Posts Tagged ‘Majrooh Sultanpuri’
Kaali palak teri gori
Posted on: September 30, 2010
People these days lament about the degradation in the quality of Hindi movie music today. And as example of exemplary music, the cite the eras of 1950s to 1970s. But I tell you, when I was growing up in that era,then I felt exactly the same way- that 1970s had seen a degradation in the quality of songs vis a vis songs of late 1960s.
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“Sujata” (1959) had some very nice songs in it that covered various stages of lives, different kinds of feelings etc.
For instance, this movie has one of most well known luallabies of all time, viz. Nanhi kali sone chali hawa dheere aana. Picturisation of this lullaby shows Sulochana singing this lullaby to babies who grow up to become Shashikala and Nutan respectively.
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In Hindi movies, love songs are arguably the most frequent form of songs that one comes across.Even among love songs there are so many varieties. “Missing the beloved” is one of these varieties. This opens up the opportunity for creating a song sung by the person missing the beloved. Job of the lyricists to come up with lyrics for such situations must be quite a challenge, seeing that such situations arise in every movie. To the credit of the lyricists of those days, they invariably managed to come up with original songs/ concepts to describe the feelings of the actors.
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Kyaa ho jo din rangeelaa ho
Posted on: September 26, 2010
“Nau Do Gyaarah” (1957) is a suspense movie starring Dev Anand, Kalpana Kartik etc and the movie is directed by Vijay Anand.
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By 1980s, the lyrics of Hindi movie songs had become much more functional and basic. In many cases, the songs of that era virtually dispensed with the need of any meaningful lyrics and managed with gibberish passing for lyrics.
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Chal mere dil lehraa ke chal
Posted on: September 25, 2010
While looking for songs, or rather while stumbling upon songs, I often realise how little I know about old movies and their songs.
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Jaani tum to dole dagaa dai ke
Posted on: September 25, 2010
I am barely aware of this movie called “Dr Vidya” (1962) and I have become aware of the songs of this movie thanks to the farmaishes of songs for this movie.
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“Miss Coca Cola” (1955) is one of those few movies in which real life spouses Shammi Kapoor and Geeta Bali had acted together. And this is one movie whose prints are apparently all lost.
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Songs play a very important part in the success of Hindi movies. If one leaves out songs, then on many occasions, not much of interest is left in the movie
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Hoon abhi main jawaan ae dil
Posted on: September 21, 2010
I thought that a woman getting drunk and singing a drunkard song in an Indian movie began only in 1960s, but I was wrong. This began in 1950s itself.
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