Posts Tagged ‘Kishore Kumar’
Most of the time, I discuss songs that are evergreen, popular, iconic, outstanding, of high quality etc. But there are occasions when I love to discuss songs that fall short of such high standards. But I still like them, because listeneing/ watching them is fun.
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Kishore Kumar is known for singing happy songs bubbling with joie de vivre. But that is not all. He could sing sad songs just as well. In fact, he has sung some wonderful sad songs reflecting different shades of sadness.
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In 1950s, there were a few movies, (now forgotten) that had Delhi (Dilli) in the title of the movie. These movies tended to have Kishore Kumar in the lead role. For example, Kishore Kumar acted in “Nai Dilli” (1957) as well as “Dilli ka thug” (1959).
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It is one of the iconic songs of 1970s. It is the title song of the movie “Chalte Chalte”. It was a small budget off beat movie. The lead actors in this movie were Vishal Anand ( credited as Vishal in the movie), Simi Garewal and Nazneen.
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Pyar maanga hai tumhi se
Posted on: November 24, 2008
In olden days, when one listened to songs on Radio, the listeners would need to have all the knowledge about a song, in case they wanted to send their farmaish for a song.
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O meri sharmilee
Posted on: November 23, 2008
Rajesh Khanna’s superstardom owes a good deal to the fact that Kishore Kumar was the playback singer for him. In fact, the next superstar viz Amitabh Bachchan too owes it to Kishore Kumar’s voice for much of his popularity.
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Is mod se jaate hain
Posted on: November 22, 2008
When I began to listen to farmaishi programmes on Radio, I would pay close attention to the details about the song that were mentioned by the announcer.
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Chhoti si ye duniya
Posted on: November 19, 2008
Considering that it is Shailendra who wrote the lyrics and Shankar Jaikishan who composed the music, it could as well be Mukesh singing for Raj Kapoor, but here it is Kishore Kumar singing for himself in “Rangoli”.
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