Posts Tagged ‘Lata’
These days, movie makers spend huge amounts trying to promote their movies, and still there is no guarantee that their promotions have any effect at the box office. All the songs and dances shown in these promos are often ineffective.
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Dikhaayi diye yoon
Posted on: October 29, 2008
There were some small budget art movies in late 1970s and early 1980s whose plots were so life like. In fact, they depicted the lives of people of lower class, who lived in slums, unlike the masala movies, where even lower class people are shown living in palatial homes.
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The movie “Nazraana” of 1961 had not one but two deepawali songs. One was a happy deepaawali song and the other was the sad one. The sad deepaawali song ” ek wo bhi deewali this ek ye bhi deewali hai” is the most pupular song of this movie.
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Kisi raah mein kisi modpar
Posted on: October 27, 2008
I have posted different kind of songs in this blog. There is one big category of songs which are sung atop some mode of transportation viz car, train, boat etc. I have noticed that Jeetendra, the jumping jack takes the cake when it comes to singing songs atop different modes of transportation. In addition to the usual modes of man made transportations, he has sung song atop less obvious modes of transportation too. For instance, there was one Jeetendra song sung atop an elephant. I am sure he must have sung songs riding a horse also. He may have missed singing while riding buffalo and donkey though.
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Jaidev served as assistants to leading music directors of his era for most of his career. On a few occasions that he got to compose music as an independent music director, he did a very good job. But it takes a lot more than just the ability to compose great music. Jaidev composed some fantastic music, but his name would not sell as a music director, so he repaetedly had to go back to his job as assistants to leading music directors viz S D Burman, Madan Mohan etc.
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“Mera gaon Mera Desh” was the most well known “daaku” movie before “Sholay” came about. In fact, “Sholay” is inspired in parts by “Mera Gaon Mera Desh”.
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Haan to main kya kah raha thha
Posted on: October 21, 2008
I have posted a few songs where readers of this blog commented like- “it is the first time I have heard this song”. This time the shoe is on the other foot. It is one of the readers of this blog, who sent his farmaish for this song, and I was like ” which is this song? I am not even aware of the name of the movie, let alone this song.”
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Akele hain chale aao
Posted on: October 18, 2008
“Raaz” was a Rajesh Khanna movie produced in 1967, before he had become a superstar. In those days, Rafi used to be the playback singer for male lead, and that is indeed the case in this movie.
This song “akele hain chale aao” has been sung by Rafi as well as Lata. Personally, I like the Rafi version more.
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