Posts Tagged ‘Majrooh Sultanpuri’
“Ham Sab Chor Hain” (1956) was a light hearted movie which was written and directed by I S Johar. This movie had some interesting comedy songs in it that are nice to listen to.
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Ye maanaa dil jise dhoondhe
Posted on: November 24, 2010
I have been discussing songs from “Zimbo” (1958) these days. So far I have discussed a “running around the tree” song and a stage song.
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Ye raaten ye baaten
Posted on: November 23, 2010
“Zimbo” (1958) was a movie in which a chimp called Pedro had played the second lead. And by all indications, Pedro had stolen the show in this B grade movie produced by Wadia Movietone.
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O jaalimaa chalaa kahaan
Posted on: November 21, 2010
When I was growing up, I used to hear that the story of Hindi movies mostly consisted of hero and heroine falling in love with each other and then singing songs running around trees.
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This is a category of songs that I heard in my younger days for a few times without being aware of any details and then I forgot all about it. Now, more than four decades later, I became aware of this song thanks to its farmaish. When I listened to this son again, it was like being re united with a song that had got separated from me during my childhood.
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Ruk jaao na jee aisi kyaa jaldi
Posted on: November 16, 2010
In Hindi movies, songs have traditionally played many roles. For one, songs are often the main reason why many people come to watch the movie. In one old movie, which had no songs in it, the maker had to actually explain it to the audience why that movie had no songs. And that explanation cut no ice with the public.
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I have discussed as many as six songs of “Shama Parwaana” (1954) in these pages. But there are still more songs from this movie that are yet to be covered.
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Na jaa kahin ab na jaa
Posted on: November 3, 2010
Here is a song from “Mere Hamdam Mere Dost” (1968). From the lyrics, this song could well be regarded as the title song cum theme song of the movie.
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Jaayiye aap kahaan jaayenge
Posted on: November 3, 2010
Here is a typically O P Nayyarish romantic song from 1960s. This song is from “Mere Sanam” (1965) and listening to this song, one may guess that the song is from a Shammi Kapoorish movie. And one is too much off the mark in this guesswork. This movie contains Vishwajeet (poor man’s Shammi Kapoor) as well as Asha Parekh.
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When I post songs in this blog, the easiest part is to find the song to post. I mostly stumble upon songs on youtube or dailymotion and decide to post the song. Sometimes, while posting songs based on farmaishes, I find that locating songs become the most difficult part, in case the song is an obscure song.
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