Posts Tagged ‘Qamar Jalalabadi’
Raahi matwaale
Posted on: June 18, 2009
Some time back, I had compiled a list of rail songs. It had about 20 odd songs and I thought that I had all the rail songs covered. That list of songs is still there in my other ( by now rather defunct) blog.
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“Chhaliya”(1960) was a Raj Kapoor movie and it had Mukesh singing for him as usual. But its music team was not Shailendra and Shankar Jaikishan. Rather, Qamar Jalalabadi had written the songs and Kalyanji Anandji, then in their early years as music directors had got this big break to compose music in this movie. This movie incidentally was the debut movie for director Manmohan Desai as well.
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Chhaliya mera naam
Posted on: April 6, 2009
Movies, unlike books are meant for the lowest common denominator of the population, and that includes lots of people who are illiterates and of modest intelligence.That is why Bollywood movies have storylines where even the obvious needed to be stated clearly lest the audience be left in doubt.
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When one needs to record a teasing song, then the name of which male singer comes to mind ? Rafi, Kishore Kumar etc of course.
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Phir tumhaari yaad aayi ai sanam
Posted on: March 24, 2009
Here is a song which I do not recall having listened to in the past. It is a qawwaali, and one that appeals to the listener the very first time one listens to it.
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Ye kaisi ajab daastaan ho gayi hai
Posted on: March 23, 2009
Suraiyya, who was a big name singer-actor in 1940s insisted on singing only for herself. As a result, when the era of specialist playback singers dawned in 1950s, Suraiyya found few takers for her acting-cum-singing. Had she agreed to be mainly a playback singer, she could have had a long innings, but she would not sing for others.
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Ik pardesi mera dil le gaya
Posted on: March 10, 2009
“Naagin” song has the most well known “been” tune in Bollywood music, but this “been” music in this song from “Phaagun” (1958) is just as wonderful.
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Muhabbat zinda rahti hai
Posted on: March 3, 2009
Here is another example of a C grade forgettable movie yielding an iconic song.
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O sanam
Posted on: February 27, 2009
In olden days, love songs would often have words like “Chaand”, “raat” etc in their lyrics. Another interesting variation was where the hero would sing a sing in a moonlit night with tajmahal in the background.
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The movie “Paaras” (1971) is by now a forgotten movie. But this movie was a nice threasure trove of some very nice songs.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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