Posts Tagged ‘Laxmikant Pyarelal’
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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Raat suhaani jaag rahi hai
Posted on: August 1, 2010
“Jigri Dost” (1969) is a movie chokefull of awesome songs.With time, the movie as well as its songs have gone into oblivion but listening to these songs again is always a good and pleasant experience.
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Long ago, when I was a school kid, I was an avid radio listener. One of the radio programmes that I regularly listened to was “Vishesh Jaimala” broadcast on saturday evening (and repeated on sunday afternoon). This programme was presented by a celebrity from Bollywood, but sometimes celebrities from other fields were also invited to present the programme.
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Here is a song from “Aaya Saawan Jhoom Ke” (1969). It is prima facie a boat song, but on second thoughts it is an inspirational song as well.
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Badraa chaaye..aaya saawan jhoom ke
Posted on: July 15, 2010
In western cultures, only one day in the spring season , called Valentine’s day is dedicated for love. In Indian culture , on the other hand, an entire season, viz the rainy season is the season of love. It did not begin with the advent of Bollywood movies. Even in ancient Sanskrit novels, for instance in Kalidas’ “meghdoot”, we find the rainy season described as the season when there is love in the air.
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Here is a ghazal from a 1967 movie called “Jaal”.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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