Posts Tagged ‘Prem Dhawan’
Dil ko laakh sambhaala ji
Posted on: April 9, 2009
It is a very well known song. And you guessed it, I was not aware of its details except the name of the singer.
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Chale bhi aao kasam tumhen
Posted on: April 9, 2009
Music director Ravi, who made his debut as an independent music director in 1955, began to churn out nice music immediately. Here is a nice song from a 1957 movie called “Ek Saal”.
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O lootnewaale duniya ko
Posted on: April 2, 2009
I was aware of movies called “Dushman” featuring K L Saigal in 1938 and Rajesh Khanna in 1971. But it appears that there was a third “Dushman” too which was released in 1957 and it had Dev Anand in lead role.
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BA, MA, PhD
Posted on: March 30, 2009
Here is yet another song about whose existence I was totally ignorant. And what a superb song it is ! It is from the movie “Adhikaar” (1954) from which I have already posted an equally awesome song ( “kamaata hoon bahut kuch” sung by Kishore Kumar and Geeta Dutt).
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Jaa re beimaan tujhe jaan liyaa
Posted on: March 27, 2009
This is an unknown song (at least for me) from an unknown movie called “Private secretary” (1962) composed by an unknown music director called Dilip Dholakiya.
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Jaa jaa re chanda jaa re
Posted on: March 26, 2009
The movie “Private Secretary” (1962) is not one that is known to too many people. Prem Dhawan was the lyricist and this movie had someone called Dilip Dholakiya as the music director.
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Chanda mama door ke
Posted on: March 26, 2009
Translation and comments on the lyrics have been provided by Sudhir
“Vachan” was Ravi’s debut movie as a music director. I have said it that Ravi was a music director who created a large number of iconic songs, which have become immortal. And Ravi began proving that right from his debut movie.
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Aa lag ja gale dilruba
Posted on: February 13, 2009
“Das Lakh” (1966) is known for its iconic title song that went- “gareebon ki suno wo tumhaari sunega”.
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Jab liya haath mein haath
Posted on: February 4, 2009
“Vachan” was a movie produced by Devendra Goel. This movie was also the debut movie of Ravi as a music director. Ravi, who was till then an assistant of Hemant Kumar made a mark as an independent music director with this movie and he never looked back since.
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There are many kinds of patriotic songs. Some are those in which one’s own nation is praised, some are those in which facts are not always presented correctly.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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