Posts Tagged ‘Mukesh’
Dekho mausam kya bahaar aayi
Posted on: May 3, 2009
Perceptions about singers, lyricists and music directors can often be so misleading. For example, if Mukesh and Lata sing a duet written by Majrooh and composed by Chitragupta, then what does one expect ? A mythological song ? Or perhaps a sad song ? Or a song based on rural characters ?
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I had forgotten all about this song ! It was a song that was very popular during its time. I as a kid liked to listen to this song.
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Aawaaraa hoon
Posted on: May 2, 2009
Though Raj Kapoor’s career was launched with “Andaaz” and “Barsaat”,”Aawaara” was the movie that firmly established his image by which he is known even today.
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Do kadam tum bhi chalo
Posted on: May 1, 2009
Here is a song that can be called an iconic song. I have been listening to this song for decades and liking it too, but all this while I was totally in the dark about the creators of this song.
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Tum bin jeewan kaise beetaa
Posted on: April 30, 2009
It is a song from “Anita” (1967) which had Manoj Kumar and Sadhana in lead roles.
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Ham aaj kahin dil kho baithe
Posted on: April 30, 2009
I wonder just how many piano songs are there in “Andaaz” (1949). I have posted more than half a dozen such songs already from this movie.
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Toote naa dil toote naa
Posted on: April 25, 2009
“Andaaz” (1949) has over a dozen songs. Mukesh is the male playback singer who sings for Dilip Kumar in this movie. Almost all these songs are apparently piano songs.
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Jhoom jhoom ke naacho aaj
Posted on: April 24, 2009
I had posted a piano song from “Andaaz” (1949) yesterday. Here is another piano song from the same movie.
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Tu kahe agar
Posted on: April 23, 2009
It has been pointed out to me that I have posted only one song from “Andaz”(1949) whereas this movie was one of the biggest musical blockbusters of all time and a milestone in Bollywood history, musically as well as otherwise.
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“Chhaliya”(1960) was a Raj Kapoor movie and it had Mukesh singing for him as usual. But its music team was not Shailendra and Shankar Jaikishan. Rather, Qamar Jalalabadi had written the songs and Kalyanji Anandji, then in their early years as music directors had got this big break to compose music in this movie. This movie incidentally was the debut movie for director Manmohan Desai as well.
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