Posts Tagged ‘Mehmood’
Though western music was introduced in Bollywood music as early as in 1940s itself, such music remained peripheral for nearly two decades or so. It was only in the second half of 1960s that western music began to take centrestage in Bollywood movie music.
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“Pyaar Kiye Jaa” (1966) was a runaway hit. Though Shashi Kapoor was the hero of this movie, it had many other entertainers in it, viz Kishore Kumar, Mehmood, Mumtaz ( then an upcoming actress) etc.
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“Shabnam” (1964) was a movie where Mehmood was in lead role opposite Vyjyanti Mala. I have no idea how the movie fared, but the songs of this movie were outstanding, as I have discovered.
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Kishore Kumar and R D Burman absolutely lorded over Bollywood music scene in late 1960s and early 1970s. Most of their creations , irrespective of the quality of the movie, were outstanding.
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I have mentioned it in the past that “NeelKamal” (1968) was a movie that gave us some iconic songs.
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Raat ka samaa jhoome chandrmaa
Posted on: July 15, 2009
I have posted a few songs from “Ziddi” (1964) already. This was a Shammi Kapoor type movie ( Joy Mukherji and Asha Parekh starred in it). One major difference in this movie from other Shammi Kapoor type movie was that the music director was S D Burman in this movie.
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Jaago sone waalon suno meri kahaani
Posted on: July 12, 2009
I have listened to this song “jaago sone waalon” many a times. I liked this song though I had no idea which movie this song was from.
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Here is a movie about which I had little idea. This movie “Miyaan Biwi Razi” (1960) starred Mehmood and Bharati. Neither the movie nor its music is familiar to me, but when I listened to this song from this movie today, I liked it.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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