Posts Tagged ‘S D Burman’
Jogi jabse tu aayaa mere dwaare
Posted on: June 10, 2010
I mostly know only about the more popular songs of a movie and I am totally unaware about the other songs. I have been discovering that these so called less popular songs are often wonderful songs to listen to. And in some cases, these songs may even be as good or better, than the better known songs of the movie concerned.
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Tere bin soone nain hamaare
Posted on: June 10, 2010
I have posted as many as three outstanding songs from “Meri Soorat Teri Aankhen”(1963). I was not sure that these movie had more songs of the same calibre.
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Wo sapne waali raat
Posted on: May 22, 2010
Nargis and Raj Kapoor had worked together in 14 movies in all. One of the lesser known movies where they worked together is called “Pyaar” (1950). This movie may be lesser known, but it is a trivia buff’s delight. For instance, this is the only movie where Kishore Kumar gave playback for Raj Kapoor.
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Aayenge aayenge aayenge re
Posted on: May 18, 2010
This song is from a very old movie called “Dil Ki Rani” (1947). Most people involved in the creation of this song are now household names, but at the time of creation of this song, they were newcomers. In fact the names by which they were then known are not the names by which they are known today.
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O zaraa ruk jaa
Posted on: May 8, 2010
In Bollywood movies, singing is mostly the preserve of lead actors (Hero/ Heroine). Others are required to serve as fillers.
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I had been thinking of posting this song for at least one year, if not more. But somehow I was not able to bridge the gap between intention and implementation. One reason was that I was not able to get the lyrics right to my satisfaction. In addition to understandable words, this song also has gibberish (which could well be words in some other languages) that I was unable to note down correctly.
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Chanda mama mere dwaar aanaa
Posted on: March 31, 2010
It was one year ago that I had discovered “Lajwanti” (1958) and I discussed most songs of this movie in this blog. But there is one song that remained unposted because I could not find a video link of that song at that time.
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Kusoor aapkaa huzoor aapkaa
Posted on: March 31, 2010
Wow ! I was not aware of this song. What a rollicking and rocking song this is ! This song must be one of the first such songs sung by Kishore Kumar where he sings in the style that would become his trademark singing style.
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These days I am posting the songs of “Munimji” (1955). This movie had Dev Anand and Nalini Jaiwant in lead roles.
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Saajan bin neend naa aawe
Posted on: March 28, 2010
There are many musical gems that are not known to many because these songs were omitted from the movie. I have posted several such songs here.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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