Posts Tagged ‘Prem Dhawan’
Aasmaan aasmaan tu kyaa jaane
Posted on: November 24, 2009
In Bollywood movies, when boy first sees a girl, he would sing a teasing song addressed to her. She would take exception, naturally, but later on, she would fall in love with him and then they would sing a duet, running round trees.
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Here is a bicycle song from an obscure movie called “Zamaana” (1957). The song is picturised on Ameeta and Kamaljit (later better remembered as Waheeda Rehman’s husband). This song is a duet, mostly sung by Asha Bhonsle, with some male voice too. I have no idea about the male voice. It sounds like G M Durrani, but then he was no longer around in 1957 I think. The singer could well be Kamaljit himself. (PS- I have later read somewhere that it was Kamaljit himself).
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As obscure movies go, “Police Detective” (1960) must be among the most obscure. This movie had Sujit Kumar, Shyama,Jayshree Gadkar and Anwar Hussain in lead roles. It was a B grade movie.
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I have posted one song from “Miss Bombay” (1957) in the past. Today I stumbled upon another song from this song. And what a song it is ! Such a lively song ! I do not know too many songs that are this full of joie de vivre.
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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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Hamko bhi de de sahaara
Posted on: November 5, 2009
“Zabak” (1961) was a movie that is not known to too many people, considering that it was an B grade movie. Its music was A grade, of course.
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Arri O makki ke phoote daane
Posted on: October 24, 2009
“Mirza Sahibaan” (1957) is an obscure movie which had Shammi Kapoor and Shyama in lead roles.
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Hoon main ik nayaa taraana
Posted on: October 23, 2009
A female dancer singing and dancing in a club, paying particular attention to the table where the hero is seated was a standard fare in Bollywood movies of 1950s. Geeta Bali, Geeta Dutt and Dev Anand often figured in such songs.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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