Posts Tagged ‘Kishore Kumar’
“Kasauti” was a movie with Amitabh Bachchan and Hema Malini in the lead. The movie flopped badly. But there was one song in this movie that became very popular those days. It was the song ” Hum bolega to bologe ki bolta hai”. It was sung by Kishore Kumar. But it was not picturised on Amitabh, the hero of the movie, but on Pran, the erstwhile villain who had turned a new leaf into a character artist those days. In this song, he dons the garb of a gurkha.
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“Johny Mera Naam” was a musical blockbuster. Just about every song from this movie became very popular. I have already posted one song from this movie. Here is another very popular song from this movie.
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Kajra lagaake gajra sajaake
Posted on: November 10, 2008
Rajesh Khanna and Mumtaz made a very popular pair on Bollywood screen, and the duets picturised on them were an important highlights of such movies.
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Choodi nahin ye mera dil hai
Posted on: November 9, 2008
With this song, I introduce a new tag viz “choodi” song. The word “choodi” dominates this song. In this song, Dev Anand and Zaahida are seen seated behind a car, with our ageless Dev Saab singing this song “choodi nahin mera dil hai dekho toote naa”.
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Aasmaan se neeche
Posted on: November 8, 2008
Ever since I started following Bollywood movies, I have been hearing that Bollywood songs basically show Hero and Heroine running around trees. All these days I was curious to see one such song.
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Ae maine kasam li
Posted on: November 8, 2008
Dev Anand was one of the leading heart throbs of Bollywood in 1950s and 60s. It is my personal opinion that he should have retired from playing teenage hero in 1960s as soon as he turned 40.
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Ye mausam aaya hai
Posted on: November 6, 2008
This movie “Aakraman” had Rakesh Roshan and Rekha in lead roles. The movie itself hardly did much of note. But the song “Ye mausam aaya hai” from this movie was such a nice song to listen to It is a duet sung by Kishore and Lata, but it is Kishore Kumar who steals the show.
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1972 was the year when many Bollywood movie makers decided to hitch the bandwagon turned Juggernaut of Kishore Kumar- RD Burman combination. And the result were some movies that had music by R D Burman and songs by Kishore, but the movies themselves were no great shakes.
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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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