Posts Tagged ‘Rajendra Kumar’
Ye hawa ye mastaana mausam
Posted on: September 30, 2009
“Akeli Mat Jaiyyo” (1963) was one of those movies that failed at the box office despite boasting of names like Rajendra “Jubilee” Kumar and Meena Kumari. Madan Mohan yet again had the mortification of watching his music go down the drain because his songs from this movie failed to take off as a result of the failure of this movie.
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Ye albeli pyaar ki raahein
Posted on: September 22, 2009
“Dharti” (1970) was one of the last movies in which both Rajendra Kumar and Waheeda Rehman were seen in lead roles. By this time both had begun to show their ages and were soon upstaged by younger and fresher faces.
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In Bollywood movie songs, it the the boy who wooes the girl and the girl takes exception. But what happens when it is the other way round ? When the girl starts wooing the boy, then the latter is very uncomfortable. And that was much more so half a century ago.
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I was neither aware of this movie called “Talaaq” (1958) nor this song from the movie.
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Sainyaa kyun aaye mujhe angdaayi
Posted on: August 1, 2009
“Duniya Rang Rangeeli”(1957) was a movie starring Rajendra Kumar, Chand Usmani, Johny Walker etc.
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Dheere dheere bol koi sun naa le
Posted on: July 18, 2009
Here is a song from “Gora aur Kaala” (1972). It was a popular song during its time.
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Sataa le ae jahaan
Posted on: July 17, 2009
Mukesh singing for Rajendra Kumar is not as common as Rafi singing for him. However, “Sasural” was one movie where Mukesh had given playback for Rajendra Kumar.
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Rajendra Kumar, known for copying Dilip Kumar’s mannerisms, was known as Jubilee Kumar, because almost all his movies tended to be jubilee hits. Those days,movies completing 25 weeks were called silver jubilee hits and movies completing 50 weeks were called golden jubilee hits. Almost every Rajendra Kumar movie was a jubilee hit.
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“Suraj” (1966) starring Rajendra Kumar and Vyjyantimala was the biggest music blockbuster of the year. I have posted a few songs from this movie already.
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In bollywood, we have “teasing” songs where hero is seen teasing the heroine rather roughly against her wishes and getting away with it. In real life India, such a conduct is considered highly objectionable and rightly so, since it is clearly sexual harassment. In fact, a uniquely Indian term called “eve teasing” has come into existence in India, much to the amusement of non Indian observers. And such “eve teasing” is punishable under Indian Penal Code, articles 298 (A) and (B).
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