Posts Tagged ‘R D Burman’
There are several songs that play at the very beginning of the movie as the credits begin rolling in on screen. I have not yet had a category for them, but I think I should call such songs as movie opening songs. They open the movie like how opening batsmen open an innings in a cricket match.
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Ye safar bahut hai kathin magar
Posted on: September 6, 2009
“1942, A love story” (1993) was a movie where the music saved the day for the movie. The songs of this movie were reminishent of 1960s where music tended to be a major attraction of movies.
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I can watch Bollywood songs any time, but ask me to watch a Bollywood movie containing the same songs and I develop cold feet. I find that the songs are often the only redeeming part of many movies.
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Though western music was introduced in Bollywood music as early as in 1940s itself, such music remained peripheral for nearly two decades or so. It was only in the second half of 1960s that western music began to take centrestage in Bollywood movie music.
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“Bahaaron ke Sapne” (1967) was one of the very first movies of Rajesh Khanna. In this movie, a very young looking Rajesh Khanna was paired against Asha Parekh.
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“Aa gale lag jaa” (1973) is a movie starring Shashi Kapoor and Sharmila Tagore. Like most songs of those days, this movie too boasted of some superb songs.
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Sona Rupaa laayo re
Posted on: August 4, 2009
“Josheela” (1973) was a movie featuring Dev Anand and Hema Malini. The makers of this movie were expecting the movie to succeed like “Johny Mera Naam” which had the same pair. But lightening did not strike the second time and the movie failed.
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Kishore Kumar and R D Burman absolutely lorded over Bollywood music scene in late 1960s and early 1970s. Most of their creations , irrespective of the quality of the movie, were outstanding.
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Chaand churaa ke laaya hoon
Posted on: July 28, 2009
“Devtaa” (1978) was a small budget off beat movie with Sanjeev Kumar and Shabana Azmi in lead roles. The movie itself did reasonably well with its small target audience, and then the movie was forgotten.
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“Adhikaar” (1971) was a movie which was a musical blockbuster, though the movie itself flopped.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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