Posts Tagged ‘Sahir Ludhianvi’
Dharmendra and Sharmila Tagore, who share the same birthday (8th December) worked together opposite each other in several movies. One of these movies was “Ek Mahal Ho Sapnon Ka” (1975). This movie apparently did not do well at the box office. But what songs this movie had !
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Raat bhi hai kuchh bheegi bheegi
Posted on: December 6, 2010
“Mujhe Jeene Do” (1963) is a movie with a moving message. It was about the lives of bandits. What lies in store for the bandits who want to get reformed and join the mainstream of society, with same hopes and aspirations for their kids like normal people ? This movie is a moving picturisation on this issue.
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Mehfil se uthh jaane waalon
Posted on: November 16, 2010
After posting four songs for the day, I suddenly realised that today is 16th november, Roshan’s death anniversary. My original plan was to discuss only Roshan songs and a total of five Roshan songs today. I can do that even now, but that would be an overkill. So I am going to discuss two Roshan songs today.
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Andher nagri chaupat raja
Posted on: November 10, 2010
Many of the songs discussed in this blog are well known songs. But in this blog, I also discuss songs that are rare and not known to many people. In fact, this blog may be one of the very few places on internet where such songs may find mention.
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Rajendra Kumar was known as Jubilee Kumar in his heydays and it is obvious that he must be having his huge fan following at that time. personally I was not his fan because he was just befotre my time.
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“Railway Platform” (1955) is a movie which is now known as the debut movie of Sunil Dutt. Apart from that, this movie also has some nice songs in it, including the iconic song Basti basti parwat parwat gaataa jaaye banjaaraa
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Main pal do pal ka shaayar hoon
Posted on: October 25, 2010
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“Kabhi Kabhi” (1976) is a movie whose music was quite unlike the music prevalent in Hindi movies at that time. The music of this movie had a retro feel about it and music lovers liked that. The songs of this movie became popular and they in fact have outlived most songs of that era.
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Ye samaa ye rut ye nazaare
Posted on: October 25, 2010
“Do Kaliyaan” (1968) is one of those movies that I have actually watched (albeit on TV) and the only thing I recall about this movie is that Baby Sonia (now known as Nitu Singh) had played a double role in this movie (and that is why this title called “Do Kaliyaan” viz “two buds”).
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“Waqt” (1965) was a path breaking movie in more ways than one. For one, it was a multistarrer movie, one decade before this term came into circulation. Secondly, it was the movie that set the rules for lost and found movies which became the norm one decade later. In brief, “Waqt” (1965) inspired movie makers like G P Sippy (Sholay, Shaan) as well as Manmohan Desai (Amar Akbar Anthony).
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Hindi movie songs are reputed to be sung by the hero and heroine while running around trees. But what happens when the lady has injured herself and is unable to even walk, let alone run ? Does the hero abandon her and runs around trees with some other lady ? Not if the hero is Sunil Dutt. Sunil Dutt is one hero who would take care of his ladies in their moments of need.
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