Posts Tagged ‘Madan Mohan’
This song is a rather uncharacteristic song on many counts, when viewed in hindsight.
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Madan Mohan had the misfortune of composing songs for movies that often failed at the box office.
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Raahi thha main aawaara
Posted on: March 20, 2009
“Sahib Bahadur” (1977) was one of the forgettable movies of Dev Anand. Incidentally, it was a remake of another Dev Anand movie called “Afsar” (1950) which was presumably less forgettable.
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Dev Anand was well past his sell by date as a hero in 1970s, but Dev Saab did not realise that and continued to act in one flop movie after another. In the process, many nice songs picturised on him suffered the same fate as the movie.
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Simti si sharmaayi si
Posted on: March 17, 2009
Just listen to this Kishore Kumar song ! I have heard this song quite a few times, and all these days I thought that this song was written by Anand Bakshi and composed by R D Burman. But no, the lyricist is Kaifi Azmi and this song is composed by Madan Mohan.
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Jis din se maine tumko dekha hai
Posted on: March 13, 2009
This is one song that I just loved listening to as a kid. It is a wonderful song sung by Rafi.
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Khelo na mere dil se
Posted on: March 13, 2009
We all are aware that Madan Mohan movies tended to have songs that are now regarded as classics. But the movie makers of those movies were not aware of this fact at that time.
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Badli se nikla hai chaand
Posted on: March 9, 2009
“Sanjog” (1961) was one movie that had some very nice songs which are remembered to this day. And that comes as no surprise when one realises that the music director of this movie was Madan Mohan.
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Bach gaye ham dono
Posted on: February 26, 2009
This song is from “Chacha Zindabad” (1959). One may think it is O P Nayyar’s music, but it turns out to be Madan Mohan’s music. And for a change, this song is quite a light hearted comedy song. Certainly not something with which Madan Mohan is associated now a days.
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Bainya na dharo balma
Posted on: February 21, 2009
“Dastak” was far ahead of its time in 1970 when it was released. Forget 1970, the movie is ahead of its time even if it was released in 2009.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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