Posts Tagged ‘Raj Kapoor’
In late 1940s and early 1950s, actors were shown seated at the piano and singing a song. Now singing a song and playing a piano simultaneously is a superhuman job, but Bollywood actors would be shown doing that routinely.
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Aa jaao tadapte hain armaan
Posted on: September 19, 2009
The more songs I post, the more I realise how small is the collection of songs in this blog vis a vis the sheer volume of quality songs that are not yet covered. I am approaching 2000 songs in this blog, but I feel that I have only scratched the surface so far.
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Zindagi khwaab hai
Posted on: September 17, 2009
I have posted some 30 songs in this blog that can be categorised as drunkard songs. But still there are many such drunkard songs that remain to be posted.
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Rut albeli mast samaan
Posted on: September 16, 2009
When one watches old Bollywood songs, one can often see things that then existed at that time. For instance, watching the Bombay of old Bollywood movies give us a glimpse of that city as it then was.
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More ang lag jaa baalmaa
Posted on: August 27, 2009
I have listened to this song many a times, but I had no idea which movie this song was from.
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We have seen songs picturised on Raj Kapoor that were sung mostly by Mukesh, but sometimes by other playback singers as well. For example, there were occasions when Rafi, Manna Dey, Talat Mehmood etc have sung for Raj Kapoor. In fact, in a few early movies, Raj Kapoor sang for himself !
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We are so used to Mukesh being the voice of Raj Kapoor that we do not pause to think how it would be if Raj Kapoor sang for himself.
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Sunte thhe naam ham jinka bahaar se
Posted on: July 29, 2009
I have been posting songs of “Aah” (1953) all these days, and I am realising that just about every song of this movie is as good as the others.
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Here is a light hearted romantic song from a movie called “Dulha Dulhan” (1964).
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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