Posts Tagged ‘Lata’
Paas nahin aana bhool nahin jaana
Posted on: April 18, 2009
It is generally belived that commercial (mainstream) bollywood movies were make belive ones whereas “art” movies depicted reality. Not always.
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Haay re wo din kyun
Posted on: April 18, 2009
Pt Ravishankar, the renowned sitarist had worked in Bollywood in 1950s and 1960s, before he went West and made his mark in his field. In Bollywood, Ravishankar not only worked as an instrumentalist, he in fact acted as music director in a few Bollywood movies as well.
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Roothaa hai to manaa lengen
Posted on: April 17, 2009
This song “roothaa hai to manaa lenge” was quite popular on its days. I loved listening to this song without knowing much about this song except the name of the singer.
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Tera mera saath rahe
Posted on: April 17, 2009
There were a few music directors who did well for themselves without using the leading playback singers of the day in their songs.
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Raina beeti jaaye Shyaam na aaye
Posted on: April 17, 2009
“Amar Prem” was full of memorable songs that are remembered to this date.
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Mera qaraar le jaa
Posted on: April 16, 2009
I have posted two songs from “Aashiana”(1952) in ther past. One was a Lata song ( mere piya se koi jaake) and other was a Talat Mahmood song (main paagal mera manwaa paagal). Both these songs are superb memorable songs.
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I recall listening to this song called “Likha hai teri aankhon me kiska afsaana” during my younger days,but I had no idea which movie this song was from. It is only yesterday that I came to know that this song was from “Teen Deviyaan”.
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I have posted a superb Kishore Kumar song from “Manmauji”(1962) in the past that went “Zaroorat hai zaroorat hai”. It was a playful light hearted song and showed that Madan Mohan could compose this kind of songs as well.
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Rajesh Khanna and Mumtaz made a very popular pair of late 1960s and early 1970s. Their on screen chemistry was such that just about any movie and any song picturised on the duo became popular.
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Ghar aaya mera pardesi
Posted on: April 13, 2009
“Awaara” was one of the earlier movies of Raj Kapoor, and considering that it was produced nearly 60 years ago, the special effects and the grand sets of this movie are quite spectacular.
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