Posts Tagged ‘Majrooh Sultanpuri’
Chal ri sajni ab kya soche
Posted on: November 24, 2008
I have posted two songs from “Bambai ka Babu” in this blog, and readers will agree that both of them were great songs. But as far as Binaca geetmala of 1960 was concerned, the most popular song from this movie was yet another song viz ” Chal ri sajni ab kya soche”.
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Deewaana mastaana hua dil
Posted on: November 23, 2008
“Bambai ka Babu” was a movie starring Dev Anand and a young Suchitra Sen.
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Aanchal mein saja lena kaliyaan
Posted on: November 22, 2008
While watching the picturisation of Bollywood songs, I have observed a few things which we are used to, but which are actually funny, if you think about it.
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Aankhon se jo utri hai dil mein
Posted on: November 21, 2008
O P Nayyar had taken the Bollywood music world by storm in 1950s.He dominated the Bollywood music scene in the late 1950s the way R D Burman would later dominate in 1970s. If Kishore Kumar was the singer who helped the domination of R D Burman in 1970s, then it was Asha Bhonsle who played a similar role in O P Nayyar’s dominance.
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This song was one of the earliest songs that left an indelible mark in my tender mind. I could identify the voice of Rafi even those days, but the concept of lyricists and music directors was not yet known to me at that time.
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Kaun kisi ko baandh saka hai
Posted on: November 20, 2008
In Bollywood movies, jail inmates are often shown as comedians, and there are a few comedy songs in Bollywood movies sung by the jailbirds, viz in “Vishwanath”.
“Kaaliya” too has a jail song, but here it is a philosophical song. This song is not sung by the hero ( Amitabh) or any other main character of the movie.
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Laal laal gaal
Posted on: November 18, 2008
1950s saw many changes in Bollywood movie songs. Many music directors were introducing folk music into Bollywood music with great success. Then there were other music directors who introduced western music popular at that time.
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This song is a very popular song from my childhood. As happened with me most of the time, I would have no clue about such songs except the name of the singer. And with time I would forget all about such songs as they went out of circulation.
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