Posts Tagged ‘Rafi’
Kaun kisi ko baandh saka hai
Posted on: November 20, 2008
In Bollywood movies, jail inmates are often shown as comedians, and there are a few comedy songs in Bollywood movies sung by the jailbirds, viz in “Vishwanath”.
“Kaaliya” too has a jail song, but here it is a philosophical song. This song is not sung by the hero ( Amitabh) or any other main character of the movie.
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This song is the title song of the movie called “Badalte Rishtey”. And this song also happens to be perhaps the best known and most popular song from this movie. This song is picturised in a typical Reena Roy fashion, viz it is a song sung by her in a party/ get together, just like Dharmendra used to do in 1960s.Rishi Kapoor and later Jeetendra also join her in singing this song.
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Laal laal gaal
Posted on: November 18, 2008
1950s saw many changes in Bollywood movie songs. Many music directors were introducing folk music into Bollywood music with great success. Then there were other music directors who introduced western music popular at that time.
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1950s and 1960s saw many historical movies ( mostly from Mughal period) being made. These movies have become part of Indian psyche. So much so that there are many people who actually think that emperor Akbar spoke in a “fata baans” kind of croaking voice, and that there was actually someone called Anarkali. History tells us that Akbar hardly looked like Prithviraj Kapoor and there is no mention of Anarkali in historical chronicles, but then far less number of people read history than those that watch movies.
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I read many times that Bollywood movies would have songs where the boy and girl would be shown singing songs running around trees. Honestly, I have not seen any proper song fulfilling this description. On the other hand, I have seen dozens of songs where boy and girl are shown singing elsewhere, viz on car, boat, train etc. In fact, there are enough number of such songs for me to open tags like “car” song, “boat” song etc. So far I have not felt the need of having a tag for “tree ” songs, that is how elusive such songs are.
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This song is a very popular song from my childhood. As happened with me most of the time, I would have no clue about such songs except the name of the singer. And with time I would forget all about such songs as they went out of circulation.
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Kya miliye aise logon se
Posted on: November 15, 2008
When a seminar/ get-together/ function etc is organised, these programmes have addresses made by eminent people viz chief guest, invited dignitaries etc. Suppose Bollywood decided to make a movie on this topic. Then how would a movie made on this subject look like ?
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Naache man mora magan
Posted on: November 11, 2008
Here is this song “naache man mora magan” from “Meri Soorat Teri Aankhen”. I have listened to this song in past, but never fully or with rapt attention. But this time, when I listened to this song as a preparation for including it in the blog, I really was made to sit up and take notice.
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This is a song from “Son of India”, which was a movie of 1962 and it had one very popular song called “Nanha munha raahi hoon main desh ka sipaahi hoon”. This movie had other popular songs as well.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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