Posts Tagged ‘Rishi Kapoor’
Though boy and girl falling in love and singing love songs is a standard theme in Bollywood movies, such an activity is not as easy to carry out in real life India as is made out in Bollywood movies. Most real life lovers have to carry out their love lives on the sly , away from the family and public lives.
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“Aapke Deewaane” (1980) is a movie that had some nice songs in it. This is one of the few movies I recall where Rafi and Kishore Kumar sang together. It was perhaps for the last time that the two sang together, since Rafi died shortly thereafter.
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Mere roothhe balam
Posted on: June 22, 2009
“Raaja” (1975) was a movie starring Rishi Kapoor and Sulakshana Pandit, but the movie turned out to be a flop. Perhaps public only wanted to see Rishi Kapoor with Neetu Singh, and Sulakshana Pandit could not be a suitable replacement.
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“Chaandni” was like a welcome musical oasis among the desert of plagiarised disco music in 1980s. And the fact that the music directors of this movie, shiv Hari had worked with legendary music directors of the golden era of Bollywood music certainly helped.
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Jee chaahe jee chaahe
Posted on: March 18, 2009
“Raja” (1975) was a movie starring Rishi kapoor and Sulakshana Pandit. Few people ( including me) were aware of the existence of this movie. I was of course aware about the songs without knowing which movie these songs were from.
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Paayaliya ho ho ho ho
Posted on: March 17, 2009
“Deewaana” (1992) was a movie starring Rishi Kapoor with newcomers Divya Bharti and Shahrukh Khan. One attraction of the movie was its songs.
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Main shaayar to nahin
Posted on: March 10, 2009
After the box office failure of “Mera naam Joker”, Raj Kapoor decided to make a clean break from the past. When he decided to make a teenage love story, he signed up an entirely new team.
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Parbat ke is paar
Posted on: February 20, 2009
“Sargam” (1979), which was a remake of a Telugu movie, was the movie where Jaya Prada made her debut in Bollywood movies.
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Kaun hoon main kaun hai tu
Posted on: February 19, 2009
Bollywood movies of 1970s typically had a “disguise” song where the hero or heroine would enter the heavy security villain’s den in disguise. Their disguise would always be as the lead dancer (s) of the music troupe that was supposed to entertain the guests of the villain.
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Dafli waale dafli bajaa
Posted on: February 12, 2009
Jaya Prada made her Bollywood debut with “Sargam” (1979) opposite Rishi Kapoor. In this movie, she played a dumb woman. But you would not know that, seeing that she sings many great songs in this movie.
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