Posts Tagged ‘Kishore Kumar’
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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Raahi thha main aawaara
Posted on: March 20, 2009
“Sahib Bahadur” (1977) was one of the forgettable movies of Dev Anand. Incidentally, it was a remake of another Dev Anand movie called “Afsar” (1950) which was presumably less forgettable.
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Dil aaj shaayar hai
Posted on: March 19, 2009
I have mentioned earlier that Dev Anand outlived his stay as a leading man in Bollywood movies. as a result, many stories with great ideas flopped just because Dev Saab insisted on playing the hero in those movies. In fact, legend has it that Prakash Mehra had wanted to cast Dev Saab in “Zanjeer”. Dev Saab liked the role, but he wanted Prakash Mehra to sell him the story so that he could make this movie in his own way ( and hopefully add one more flop to his CV). Thankfully Prakash Mehra refused and the rest, as they say, is history with Amitabh Bachchan playing that role.
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Dev Anand was well past his sell by date as a hero in 1970s, but Dev Saab did not realise that and continued to act in one flop movie after another. In the process, many nice songs picturised on him suffered the same fate as the movie.
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