Posts Tagged ‘Naashaad’
Chal chal chameli baag mein
Posted on: September 8, 2011
I am aware of a movie called “Dada” (1978). Later I found out that another movie of the same name was released in 1966 too. Both these movies incidentally had the same music director, viz Usha Khanna.
Now I find that there was another movie of the same name, which was released in 1949.
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Zindagi hai ya koi toofaan hai
Posted on: August 7, 2011
“Zindagi Ya Toofaan” (1958) is a movie that had Pradeep Kumar,Nutan,Johny Walker and Minu Mumtaz in it. The movie as well as its songs are not all that well known these days. But that has not stopped me from discussing a couple of songs from this movie.
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Chhanke meri paayal
Posted on: March 15, 2011
Mainstream A grade movie makers confined themselves to movies on mainstream subjects- viz boy falling into love with girl and singing songs routine. The tales from mythology, Folk tales, arabian nights tales etc , which were such rich sources for stories were regarded as commercially risky propositions and as such were not ventured into. It was left to small budget small time B grade movie makers to make movies on these subjects.
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Tera muskuraanaa banaa ik fasaanaa
Posted on: March 6, 2011
Recently reader Sudhir likened my knack of discovering musical gems to going into a coal mine and stumbling upon diamonds. It is a good comparison, and I in fact feel that the likelihood of coming up with musical diamonds in the metaphorical musical coal mine is far more, seeing how many of them I discover on a regular basis. I in fact liken it to walking on a beach, and coming across these gems lying undiscovered.
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Hamaaraa kyaa hai ham tadpen
Posted on: September 17, 2010
There was a movie called “Zindagi Ya Toofaan” (1958), not to be confused with “Zindagi Aur Toofaan” (1975). This movie “Zindagi Ya Toofaan” (1957) had Pradeep Kumar and Nutan in lead roles.
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Ek dil do hain talabgaar
Posted on: September 17, 2010
Here is a rare and special song from a rare movie called “Darwaazaa” (1954).
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Zulfon ki sunahri chhaaon tale
Posted on: June 19, 2010
In old Bollywood movies, actors were often seen singing while playing a grand piano. Songs like that to me were unrealistic, because firstly, it is not possible to play that huge instument while singing a song at the same time. And secondly, expecting the lead actors to possess a huge grand piano, as well as a huge mansion to accomodate the said piano was unrealistic to my mind.
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