Posts Tagged ‘Neeraj’
“Pehchaan” (1970) is a movie that was produced and directed by Sohanlal Kanwar. The movie had Manoj Kumar, Babita, Balraj Sahni,Sunder, Sailesh Kumar, Chand Usmani, Tiwari,Sulochana, Asit Sen, Mohan Choti, Daisy Irani, Lata Bose, Madhui Apte, C. S. Dubey etc in it.
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Kal ki na karo baat
Posted on: April 4, 2011
Seeing that India has won the cricket world cup 2011, I, like millions of my countryman, am walking on cloud nine at the moment. The hangover will take a while to go away. The fact that the match was played on saturday and the next day was sunday certainly helped a lot. Some hangover is still there even today on monday.
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During the golden era of Hindi movie music (circa 1950-1980), things were quite simple and rudimentary in most fields. Hindi movie songs tended to become popular only if the movie did better, and the movies did better only if they followed certain set formulaes. Movies that tended to deviate from the standard formulae tended to fail and as a result, the songs of such movies too would suffer.
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“Sharmilee” (1971) was one of those movies that I lived a lot. This movie and its songs came about at a time when Kishore Kumar and R D Burman had taken the Hindi movie music world by storm. I also happened to be at an impressionable age (8-12 year age group) which meant that I was highly impressed and influenced by the music of that time. Forget me, even the so called grown ups turned out to be just as impressionable as me, as far as liking Kishore Kumar-R D Burman brand of music was concerned.
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Aap yahaan aaye kis liye
Posted on: September 15, 2010
This movie was the vehicle to launch the career of Randhir Kapoor. And Raj Kapoor pulled all stops to ensure that this movie was the perfect launching pad for his first born.
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Kaise kahen ham
Posted on: September 6, 2010
This post is written by Raja, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor of posts to this blog
My memories of Sharmilee (1971) are associated with my seeing this movie on my first-ever visit to Mumbai (then Bombay) in 1972. I have described some of my experiences of that visit on the post relating to the song “khilte hain gul yahaan”.
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This post is written by Raja, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor of posts to this blog
The summer of 1972 was my very first trip to Mumbai (then Bombay). It was summer vacation and my parents and all of us had gone to spend the vacation in Bombay.
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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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“Prem Pujaari” (1970) seemingly had songs for all occasions. Here is a lovely heartwarming romamtic song from this movie.
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Sooni sooni saans ke sitaar par
Posted on: January 11, 2010
It was pointed out recently to me that I had not posted any songs from “Laal Patthar” (1971). I too am surprised because I was under the impression that I had posted at least one song fom this movie.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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