc too and the shooting of this movie progressed at snail’s pace.
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This song is a rather uncharacteristic song on many counts, when viewed in hindsight.
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Apni aadat hai sabko salaam karna
Posted on: March 27, 2009
This is a very special song in more ways than one.
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O meri chammakchallo
Posted on: March 25, 2009
When I was a young kid, I was made to believe that the hero-heroine would always be seen singing their love songs while running around trees. I am not very sure because I have not seen too many such songs.
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Kabhi khole na tizori ka taala
Posted on: March 24, 2009
Now a days, we keep talking about the deterioration in the quality of Bollywood songs and we fondly remember the days gone by when there used to be high quality songs.
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“Nai Dilli” (1956) was a movie starring Kishore Kumar and Vyjyanti Mala. This movie to my mind was a landmark movie in my mind because one could see the New Delhi of that time and amuse oneself by comparing that with the present day New Delhi. Many present day landmarks of New Delhi were non existent or looked very different those days.
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Tum saath ho jab apne
Posted on: March 21, 2009
“Kaalia” was a movie starring Amitabh Bachchan and Parveen Babi. This movie had music by R D Burman and he came up with some memorable music.
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Jahaan teri ye nazar hai
Posted on: March 20, 2009
“Kaalia” (1980) was one of the last Amitabh Bachchan movies in which R D Burman gave music. The music of this movie was quite popular.
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