Posts Tagged ‘O P Nayyar’
Tu ladki main ladkaa ladkaa
Posted on: March 7, 2011
Songs and dances play a very important role in Hindi movies. In olden days, lead actors were needed to sing and dance. Once playback singing began, actors were thankfully no longer required to sing their own songs, but they were still required to dance. That is especially true for actresses and proficiency in dancing was an important skill for them.
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Meri jaan tum pe sadke
Posted on: February 14, 2011
“Saawan Ki Ghataa” (1966) is one of the lesser known movies as far as I am concerned. This movie had Manoj Kumar and Sharmila Tagore in lead roles.
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Baahon ko zaraa lehraa de
Posted on: February 3, 2011
Here is a lesser known song from a lesser known movie. At least this movie and this song is lesser known to me, and that is the reason why no songs from this movie were posted in this blog till now.
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From the song, it is often possible to guess the music director. But not always. there have been cases where a song, sounding like O P Nayyar’s song may turn out to be Madan Mohan’s.
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“12 O’clock” (1958) is a murder mystery movie. It stars Guru Dutt, Waheeda Rehman,Rehman, Shashikala,Johny Walker etc.
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I have no idea if chana jor, moongphali etc are still sold today on street by vendors. Personally I have not seen such vendors for the past few decades, so chances are, such vendors are on the verge of extinction, if not already extinct.
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Main kho gayaa yahin kahin
Posted on: December 3, 2010
In Hindi movies, lovestruck Hero/Heroine are shown bursting into love songs at the drop of a hat, at every opportunity.
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“Ham Sab Chor Hain” (1956) was a light hearted movie which was written and directed by I S Johar. This movie had some interesting comedy songs in it that are nice to listen to.
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Jaayiye aap kahaan jaayenge
Posted on: November 3, 2010
Here is a typically O P Nayyarish romantic song from 1960s. This song is from “Mere Sanam” (1965) and listening to this song, one may guess that the song is from a Shammi Kapoorish movie. And one is too much off the mark in this guesswork. This movie contains Vishwajeet (poor man’s Shammi Kapoor) as well as Asha Parekh.
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Poochho na hamen ham unke liye
Posted on: October 30, 2010
I had vaguely heard about this movie called “Mitti Mein Sona” (1960) but I have no idea what this movie is all about.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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