Posts Tagged ‘P L santoshi’
Believe it or not , there was a Hindi movie with a title like “Shin Shinaaki Bubbla Boo” as early as 1952. One may think that this movie, going by its title must be full of forgettable songs based on western music.
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Koi kisi kaa deewaana na bane
Posted on: July 27, 2009
I am familiar with a movie called “Sargam” that was released in 1979 and that had hit music by Laxmikant Pyarelal. But there was another movie by this name in 1950. It had hit music by C Ramchandra.
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maar kataari mar jaana
Posted on: June 24, 2009
“Shehnaayi” (1947) was a box office hit movie. One big attraction of this movie was its music. The movie had some path breaking songs in it.
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Jawaani ki rail chali jaaye re
Posted on: June 19, 2009
Stumbling upon songs that I never heard before is nothing new for me. But it looks like this stumbling is something different. I have really stumbled upon a rich vein of old classics this time.
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Apni adaa par main fidaa
Posted on: May 26, 2009
Here is a cute and lovely song from a 1953 movie called “Teen Batti Chaar Raasta”. In this movie Sandhya plays a domestic help who has a great singing voice.
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It is widely believed by people that western music was introduced in bollywood in 1960s by R D Burman and that Hinglish lyrics began to be used in 1980s. One is way off the mark if one believes so.
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Koi aa jaaye
Posted on: April 7, 2009
I have posted two nice songs from this 1958 movie called “Post Box 999” in the past. Here is another song from this movie.
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Tooti phooti gaadi
Posted on: March 30, 2009
It is an unbelievably sweet and romantic song from a movie few people may even be aware of.
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Neend na mujhko aaye
Posted on: February 20, 2009
“Post Office Box 999”- This was the title of a 1958 movie. And this movie had some superb songs.
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Mere dil mein hai ik baat
Posted on: February 11, 2009
Few people have heard of this movie called “Post Ofice Box 999”.It had Sunil Dutt and Shakila in lead roles.
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