Posts Tagged ‘S D Burman’
Gir gaya jhumka girne do
Posted on: February 9, 2009
In India, most couples have arranged marriages, but you could not realise that by watching Bollywood movies, where every hero and his sidekick seemed to fall in love and sing romantic songs. To the credit of Bollywood actors, a few on screen lovers of Bollywood movies actually tied the knots too. Examples being Amitabh-Jaya, Rishi Kapoor-Neetu Singh etc.
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Chanda ki chaandni ka jaadoo
Posted on: February 6, 2009
This is a song that I have listened to for the first time only today. I am not surprised because by now I have got used to it.
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Manmohan man mein ho tumhi
Posted on: February 6, 2009
This movie called “Kaise Kahoon” (1964) is quite unknown to most people. But the music of this movie is quite remarkable . Music director of this movie was S D Burman and he teamed up with lyricist Shakeel Badayuni in this movie.
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Ye kisne geet chheda
Posted on: February 4, 2009
The movie “meri soorat teri aankhen” (1963) was full of some very nice songs. I have already posted two outstanding semi classical songs from this movie- sung by Rafi and Manna Dey respectively.
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Ye laal rang kab mujhe chhodegaa
Posted on: January 30, 2009
This song is indeed the reason why we remember this movie called “Prem Nagar” to this date. The movie, which turned out to be a box office disaster despite boasting of the biggest names of the industry viz Rajesh Khanna and Hema Malini, had a story line that failed to appeal to the movie goers.
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“Prem Nagar” (1974) was a movie where the reigning male superstar and the biggest female star were brought together in the same movie for the first time. Perhaps the hype was too much, or may be the contents were not good enough. Whatever the reasons, this movie failed at the box office despite the presence of Rajesh Khanna and Hema Malini.
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Apni to har aah ek toofaan hai
Posted on: January 25, 2009
S D Burman is renowned for composing some fantastic boat songs. But I have noted that S D Burman, as well as his son R D were the leading exponents, when it came to creating memorable train songs as well.
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Mera sundar sapna beet gaya
Posted on: January 24, 2009
It is a very old song from a movie called “Do bhai” (1947) and this song was sung by Geeta Roy ( later Geeta Dutt). This song made her an overnight sensation.
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“Guide” is a movie whose music was voted as containing the best music among all Bollywood movies, when an Indian magazine polled the industry insiders ( viz singers, lyricists and music directors). Coming from those who themselves create music for Bollywood movies, this was high praise indeed.
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Jeewan ki bagiya mahkegi
Posted on: January 18, 2009
I have mentioned it that Bollywood heroines of 1970s were averse to playing roles of mothers lest they be regarded as over the hill. In fact, they would often refuse roles where they were shown getting married.
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