Posts Tagged ‘Laxmikant Pyarelal’
Koyi nahin hai phir bhi hai mujh ko
Posted on: July 4, 2011
This is a song that I have heard many a times in the past but all these days I had no clue which movie this was from. It is not that I was not familiar with the movie. Indeed I was very much aware of the movie and I had discussed as many as four songs from this movie in the blog.
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Main ik raja hoon tu ik rani hai
Posted on: July 3, 2011
1971 was a year when old order was changing, giving way to new. Many newcomers made their first appearances in this year or thereabouts. Most of them fell by the wayside, but a few of them managed to hold on and later they established themselves in the industry.
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Maine chaand dekhaa hai
Posted on: June 23, 2011
Most movies that are released come to the notice of movie going public, whether or not they actually go to the movie halls to watch these movies.
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When I began this blog nearly three years ago, I discussed only one song a day. That gave me lots of time to discuss the song. I would have a detailed discussion on the song, and then I would also have a translation of the song.
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“Parasmani” (1963) was a B grade Hindi movie of the kind that were typically passed over by the mainstream Hindi movie watchers. But this movie had such stunning music that people sat up and took notice. and the music may have brought substantially more number of people to the movie halls than what a typical B grade movie merited.
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How do I decide upon the songs to be discussed on a particular day ? It depends on several factors. On special days, I may decide to discuss special songs. Those special days are festivals, birth/death anniversaries etc. On those days, I discuss songs on a particular theme, or songs on a particular artist.
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When Hindi movie music directors wanted to create songs of a particular mood, they would explain the situation to the lyricist and he would write a song for the occassion. Then music director would compose the music and get the song recorded.
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O dilwaalon saaz e dil pe jhoom lo
Posted on: April 5, 2011
“Luteraa” (1965) is a B grade movie starring Dara Singh.Of course, Laxmikant Pyarelal, the upcoming music directors, who were signed up to compose music for this movie maintained that Dara Singh movies used to be big banner movies and calling them B grade is unfair. Power to you- Laxmikant Pyarelal. There are definitely many of us now who love these so called B grade movies. They not only had different story lines vis a vis the A grade movies, they also allowed many bit actors the opportunity to showcase their talent. It is these B grade movies that gave us Mumtaz,Sanjeev Kumar, Feroz Khan, to name a few. And it is such movies that gave longer (and often significant) roles to people like Helen, Bela Bose etc. And the music of such movies was almost always A grade.
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Baithha bairi banke sainyya
Posted on: March 16, 2011
“Wo Din Yaad Karo” is a movie that was released in 1971. Though I was very much around in 1971 , I have absolutely no recollection of this movie. Obviously this movie had flopped big time. At that time, when Rajesh Khanna was ruling the roost, who was going to watch a movie starring Sanjay Khan and Nanda? No one really.
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Suno jaanaa suno jaanaa
Posted on: March 15, 2011
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Think of Sheikh Mukhtar, the hero of so many ‘Dada’ and ‘Ustad’ movies, the proverbial angry young man of the 50s and 60s ‘B’ screen Hindi movies long before Amitabh got that tag in the 70s and 80s. Now think of the same he-man in a skirt dress and bob cut hair? And dancing the twist, and pat-a-cake, no less?
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