Posts Tagged ‘O P Nayyar’
“Shrimaanji” (1968) is a movie whose songs were too elusive to locate for me all these days. Finally they seem to have become available and I was able to post one song from this movie.
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I was on the lookout for this song for quite some time, ever since Raja gave me the farmaish of this song from “Shrimaanji”. In all this time, I managed to find (and post) several songs from “Shrimatiji”, but I drew a blank as far as locating songs of “Shrimaanji” was concerned.
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Music plays a very important part in Bollywood movies. In many movies of the past, it is the music that helped these movies and their actors get popular with the public. That way, most of the popular actors of those days owe much of their popularity to the music of the movies they acted in.
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“Baaz” (1953) is a movie that brought Guru Dutt and O P Nayyar together for the first time. This movie has Guru Dutt as well as O P Nayyar in rather unfamilar roles. Guru Dutt is shown riding a horse (that makes this song a “horse” song) and O P Nayyar composes a music that is so un O P Nayyarish (stated with the benefit of hind sight, of course).
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When Kishore Kumar is in the frame, you expect him to take the centre stage and dominate the singing. Here is this song where Kishore Kumar for a change is at the receiving end of a song.
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Yaar baadshah yaar dilrubaa
Posted on: April 12, 2010
There are at least two movies called CID that I am aware of. One is CID (1956) and another is CID 909 (1967).
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Zulf ke phande phans gayi jaan
Posted on: April 1, 2010
It may sound strange but it is true. Some of the finest music of O P Nayyar has been composed for movies where Johny Walker was the hero. I have posted a few such songs already and I keep stumbling upon more such songs regularly.
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Nadi ka kinaaraa ho
Posted on: March 31, 2010
When it comes to dancing ladies of Bollywood movies, Helen is known to us all, but there were others as well. Bela Bose was one of her contemporaries and much of her dancing was in 1960s.
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“Mr Qartoon MA” (1958) is a movie which has been forgotten with time. Here is a song from this movie.
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In 1950s, we had this trend where movies with the prefix “Naya” added to old movie titles were used to create new movies. “Naya Andaaz”(1956) was one such movie. This movie had Johny Walker, Kishore Kumar and Kumkum in lead roles.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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