Posts Tagged ‘Majrooh Sultanpuri’
The most credit for a Bollywood movie song goes ( or should go) to the music director. It is he who gets the lyricist to write the song, decides on the orchestra and tells the singer (s) how to sing the song.
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Kahin karti hogi wo mera intezaar
Posted on: May 28, 2009
What a gem of a song ! And curiously, this details of this song are not all that well known. Or at least that was the case with me.
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Aa jaayen jaane waalen
Posted on: May 28, 2009
“Chandni Chowk” (1954) is a movie that is forgotten by now. But appears like this movie was made in altogether different era.
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Ae dil kahaan teri manzil
Posted on: May 23, 2009
Till sometime back, I was not even aware of this movie called “Maaya” (1961). Now I have become aware of this movie because of its remarkable songs. Like the movie, its songs were unknown to me too, but not any more.
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O Mr Banjo ishaara to samjho
Posted on: May 23, 2009
“Ham Sab Chor Hain” (1956) was a light hearted movie which was written and directed by I S Johar, who acted in this movie too.
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Dilip Kumar has mostly sung in the voice of Rafi, Talat Mahmood and Mukesh. But there is one movie where he sings in the voice of Kishore kumar as well. This movie is “Sagina”(1974) which came at the fag end of Dilip Kumar’s career as hero.
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gori odh ke malmal nikli
Posted on: May 21, 2009
Here is a nice dance song from “Kaali Topi Laal Roomaal” (1959). This movie in fact was full of nice songs, mostly based on folk music.
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Zameen bhi wahi hai wahi aasmaan
Posted on: May 21, 2009
This song from “Chandni Chowk” (1954) plays while the movie opens and the opening credits roll on the screen.
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In Bollywood movies, heroines take offers of help by the hero as signs of making passes on her, and she would feel righteously indignant about it. She would firmly refuse offers by the hero to help her.
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There were quite a few well known songs in “Bambai ka Babu” (1960) and I have posted several songs from this movie already.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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