Posts Tagged ‘Lata’
Bollywood Mujra songs tend to be sung at a slow pace accompanied by slowly moving Mujra dancing. But here is a Mujra song on steroids. The song is quite a fast paced song, and the dance is at a break-neck speed too.
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Long ago, when I was a school kid, I was an avid radio listener. One of the radio programmes that I regularly listened to was “Vishesh Jaimala” broadcast on saturday evening (and repeated on sunday afternoon). This programme was presented by a celebrity from Bollywood, but sometimes celebrities from other fields were also invited to present the programme.
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Jaa jaa re jaa saajnaa
Posted on: July 29, 2010
In Bollywood movies, “Mujra” songs is one of a standard category of songs. Most people, including me, discuss such songs as a matter of course, without thinking much about this matter. But the songs of “Adalat” (1958), which are all “Mujra” songs force me to think about it.
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Ae dil tujhe qasam hai
Posted on: July 29, 2010
I have not posted a song featuring Madhubala for quite song time now. Here is one such song from her earlier days.
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Most of the stories in Bollywood movies are derived from the Indian traditions. And in Indian tradition, though a married woman is called “ardhaanigini” (significant half- let us say), but on the other hand, she is required to treat her husband as a superior being, her god, and her place is supposed to be at his feet.
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Jaayen to jaayen kahaan
Posted on: July 28, 2010
I was under the impression that I had posted this song long back, but as is usual with me, I was wrong. I was reminded through farmaishes for this song that I needed to post this song.
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Khanke kangnaa bindiyaa hanse
Posted on: July 27, 2010
“Dr. Vidya” (1962) is a movie which had some nice songs in it, but I have so far only posted one song from this movie.
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These days I am posting songs from the movie “Saarangaa” (1960) which is a treasure of some superb songs.
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Ye bansi kyun gaaye
Posted on: July 25, 2010
“Parakh” (1960) was a delightfully different kind of a movie. This movie is no longer remembered much, but its songs are fabulous.
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“Naagin” (1954) has so many songs that it is easy to lose track of them. And there are songs which seem like extensions of earlier songs. For instance, the song “teri yaad mein jalkar dekh liyaa” is immediately followed by “Oonchi oonchi duniyaa ki ” song.
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