Posts Tagged ‘Lata’
Phir ek baar kaho
Posted on: August 27, 2010
I have posted as many as four songs from “Maayaa” (1961) and all these songs are timeless classics. Now it has been pointed out to me that there are more memorable songs in it. So based on the list of songs provided by Sid in the farmaish page, I am now geared up to post the remaining songs from this movie.
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“Sahaara” (1958) was one of the first (if not the first) movie where Meena Kumari took her first steps toward tragedy roles. In this movie, she plays a blind woman, though her character appears quite positive in this movie, based on the picturisation of songs on her in this movie.
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Saanchi kaho mose baalmaa
Posted on: August 26, 2010
I have mentioned that Ganesh is one music director who unfortunately did not get the credit that he so richly deserved. His songs are so difficult to come by and even in these songs we often find his name missing. Even the uploaders of his songs are often unaware about Ganesh.
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Agar main poochhoon jawaab doge
Posted on: August 26, 2010
This post is written by Raja, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor of posts to this blog
Shikari (1963) was a B-movie, starring Ajit and Ragini. I had the pleasure of watching it a few months ago and I must say I thoroughly enjoyed it. It is a typical jungle adventure story with the necessary ingredients of tigers, gorillas and such. This may not be to everybody’s taste but I do enjoy such movies, even at this age. 😉
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Laagi chhoote naa ab to sanam
Posted on: August 26, 2010
I have mentioned it that this blog has songs from nearly 1000 Hindi movies as of now. The list of moviewise songs that I have provided gives us a good idea of the songs that have been posted. With time, I have posted all the songs from some movies- viz “Barsaat”(1949), “Dholak”(1950), “Madhumati” (1958) etc. In case of other movies, I am gradually building up the list song by song.
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Meri qismat mein tu nahin shaayad
Posted on: August 25, 2010
The initial movies of Raj Kapoor were made with Raj Kapoor as hero and Nargis/Vyjyanti Mala/Padmini etc as leading lady. And in these movies Shankar Jaikishan would compose the music. This combination was repeated till “Mera Naam Joker” (1970). This movie flopped big time and Raj Kapoor found himself on the verge of bankruptcy.
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Aaja ke intezaar mein
Posted on: August 25, 2010
This post is written by Raja, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor of posts to this blog
When I was growing up in the early 70s, Kishore was easily the dominant male voice in Bollywood. He was everywhere and with every new movie he seemed to only deliver more hits.
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Manoj Kumar who played a patriotic Indian named “Bharat” in his movies from late 1960s onwards played a different “Non-Bharat” kind of role in “Beimaan” (1972). Beimaan means Dishonest and Manoj KUmar played the title role in this movie.
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“Hare Rama Hare Krishnaa” (1971) was a movie that was the biggest hit of the year. The movie as well as its music had taken the fans by storm at that time.
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“Anpadh” (1962) is known as a movie that contained a couple of immortal ghazals that earned Madan Mohan the sobriquet of “Ghazal King” from Lata and earned high praise from Naushad who opined that these two ghazals was equal to all the musical creations of Naushad. Coming from Lata and Naushad, that was high praise indeed.
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