Posts Tagged ‘Madan Mohan’
Meri aankhon ki neend le gayaa
Posted on: April 12, 2011
“Madhosh” (1951) is a movie starring Manhar, Usha Kiran and Meena Kumari. This movie is today known known for its music.
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Jab aane waale aate hain
Posted on: April 11, 2011
When Madan Mohan began his career as a music director with “Aankhen” (1950), he used several singers and lyricists in that movie. Interestingly, Lata was not among those several singers. He began using Lata from his subsequent movies. And he also made use of less number of singers and lyricists in these movies.
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Dhoondhe tujhko nain deewaane
Posted on: April 10, 2011
“Jab Yaad Kisi Ki Aati Hai” (1967) is a treasure trove of great songs, as I have been discovering these days.
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Jab yaad kisi ki aati hai
Posted on: April 9, 2011
When I looked at the lyrics of the song, I thought that it was the song sung by Rafi that begins with the words- “Jiyaa ho jiyaa ho jiyaa kuchh bol to”, but I was wrong, I was confusing the title song of “Jab Pyaar Kisi Se Hota Hai” (1961) with the title song of “Jab Yaad Kisi Ki Aati Hai”(1967). But then the two titles are so similar, and it is only now that I have been able to distinguish between the two titles.
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Tere bin saawan kaise beetaa
Posted on: April 5, 2011
“Jab Yaad Kisi Ki Aati Hai” (1967) is a movie starring Dharmendra and Mala Sinha. The movie apparently did not do well at the box office.
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Aaj sochaa to aansoo bhar aaye
Posted on: March 29, 2011
“Hanste Zakhm” (1973) was, not surprisingly (in hindsight) , a commercial disaster. Chetan Anand, the maker of this movie, was so enamoured of Priya Rajwansh that she was the heroine of all his movies, despite her wooden face. No doubt she tried hard, as did others, to perform to the best of their abilities, but this movie had other weak points viz confused storyline, etc.
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Betaab dil ki tamannaa yahi hai
Posted on: March 27, 2011
I have already discussed as many as three songs from “Hanste Zakhm” (1973). But this movie has more nice songs in it, of course. The request for this song was a long pending one.
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Baad muddat ke ye ghadi aayi hai
Posted on: March 14, 2011
“Jahaan Ara” (1964) was a movie based on the life of Jahaan Ara,daughter of Emperor Shahjahaan. The movie, when it was released , was a monumental failure, and the movie was withdrawn from movie halls in less than a week.
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“Nayaa Kaanoon” (1965) is a movie that had Ashok Kumar, Vyjyanti Mala, Bharat Bhushan, Om Prakash etc. This movie was a miserable failure at the box office as far as I can tell.
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Chain nahin aaye kahaan dil jaaye
Posted on: March 3, 2011
Lyrics of this song have been provided by Atif M, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie songs and a new visitor of this blog.
“Samundar” (1957) is movie that I knew nothing about till two years ago. Now I know this movie for its songs. I have already discussed two songs from this movie.
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