Posts Tagged ‘Prem Dhawan’
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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Tujhe sooraj kahoon ya chandaa
Posted on: January 24, 2009
Most Bollywood movies have make believe story lines that have little resemblence with real life. But then, there come some movies which are so life like that one is bound to fall in love with these movies. One feels happy when the protagonists are happy and one is sad when tragedy strikes them.
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Chanda re ja re ja re
Posted on: January 11, 2009
To most of us, singers like Lata and Kishore Kumar are legends. But no one is born a legend. Everyone, including the legends, have to make a beginning somewhere.
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Seene mein sulagte hai armaan
Posted on: January 11, 2009
This movie is called “Tarana” (1951) and it had Dilip Kumar and Madhubala in the lead roles. This movie had some very good music composed by Anil Biswas on the lyrics written by Prem Dhawan.
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The golden era of Bollywood music (1950-1980) saw an embarrassment of riches as far as talented music directors were concerned. Among all these music directors, Ravi is one of the lesser known names. But if one looks at his output, he must be regarded as the most successful and most classy music directors.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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