Posts Tagged ‘Qamar Jalalabadi’
Paas aake huye ham door
Posted on: September 17, 2010
In old days, when we did not have all these shopping complexes, baazaar, especially Meena Baazar was the ultimate in shopping experience. As a kid, it was my dream to go visit a Meena Bazar.
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Apni nazar se door wo
Posted on: September 10, 2010
“Bazaar” (1949) was a movie with Shyam, Nigar Sultana, Gope, Yaqoob, Kukku etc in it. This movie may have been forgotten by now, but this movie has some nice songs in it.
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It is difficult to imagine how Mukesh (of dard bhare naghme fame) would sound on Mehmood (known for loud comedy). Well, stereotyping aside,we actually have instances of Mukesh singing for Mehmood.
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Johny Walker, who mostly played a comedian in Hindi movie had become so popular that he began to command one song per movie which was typically sung by Rafi. This song was often a major highlight of the movie.
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Chhotaa saa baalmaa
Posted on: August 17, 2010
The name of O P Nayyar is normally associated with racy songs. He was not a classical music trained music director, unlike many of his peers. But even then, O P Nayyar could still come up with lovely semi classical songs if the situation so demanded.
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“Priyaa” (1970) is a movie that is not remembered much today, but this movie had a couple of songs that were quite popular those days. I remember those songs with fondness and so do others who lived in those days.
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“Pyaar Ki Jeet” (1948) was a movie starring Suraiyya and Dev Anand Rehman. This movie had some very nice songs in it.
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Bana de bana de bana de Prabhu ji
Posted on: July 15, 2010
In my series of songs from the movie “Phagun” (1958), here is the 11th and final song from the movie.
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I have been posting the songs of “Phagun” (1958) these days. Here is the 10th song from this movie.
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Barso re bairi badarwaa barso re
Posted on: July 13, 2010
Kids of my and earlier generations grew up reading adventure tales where intrepid explorers going deep into Africa would be captured by natives and tied at the stake and the man eating natives would then dance around the stakes as preparation for cooking the captured adventurers in their cooking pots.
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