Posts Tagged ‘Laxmikant Pyarelal’
Meri qismat mein tu nahin shaayad
Posted on: August 25, 2010
The initial movies of Raj Kapoor were made with Raj Kapoor as hero and Nargis/Vyjyanti Mala/Padmini etc as leading lady. And in these movies Shankar Jaikishan would compose the music. This combination was repeated till “Mera Naam Joker” (1970). This movie flopped big time and Raj Kapoor found himself on the verge of bankruptcy.
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Main jatt yamla paglaa deewaanaa
Posted on: August 25, 2010
In the picturisation of this song, Dharmendra has just realised that Hema Malini is in love with him. Having made this discovery, Dharmendra jumps up and down all over the place, singing this joyous song, and Hema Malini is naturally embarrased at this public display of Dharmendra’s love for her.
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Bade bewafaa hain ye husn waale
Posted on: August 23, 2010
Here is an archtypical piano song from an archtypically early 1970s movie called “Roop Tera Mastana” which had Jeetendra, Mumtaz, Pran and Aruna Irani in lead roles.
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Ruby o Ruby jaane mehboobi
Posted on: August 14, 2010
This writeup was originally by me. Now Sudhir’s writeup and translation of this song have also been added
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Atul’ write up
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When I was growing up as a pre teen kid in late 1960s and early 1970s, I heard many songs that left indelible imprints on my psyche. There are a few such songs which I never heard again for several decades. Thanks to this blog, which makes me look for songs and which familiarises me with songs sent as farmaishes by my readers, I have been rediscovering many of these forgotten gems.
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Kabhi to miloge jeewan saathi
Posted on: August 11, 2010
I have posted several nice songs from “Sati Savitri” (1964) in this song. I was not aware that this movie had so many wonderful songs in it.
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Tum gagan ke chandrmaa ho
Posted on: August 10, 2010
While posting a song of “Sati Savitri” (1964) I had remarked that there are certain value system (Sanskaar) that are difficult for westerners to comprehend. In the Indian value system, woman may be described as ardhaangini (better half) of her husband, but paradoxically, she is required to treat her husband as her God and a superior being, and she is required to regard herself an inferior being. Not very demcratic, but then these ancient scriptures were written in an entirely different era.
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Indian culture has some values which may sound strange to westerners.
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“Mr X in Bombay” (1964) is a treasure of wonderful songs. I have already posted 5 songs from it.
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Ruk jaa roktaa hai ye deewaanaa
Posted on: August 5, 2010
“Mr X in Bombay” (1964) was the first movie where Laxmikant Pyarelal and Kishore Kumar worked together for the first time, and the result was some outstanding music. The fact that Kishore Kumar acted in the movie certainly helped.
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Huyi shaam unkaa khayaal aa gayaa
Posted on: August 3, 2010
“Mere Hamdam Mere Dost”(1968) was a movie starring Dharmendra and Sharmila Tagore. This movie had some nice songs in it.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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