Posts Tagged ‘Mukesh’
Dheere dheere bol koi sun naa le
Posted on: July 18, 2009
Here is a song from “Gora aur Kaala” (1972). It was a popular song during its time.
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Aa ab laut chalen
Posted on: July 18, 2009
I have seen the movie “Jis Desh me Ganga bahti hai”(1960) but I was not paying attention and as such I do not remember much about this movie. So I had no information about the background of this song from this movie. Now I am told that this movie was about the dacoits of Chambal valley laying their arms and joining the mainstream of society. This song in fact exhorts them to come back to the society.
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Sataa le ae jahaan
Posted on: July 17, 2009
Mukesh singing for Rajendra Kumar is not as common as Rafi singing for him. However, “Sasural” was one movie where Mukesh had given playback for Rajendra Kumar.
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Rajendra Kumar, known for copying Dilip Kumar’s mannerisms, was known as Jubilee Kumar, because almost all his movies tended to be jubilee hits. Those days,movies completing 25 weeks were called silver jubilee hits and movies completing 50 weeks were called golden jubilee hits. Almost every Rajendra Kumar movie was a jubilee hit.
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S D Burman was a very senior music director. He started giving music in Bollywood movies as early as 1940s itself.
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Kisi Nargisi Nazar Ko Dil Denge Ham
Posted on: July 9, 2009
Mukesh in 1950s and 1960s was usually associated with sad songs accompanied by sombre music, which were usually sung on screen by Raj Kapoor.
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Mahtaab teraa chehraa
Posted on: July 8, 2009
Mukesh is often regarded as an expert in singing sad songs. But he could bring out other emotions just as expertly in his singing.
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Dekhti hi raho aaj darpan na tum
Posted on: July 7, 2009
“Nai Umar Ki Nai Fasal”(1965) had Rajeev (who ?) and Tanuja in lead roles. This movie is well known for its epic sad song “caravan guzar gaya gubaar dekhte rahe”.
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Door bahut aabaadi se
Posted on: July 5, 2009
“Jhoola” (1962) was a movie about which I had little idea. I thought that movies with this kind of title must be a movie of early 1950s when we had movies of similar sounding titles ( “Jhamela”, “Jhaanjhar” etc).
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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