Posts Tagged ‘Lata’
Aaj huaa meraa dil matwaalaa
Posted on: August 5, 2010
“Chhote Nawaab” (1961) was R D Burman’s debut movie. He was given this break by Mehmood, and the rest, as they say, was history.
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Sajnaa lagan teri sone naa de
Posted on: August 5, 2010
Recently, I posted two songs from “Duniyaa Naa Maane” (1937). Two decades later, another movie of the same name was released in 1959. Here is a song from this movie, viz. “Duniyaa Naa Maane” (1959).
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O sanam tere ho gaye ham
Posted on: August 3, 2010
Here is another popular song of its day which I thought I had already posted, but it is easy to get one’s facts wrong when there are so many nice songs to be posted. I have posted several songs of this genre as well as from this movie but this song was so far left out.
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During the golden era of Hindi film music, movies, irrespective of their grading (A, B, C or whatever) tended to have A grade music. Not just the big name music directors, even lesser music directors were just as good as any. It is just that opportunities were few and far between and any many great talents were starved of opportunities.
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Naa jiyaa laage naa
Posted on: August 2, 2010
I have posted a few songs from “Anand” (1970). In this movie, every song, not just the better known ones, are gems. And that is only to be expected seeing that Salil Chaudhary is the music director of this movie.
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I have posted several Lori (Lullaby) songs in this blog and I keep discovering new ones regularly. Here is another “new” lullaby that I was previously unaware of.
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Kahin door koyaliyaa gaaye re
Posted on: August 2, 2010
Here is another song that I first became aware of only a few hours ago.
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Pal bhar mein ye kyaa ho gayaa
Posted on: July 31, 2010
Action movies, which were regarded as B and C grade stuff till 1960s had gone on to become A grade movies, and movies with non violent stories were pushed out of centrestage. But there were takers for these movies, which were then known as social movies of family movies.
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I have listened to this song quite a few times, but I was not aware of the details about this song, apart from the obvious fact that this song was sung by Lata.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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