Posts Tagged ‘Rajesh Khanna’
Daanton taley dabaa kar honth
Posted on: September 1, 2010
This post is written by Raja, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor of posts to this blog
Till 1974-75, when Rajesh Khanna’s movies began losing their appeal (for me at least), I was happy to watch any Rajesh movie for him alone. There was almost always at least one good song to enjoy in the movie. And very often more than one.
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Saath mein pyaaraa saathi hai
Posted on: August 28, 2010
This post is written by Raja, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor of posts to this blog
It is practically impossible to talk of actors or hit films of Bollywood of the early 70s and not speak of Rajesh Khanna in the same breath. He was synonymous with Bollywood hit movies at that time and though other heroes did manage a few hits between them, he was THE towering figure amongst them all at that time.
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This post is written by Raja, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor of posts to this blog
As is well-known, Aradhana was THE movie that was the turning point in Rajesh Khanna’s career. However, he did act in a few movies before Aradhana.
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This post is written by Raja, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor of posts to this blog
The first Rajesh Khanna movie I remember watching in my life is Kati Patang. By then his star was on the rise and this movie, blockbuster that it turned out to be, only further confirmed this state of affairs.
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This article is written by Raja,a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor of articles to this blog
When I was growing up, a certain person in Bollywood was growing too. The difference was I was growing in primary school, he was growing towards superstardom.
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“Bahaaron Ke Sapne” was one of the earliest movies of Rajesh Khanna before his pre- superstardom days. In this movie, Rajesh Khanna plays an ordinary man who has ordinary worries, viz he is looking for a job.
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Main shaayar badnaam
Posted on: July 31, 2010
While posting songs from the golden era of Bollywood movies, I have tended to concentrate more on the songs of 1950s and 1960s, even though I grew up with songs of 1970s. Just like we these days lament about the quality of Bollywood movie songs today and cite old Bollywood movie songs as the epitome of quality, the same lament was heard even in 1970s. Even I was under the impression that the quality of music in 1970s was not what it was in the earlier years. Now of course I can have a hearty laugh at my own expense with the benefit of hindsight.
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“Mere Jeewan Saathi” (1972) is full of great songs that were big rage during its heydays. The popularity of songs of this movie was just incredible.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
Aayiye aapko main apne bangley ki sair karaaun
Posted by: Atul on: July 5, 2010
There was a time when India had only one TV channel and that used to telecast boring programmes and news. Now we have countless channels including several news channels. These news channels are often short of ideas and they try to create news out of thin air and call that as “breaking news”. Typically the reporter of the channel will go to a certain site and try to describe a breaking news item, and he will struggle to find things to say.
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