Posts Tagged ‘R D Burman’
I have mentioned it already a few times that “Amar Prem” was full of hit songs. In fact I am not aware of any single song from this movie that remained unpopular.
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Paas nahin aana bhool nahin jaana
Posted on: April 18, 2009
It is generally belived that commercial (mainstream) bollywood movies were make belive ones whereas “art” movies depicted reality. Not always.
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Doli mein bithhaaike kahaar
Posted on: April 16, 2009
S D Burman was not only an outstanding music director, he was also a singer with a unique singing style and his songs, though few in numbers, have the ability to touch the heart strings of the listeners almost without fail.
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Muthukodi kawaadi hadaa
Posted on: April 12, 2009
In Bollywood movies, singing any kind of songs is mostly the preserve of Hero and Heroine. One important category of songs that they sing is love songs. There too, some conventions have been set. For instance, the love songs would be sung in a very upscale dignified way, with refined sophisticated lyrics and the two characters acting in a socially acceptable way viz acting coy and restrained.
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Waadiyaan mera daaman
Posted on: April 9, 2009
During my childhood, I got to hear lots of loudspeaker songs ( viz songs blaring out of loudspeakers) where no details of movies, lyrics and music directors were available. Of course that did not prevent one from enjoying these songs. But since these details were not known, one forgot these songs as they stopped being played on loudspeakers.
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Chhod bedardi aanchal
Posted on: April 3, 2009
Here is another song which I heard a lot in my young days, and liked it, before this song got forgotten.
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Tum saath ho jab apne
Posted on: March 21, 2009
“Kaalia” was a movie starring Amitabh Bachchan and Parveen Babi. This movie had music by R D Burman and he came up with some memorable music.
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Jahaan teri ye nazar hai
Posted on: March 20, 2009
“Kaalia” (1980) was one of the last Amitabh Bachchan movies in which R D Burman gave music. The music of this movie was quite popular.
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Do lafzon ki hai dil ki kahaani
Posted on: March 20, 2009
“The Great Gambler” was an Amitabh Bachchan movie that was pronounced a damp squib when it was released in 1979. That came as a surprise to me because I found it a more watchable movie than many of the supposedly successful Amitabh Bachchan movies like “Muqaddar Ka Sikandar”, “Suhaag” etc.
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Jee chaahe jee chaahe
Posted on: March 18, 2009
“Raja” (1975) was a movie starring Rishi kapoor and Sulakshana Pandit. Few people ( including me) were aware of the existence of this movie. I was of course aware about the songs without knowing which movie these songs were from.
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