Posts Tagged ‘Lyricist-MD’
Gunja re…Chandan Chandan
Posted on: March 10, 2010
I have posted two songs from “Nadiya Ke Paar” (1982). This movie is full of wonderful heart warming songs in it. With time, I feel that these songs have become even sweeter to listen to.
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When you need to look for iconic songs on any topic, you should look for songs composed by Ravi. I have noticed that majority of iconic Bollywood songs, whatever be their topics, have been composed by Ravi.
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On the occasion of India’s 63rd independence day viz 15th August, 2009, I greet all Indian readers of this blog, whereever they are, a very warm happy independence day. I too will be busy attending one flag hoisting and then actually hoisting the flag myself in another function.
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Le de sainya odhni Panjaabi
Posted on: June 11, 2009
The farmaish for this song was a long pending farmaish from October 2008, and I was unable to comply with it because the video of this song was not available all these days. The fact that I had myself never herad this song meant that I too was quite eager to listen to this song.
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“Dulhan wahi jo piya man bhaaye” was not a mainstream movie. It was a movie made by Rajshree productions and as was their wont, there were no big names in this movie.
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Door hai kinaara
Posted on: April 18, 2009
When it comes to “maajhi” songs, one thinks of S D Burman.Here is an outstanding Majhi song, but it is by another music director who in fact was making his debut as a music director in this movie.
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Tera mera saath rahe
Posted on: April 17, 2009
There were a few music directors who did well for themselves without using the leading playback singers of the day in their songs.
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Sajna hai mujhe sajna ke liye
Posted on: April 15, 2009
“Saudagar” (1973) was the debut movie for Ravindra Jain as a music director. He wrote the lyrics too. This was a Rajshree productions movie where they were known to sign up newcomers. And for this movie they had signed by Amitabh Bachchan ! It is strange to see Amitabh Bachchan playing a villager ( far cry from his action roles) wearing striped lungi throughout the movie.
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Rajshri productions had hit upon a sureshot formula for success in the decade of 1970s. They would make movies for a small target audience who wanted to watch love stories full of nice songs and heartwarming plots. This was a winning formula because love stories by definition required new faces ( and as such Rajshri Productions saved money on hiring big name actors). In these movies, story and music were the real stars and Rajshri productions had built up a small loyal audience for their movies.
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I had mentioned a little known fact in some earlier posts that Madan Mohan had once given music for an Amitabh Bachchan movie. Here is another little known fact- Amitabh Bachchan has also worked in a Rajshri productions movie. And this Rajshri production movie was very much a small budget deglamourised affair as was the case for all Rajshri productions movies of those days.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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