Posts Tagged ‘Ravi’
Mujhe pyaar ki zindagi dene waale
Posted on: August 4, 2010
I was not aware of this movie called “Pyaar Kaa Saagar” (1961). It turns out that this movie had Rajendra Kumar and Meena Kumari in lead roles.
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Meena Kumari who played happy roles in 1950s began to play tragic roles in 1960s. And that obviously included singing sad songs as well.
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Here is a nice song from a lesser known movie. This movie is “Mulzim” (1963) and it had Pradeep Kumar and Shakila in lead roles.
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Most of the stories in Bollywood movies are derived from the Indian traditions. And in Indian tradition, though a married woman is called “ardhaanigini” (significant half- let us say), but on the other hand, she is required to treat her husband as a superior being, her god, and her place is supposed to be at his feet.
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Mere peechhe ik deewaanaa
Posted on: July 27, 2010
I became aware of this song only because of a farmaish for this song.
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Ye khaamoshiyaan ye tanhaayiyaan
Posted on: July 22, 2010
Here is a song whose farmaish was given by Raja more than a year back. And as often happens with me, I may have listened to this song in passing in the past, but it is only now that I have seriously listened to this song.
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Zindagi mein pyaar karnaa seekh le
Posted on: July 18, 2010
Here is a party song from “Phool Aur Patthar” (1966). I became aware of this song only just now, and that too thanks to the farmaish of this song by Dr. Mohan Doshi.
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“Hamraaz” (1968) was a suspense movie though one would not realise that from the songs. The movie had Sunil Dutt and Vimmi in lead roles, with Raj Kumar and others for company.
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Chal mere ghode tik tik tik
Posted on: June 26, 2010
(This song review is by Greta (Memsaab) who recently reviewed this movie in her blog.)
I had no idea when I first saw and heard this enchanting song a week ago that it is an integral part of Indian childhood. In the wake of my movie review, many people commented that they knew and loved the song but hadn’t known that it was a film song. Not only is the music beautiful (I’m still singing the refrain over and over), but the picturization of it is sublime. I had to rewind and watch the song two or three times before I could move on to the rest of the film.
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I have posted a couple of songs from “Door Ki Aawaaz” (1964) in the past. The evergreen “ham bhi agar bachhe hote” is one of these songs that has been posted earlier.
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