Posts Tagged ‘R D Burman’
Kahin naa jaa aaj kahin mat jaa
Posted on: September 9, 2010
I had begun to lose track of Hindi movie music by 1980s. By that time, Bappi Lahiri with his chaalu brand of songs had displaced the usual kind of music and the golden era of Hindi movie music was all but over. In late 1960s, R D Burman kind of music marginalised the older generation of music directors. Here , in late 1970, we find Bappi Lahiri brand of music marginalising the likes of R D Burman !
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This post is written by Santosh Ojha, a relatively new visitor of this blog and a fellow enthusiast of Bollywood movie music
I had stumbled onto Atul’s admirable effort a few months ago when I was looking for the lyrics of “Aaj pahli tarikh hai” for a non-film piece for my own blog. After I posted the piece, I sent the link to Atul who not only read that piece, but also several others on my blog. He has been prompt -and generous- with his comments. Over time we had sporadic email exchanges. We discovered that not only we had a common interest (Hindi film songs) but also our backgrounds; similar age, similar geography (he from Ranchi and I from Jamshedpur; both in Jharkhand) and both from middle-class families.
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This post is written by Raja, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor of posts to this blog
It is my gut feel (and I may be wrong here) that the early 70s saw more newcomers entering the Hindi film industry for significant roles (not necessarily hero/heroine) than any other period before this time.
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This post is written by Raja, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor of posts to this blog
Hindi cinema has had its share of superstars and stars. Whenever we think of the star, we tend to think of the person in his or her glory.
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In this blog, I have posted several genre of songs. Not every song is everyone’s cup of tea. There are some genre of songs that can only be appreciated by very few people with tastes acquired after decades.
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This post is written by Raja, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor of posts to this blog
The first Rajesh Khanna movie I remember watching in my life is Kati Patang. By then his star was on the rise and this movie, blockbuster that it turned out to be, only further confirmed this state of affairs.
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“Hare Rama Hare Krishnaa” (1971) was a movie that was the biggest hit of the year. The movie as well as its music had taken the fans by storm at that time.
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Here is a song whose farmaish was given by a reader Sunit but I was unable to post it since I was neither aware of this song nor was I able to locate it. Raja very kindly provided me the link of this song with the comment that this song was a popular song of his (and my) childhood days.
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This post is written by Raja, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie songs and a regular visitor of this blog
Often the catchy songs that you sing in your childhood stay with you for the rest of your life.
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Aaj huaa meraa dil matwaalaa
Posted on: August 5, 2010
“Chhote Nawaab” (1961) was R D Burman’s debut movie. He was given this break by Mehmood, and the rest, as they say, was history.
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