Posts Tagged ‘Lata’
“Mehboob ki Mehandi” was a Rajesh Khanna movie of 1971. It had lyrics by Anand Bakshi and music by Laxmikant Pyarelal. So one can guess that this movie must have some lilting music. And indeed that is how it was.
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Man ki been matwaari baaje
Posted on: February 11, 2009
When I watched this song, the first thing that occured to me was that this scene, if not the entire movie, was definitely inspired from the Sanskrit novel called “Rajtarangini” written by the famous Sanskrit scholar Bilhan. In that story, a music tutor is employed to teach music to the princess of a state. Afraid that the two may feel attracted to each other if they come face to face, the two are separated from each other by a curtain. The princess is told that the music tutor is ugly and the music totor is told that the princess is blind.
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Mere dil mein hai ik baat
Posted on: February 11, 2009
Few people have heard of this movie called “Post Ofice Box 999”.It had Sunil Dutt and Shakila in lead roles.
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Milo na tum to ham ghabraayen
Posted on: February 11, 2009
Like Rafi-Shammi Kapoor songs and Mukesh-Raj Kapoor songs,there used to be another great combination in the past, and that was Lata-Madan Mohan songs. These two have created many wonderful songs during their association of about 24 years.
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Rangeela re
Posted on: February 10, 2009
I have posted songs of many categories in this blog. One of these categories is called drunkard songs. This song is a drunkard song, but with a difference. Here , it is a lady that gets drunk and then she sings this song. It is nice to see that women’s lib had taken place in drunkard songs as early as 1967.
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Here is a very cute song from a movie called “Harishchandra Taramati” (1963).
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Main khushnaseeb hoon
Posted on: February 10, 2009
I had once posted a song in which Ajit acted as the hero and sang a duet too.
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Aa laut ke aaja mere meet
Posted on: February 10, 2009
“Rani Roopmati” was a C grade movie, and songs from such movies typically failed to catch the ears of the mainstream listeners. But there were some exceptions.
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Gir gaya jhumka girne do
Posted on: February 9, 2009
In India, most couples have arranged marriages, but you could not realise that by watching Bollywood movies, where every hero and his sidekick seemed to fall in love and sing romantic songs. To the credit of Bollywood actors, a few on screen lovers of Bollywood movies actually tied the knots too. Examples being Amitabh-Jaya, Rishi Kapoor-Neetu Singh etc.
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Kaho ji tum kya kya khareedoge
Posted on: February 9, 2009
This song from “Sadhana” (1958 ) did not have Sadhana in it, just as “Kalpana” (1960) did not have Kalpana in that movie. “Sadhana” had Vyjyanti Mala and Sunil Dutt in lead roles.
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