Posts Tagged ‘Nirupa Roy’
I love you o madam
Posted on: August 29, 2010
I can watch songs of a movie any number of times. On the other hand, I find watching the same movie a waste of my time. Perhaps I have become “mature” with time. As a sign of this “maturity”,I would rather spend three hours trying to get the lyrics of a song right than watch the movie containing this song which may take less time.:D
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Jiyaa sharmaaye nazar jhuki jaaye
Posted on: August 7, 2010
Recenly I have stumbled upon the songs of “Dulhan”(1958) and this movie has some very interesting songs in it.
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Bhar bhar aayen ankhiyaan
Posted on: June 8, 2010
“Samrat Chandragupta” (1958) is a by now forgotten movie which starred Bharat Bhushan and Nirupa Roy in lead roles. But the songs of this movie are still remembered by music lovers who like to listen to old songs.
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Aasmaan aasmaan tu kyaa jaane
Posted on: November 24, 2009
In Bollywood movies, when boy first sees a girl, he would sing a teasing song addressed to her. She would take exception, naturally, but later on, she would fall in love with him and then they would sing a duet, running round trees.
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Nirupa Roy, whom most movie goers recall as the perenielly suffering Maa of Amitabh Bachchan and Shashi Kapoor, was actually a full fledged heroine in 1950s. She mostly acted as a leading lady in mythological movies opposite actors like Pradeep Kumar, Mahipal, Bharat Bhooshan etc.
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I recall this song from my younger days. This has to be the ultimate chaayaageet song. I recall listening to this song emanating from radios late at night after 10 PM and wondering why they had to play such boring songs at that time. And now, when I stumbled upon this song again, I felt like I had discovered a great treasure.
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O pawan veg se udne waale ghode
Posted on: August 27, 2009
I had last heard this song over three decades ago. I was looking for this song for quite some time. I was finally able to locate this elusive song yesterday.
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Pyaara pyaara ye samaa
Posted on: June 22, 2009
“Laal Quila”(1960) was a C grade movie with lesser known actors and its music was by S N Tripathi, the biggest name in music direction in such movies.
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Chaahe paas ho chahe door ho
Posted on: June 21, 2009
It is a very well known song from an obscure movie called “Samrat Chandragupta” (1958). Considering that this movie was a historical/ mythological fare, it must have been a B grade movie. Kalyanji was the music director of this movie. This must have been his debut movie as a music director. Later he roped in his younger brother Anandji to form their music director partnership of Kalyanji Anandji in subsequent movies.
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