Posts Tagged ‘Kishore Kumar’
Legend has it that Salil Chaudhari, the leading music director of 1950s refused to take Kishore Kumar seriously on finding out that Kishore Kumar was untrained in classical music. But when he listened to Kishore Kumar’s voice, Salil Chaudhari changed his opinion and agreed to use Kishore Kumar’s voice in his forthcoming movie called “Naukri”, where Kishore Kumar incidentally was acting too.
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Ek cheez maangte hain
Posted on: November 5, 2008
Early years of 1970s saw a trend ( short lived though) where we had some songs where the the lyrics were quite direct. I call such songs as “straight talk” songs, where there is no beating about the bush. I have already posted a few such “straight talk” songs, for example “dil machal raha hai” from “Khalifa”.
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Main to chala jidhar chale rasta
Posted on: November 3, 2008
Wow ! This was a song that I liked very much those days, before I forgot all about it since the song stopped playing on radio and loudspeakers. And now I have listened to this song once again after some 35 years.
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Jaane chaman jaane bahaar
Posted on: November 2, 2008
I had listened to this song quite often in Radio Ceylon “aaphi ke geet” programme , which was a farmaishi programme catering to listeners from Jhumri Tilaiyya and elsewhere. But I do not think this song became particularly popular in Binaca geetmala or with those plying records on loudspeakers during those days of 1974. In fact, I was not even aware which movie this song was from.
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Pyaar hua hai jabse
Posted on: October 31, 2008
What do I say about this song ? It was a big favourite of mine as well as that of others. But those days one could only listen what was played on radio and loudspeakers. So as a song stopped playing on these media, one tended to forget the song.
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Gori gori gaaon ki gori re
Posted on: October 30, 2008
“Ye Gulistaan hamara” was a Dev Anand movie that few people remember today. The movie itself sank without a trace.
Ironically, this movie had a better storyline than some of the rubbish Dev Anand movies that met with better fate at the box office. May be the movie deserved it because Dev Anand in any case would not bother much about authenticity of picturisation in his movies.
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Meri lottery lag jaane waali hai
Posted on: October 29, 2008
There are many songs that become popular in its time and then go on to achieve evergreen status. And then there are many songs that achieve considerable popularity during their time, only to get forgotten with passage of time.
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Rungoli sajaao
Posted on: October 28, 2008
In 1950s and early 1960s, Kishore Kumar, in addition to playback singing, acted as an actor cum singer in movies. He was in fact the lead actor in many such movies, and he made a reasonably popular pair with Vyjyanti Mala those days.
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Ek haseena thi ek deewaana thha
Posted on: October 28, 2008
“Karz” of 1980 was a musical blockbuster. Though many fans were not aware about it, but most tunes in that movie were lifted from western tunes, including the most popular ” meri umar ke nauzawaanon”. Of course, all that plagiarism did not affect the popularity of Bollywood songs of this , or any other movies, in any ways.
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In case heroes of Bollywood movies need to save a damsel in distress, there are various methods. One method is direct action method, where the hero comes charging in and singlehandedly destroys the villain’s hideout.
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