Posts Tagged ‘Manna Dey’
Dekhi anaadi teri preet
Posted on: August 27, 2010
“Biraadari” (1966) was a llow budget B grade movie with a casr consisting mainly of unknown actors. Little wonder then that the movie did not do anything spectacular at the box office.
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I was not aware that Raj Kapoor and Meena Kumari worked together and that too at a time when he was known to act mostly opposite Nargis.
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Taaqat watan ki hamse hai
Posted on: August 15, 2010
Today is 15th August 2010. It was on this day that India got her independence 63 years ago. On this day, all public places in India have national flags hoisted there by the heads of the organisations.
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I had posted as many as four songs from “Madhumati” (1958) in the past, but I was repeatedly being reminded by a few regulars of this blog that several songs of “Madhumati” were yet to be posted. And they were right of course.
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Tum gagan ke chandrmaa ho
Posted on: August 10, 2010
While posting a song of “Sati Savitri” (1964) I had remarked that there are certain value system (Sanskaar) that are difficult for westerners to comprehend. In the Indian value system, woman may be described as ardhaangini (better half) of her husband, but paradoxically, she is required to treat her husband as her God and a superior being, and she is required to regard herself an inferior being. Not very demcratic, but then these ancient scriptures were written in an entirely different era.
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Few people know that the Sitar maestro Pt Ravi Shankar had initially tried his hands as a music director in Hindi movies before he found his true calling as a Sitar exponent. He in fact gave music in a few Hindi movies in his early days.
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This post is written by Raja, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie songs and a regular visitor of this blog
There is rarely an excuse required in Hindi movies for a song. Birthday or wedding celebration parties (with the ubiquitous piano), the “tribal” dance scenes, club dances, hero-heroine scenes out in beautiful natural surroundings, the pining scenes and the mujra scenes – these are all well-established occasions waiting for a song to happen.
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Bheegi chaandni chhaayi bekhudi
Posted on: July 22, 2010
In my bid to clear the backlog of my old farmaishes, here is one song whose farmaish was given more than one year back. This song is from “Suhaagan” (1964). This song is a duet sung by Lata and Manna Dey. Madan Mohan is the music director. Madan Mohan teamed up with Raja Mehdi Ali Khan and Rajinder Krishan in most of his movies and on the other hand he rarely worked with the leading names (Shailendra, Majrooh Sultanpuri, Sahir Ludhianvi and Hasrat Jaipuri). But in this movie, he worked with Hasrat Jaipuri. And what superb lyrics Hasrat Jaipuri came up with in this movie !
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Ek samay par do barsaaten
Posted on: July 5, 2010
In Bollywood movies, most songs are lip synced on screen by actors. But there are some songs that are played on the background and the actors on the screen are not required to lip sync these songs. I have posted quite a few songs of this nature. All these days, I failed to realise that I should categorise these songs as background songs.
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In this blog, I post songs that I categorise into different categories. Among them, there is one artificial category of songs (not yet formalised). These are songs that were very popular in its days during my formative years. I enjoyed these songs a lot without having any clues about their details. After that these songs would be forgotten with time. After a passage of three decades or more, I would stumble upon them one again. And this time, I would get to know these songs better. As far as I and several followers of this blog in my age group are concerned, these songs were immortal songs. As least they will remain so in our psyche.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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