Posts Tagged ‘O P Nayyar’
Jab se pi sang nainaa laage
Posted on: November 8, 2009
Ever since Bollywood movies came into being, gossiping about the movies personalities and about their controversies have been a major activity of movie magazaines and other such publications. Often, some author would write something about some person purely from his fertile imagination and that would then become gospel for all times to come.
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Identifying an O P Nayyar tune is easy for music buffs, but even music buffs will have difficulty believing that this song was composed by O P Nayyar.
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Dekho jaadu bhare more nain
Posted on: November 6, 2009
The first movie of O P Nayyar as a music director was “Aasmaan” (1952). In this movie he had created songs that were diferent from his music of later movies. In this movie , he used the voices of Geeta Dutt, Raj Kumari and C H Atma.
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It has been pointed out to me that this song was missing from this blog. In fact there are so many nice songs that are yet to be posted, and it will take time before I am able to do justice to all these songs. One can only try and post as many of these songs as one can, and hope that time takes care of the rest.
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Ho leke pehla pehla pyaar
Posted on: November 5, 2009
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When one listens to old Bollywood songs, then one tends to form an idea about the actor on whom the song must have been picturised. If the movie has a song sung by say Rafi, then one expects it to be sung by the hero of the movie.
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This song “ghareeb jaan ke na tum haman mita dena” from “Chhoomantar” (1956) is one song from this movie that is well known to me for the last thirty years. This song is one of those songs that I had noted down in my diary of 1970s in which I used to note down the songs that I liked those days.
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Ae dil tu na dar iss jahaan se
Posted on: November 1, 2009
In 1950s, there were a few movies where Johny walker was the hero and O P Nayyar was the music director. One of these movies was in fact called “Johny Walker”.
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“Chhoomantar” (1956) was a movie in which Johny Walker was the hero. I have realised that this movie had some nice songs composed by O P Nayyar and I have in fact posted quite a few songs from this movie already.
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Tum hamse kyun darta hai
Posted on: October 22, 2009
“Ham Sab Chor Hain” (1955) is a movie of historical significance because here one can see many would be legends in action during their earlier days. For instance, it was one of the first movies as a music director for O P Nayyar. It is in movies like this that he began to groom Asha Bhonsle and gave her voice an identity.
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This song “jaane kahaan mera jigar gayaa ji” is a very well known song. One may not be aware of the movie of this song, but everyone is aware of this song.
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