Posts Tagged ‘Lata’
“Bahaaron ki Manzil” was a movie starring Dharmendra, Meena Kumari and Rehman.
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Mahtaab teraa chehraa
Posted on: July 8, 2009
Mukesh is often regarded as an expert in singing sad songs. But he could bring out other emotions just as expertly in his singing.
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Mera nanha kanhaiyya ghar aaya
Posted on: July 8, 2009
I have posted a few “lullaby” songs in this blog, where the mother sings lullabies to her young one. But that is not the only kind of songs that Bollywood mothers sing to their children.
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Saari saari raat teri yaad sataaye
Posted on: July 7, 2009
I thought I had this song in my blog. But when I checked up, I realised that I had yet to post this song.
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This song was almost edited out of the movie by its producer Vijay Bhatt who thought that this song, showing Hindu festival of Janmashtami had no place in this movie, but he was convinced by others that Akbar’s wife Jodhabai was a Hindu and so showing this song made sense.
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Chhun chhun chhun baaje paayal
Posted on: July 6, 2009
“Ham Log” reminds most people of the first mega serial on Indian TV that was telecast on state run Doordarshan in mid 1980s. But there was a movie of this name as way back as 1951.
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Most movies in which Madan Mohan gave music are obscure movies. But the music in all those movies, irrespective of the quality of such movies (indifferent most of the time) has always been top quality.
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Intazaar aur abhi aur abhi aur abhi
Posted on: July 5, 2009
Meena Kumari debuted in early 1950 and played happy roles most of the time. Many of these movies are lovely family entertainers where she would typically act with Kishore Kumar, Sunil Dutt, Daisy Irani etc.
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Door bahut aabaadi se
Posted on: July 5, 2009
“Jhoola” (1962) was a movie about which I had little idea. I thought that movies with this kind of title must be a movie of early 1950s when we had movies of similar sounding titles ( “Jhamela”, “Jhaanjhar” etc).
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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