Posts Tagged ‘O P Nayyar’
Chain se humko kabhi
Posted on: December 28, 2008
O P Nayyar and Asha Bhonsle had forged a long professional relation for 15 years which had turned personal as well. The two had continued an affair that lasted just as long. Towards the early years of 1970s, when O P Nayyar was no longer the top music director of Bollywood and his music was losing its hold over the public, his personal relationship with Asha Bhonsle was on the rocks as well. The two finally split in 1972. Prior to that, they had recorded this song “Chain se humko kabhi aapne jeene na diyaa”. From the voice, lyrics and the music, it is obvious that Asha Bhonsle, the lyricist S H Bihari ( a close confidant of O P Nayyar) and O P Nayyar had given this song their best.
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Hamdam mere maan bhi jaao
Posted on: December 22, 2008
These days I am enjoying lisening to Rafi songs picturised on Shammi Kapoor. They are so energetic and uplifting that listening to them regularly must become a habit with everyone.
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It is a song that I call as a “Tonga” song, and for good reasons. The music of O P Nayyar very much reminds one of a horse hoofing along merrily drawing the tonga along. And the picturisation actually shows a tonga with Kishore Kumar and Chand Usmani as its passengers.
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Nigaahon ne phenka hai
Posted on: December 14, 2008
The movie is called “Jaali Note” viz “couterfeit note”. The movie had Dev Anand and Madhubala in lead roles.
Helen was beginning to make her presence felt in those days in the sense that she was beginning to get a song every movie. This trend of one Helen song per movie would last for nearly two decades.
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Haath aaya hai jabse tera
Posted on: December 14, 2008
What are the odds of you walking on a beach and stumbling upon gems every few steps ? Well, I have been exploring Bollywood music and I am coming across gems after gems. In some cases, I at least knew the names of the movies, and in some cases, I was not even aware about the name of the movie. And when I listen to these songs, I am amazed to find that these songs are lying forgotten.
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Dekho kasam se kahte hain tumse
Posted on: December 9, 2008
There are many Shammi Kapoor fans out there. And they keep asking me to post Shammi Kapoor songs.
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Kahaan se laayi ho jaaneman
Posted on: December 9, 2008
Has anyone heard of this movie called “Dil Aur Mohabbat” ? I had not. But when I started digging, I found that it was a movie released in 1968 where Joy Mukherjee and Sharmila Tagore had played the main roles.
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Chaand zard zard hai
Posted on: December 8, 2008
Here is yet another song that I had never heard before. And when I heard it, I was amazed how such songs should have been lost to the fans of bollywood music fans. Now thanks to internet and services like youtube, many such songs are coming to the notice of fans once again.
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While watching very old movies, one big attraction for me is to watch how places looked like in those days. It is especially for this reason that I watch movies of 1950s and earlier.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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