Posts Tagged ‘O P Nayyar’
Tu auron ki kyon ho gayi
Posted on: May 24, 2009
Joy Mukherji, Debu Mukherji and Somu Mukherji were brothers and they were from a well connected family. Their father was Shashdhar Mukherji, a big name in Bollywood movie making. Their uncle (chacha) was Subodh Mukherji, the well known movie producer. From their mother’s side, they were connected to Ashok Kumar, Kishore Kumar and Anup Kumar, who were their mamas.
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Tu naa bataa hamen sab hai pataa
Posted on: May 20, 2009
Here is another interesting song from “Baap re Baap” (1955). I call this a “jhoola” song, where a lady (Smriti Biswas? Chand Usmani ? ) is swinging on a “jhoola” and singing this song. Kishore Kumar is also there and he goes round and round trees, dancing his unique dance and playing a mouth organ all the time.
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Daal kaise gale
Posted on: May 19, 2009
“Baap Re Baap” (1955) was one of the earliest movies of Kishore Kumar as an actor-singer. In this movie he sang a few comedy songs under the music direction of O P Nayyar.
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Honth hain tere do laal heere
Posted on: April 23, 2009
O P Nayyar was one music director who reached the top without using Lata’s voice. He groomed Asha Bhonsle and he was responsible for her singing style.
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Aao huzoor tumko
Posted on: April 20, 2009
“Kismat” had some superb music composed by O P Nayyar. Though Rafi was not there to sing ( he had his differences with O P Nayyar those days) and Mahendra Kapoor had done a decent job filling in for him. And O P Nayyar had used the voice of Shamshad Begum for a song too.
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kamar patli nazar bijli
Posted on: April 12, 2009
If one watched a bollywood movie in 1960s and 1970s, one was sure to have a Helen dance accompanied by a song. This song will have little relevance to the story line of the movie and Helen will not be found anywhere else in the movie, but her dance was still regarded as a major attraction of the movie.
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O P Nayyar had fixed singing templates for his singers to follow. His female singers needed to sing in Asha Bhonsle style, and his male singers needed to sing in Rafi style. In case one of these singers were not available for recording the song, then the replacement singer was required to sing in the same way.
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Aankhon mein qayaamat ke kaajal
Posted on: April 8, 2009
O P Nayyar, a headstrong music director who ruled the roost for much of 1950s tended to alienate people even close to him. By the time he was creating the music of “Kismat”, he was not on speaking tems with Rafi and so he used the voice of Mahendra Kapoor in the songs of “Kismat”. Mahendra Kapoor was required to sing Rafi style, and he did a competent job of it.
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Jab baadal lahraaya
Posted on: April 4, 2009
I had just mentioned while posting one such song that there were very few “baadal” songs in Bollywood movies.
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