Posts Tagged ‘Lata’
Mushkil hai jeena bedardon
Posted on: April 10, 2009
I had listened to the two “Sahab Bahadur” songs sung by Kishore Kumar in the past and I have already posted them in this blog.
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Dam bhar jo udhar munh phere
Posted on: April 10, 2009
It is a boat song, chaayageet song, sensuous song, romantic song, all rolled into one.
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Kismat mein khushi ka naaam nahin
Posted on: April 10, 2009
Sajjad Hussain, arguably the most original and most creative music director of an era brimming with great music directors, was also a person who was not tactful enough to deal with musically illiterate producers and tended to call a spade a shovel. It was this outspokenness that ensured that he got much less number of assignments than his talent merited.
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“Kartavya” (1978) was a Dharmendra-Rekha movie which for some reason has been forgotten, so much so that I have not been able to get my hands on its VCD/DVD despite trying for several weeks.
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Dil ko laakh sambhaala ji
Posted on: April 9, 2009
It is a very well known song. And you guessed it, I was not aware of its details except the name of the singer.
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Pyaar mein milna sanam
Posted on: April 9, 2009
One should not compare songs and their picturisations, but sometimes movie makers force it on audiences by their blatant inspirations.
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Chale bhi aao kasam tumhen
Posted on: April 9, 2009
Music director Ravi, who made his debut as an independent music director in 1955, began to churn out nice music immediately. Here is a nice song from a 1957 movie called “Ek Saal”.
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The Bollywood movie “It happened one night” was quite an “inspiring” movie. It inspired many Bollywood movies. One such movie was “Chori Chori”.
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Gore gore o baanke chhore
Posted on: April 8, 2009
C Ramchandra, who brought Western music to Bollywood before anyone else has created some wonderful songs which remain popular with modern remix generation as well. Many of his songs created in 1940s and 1950s have been found worthy of remixing/ cover versioning, etc. But none of such musical cut pasting has ever come anywhere close to the original.
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Bach ke jaane na doongi dildaar
Posted on: April 7, 2009
Shammi Kapoor’s era lasted for the entire 1960s and “Prince” could well be called his last successful movie. His two subsequent movies as a hero (“Pagla Kahin Ka” and “Jawaan Mohabbat” did not do well).
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