Posts Tagged ‘Shailendra’
There are many well known songs from yesteryears that are not yet discussed. In some cases, I am aware about this fact. In other cases, I was under the impression that these songs were already discussed.
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Aajaa ree aa nindiyaa tu aa
Posted on: September 9, 2011
When I saw the lyrics of this song (sent by Prakashchandra), I felt that this song was discussed long back. But despite my thorough checking, I drew a blank. So here was another well known song that had somehow remained undiscussed all these days, while I was under the impression that I had already discussed it.
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I have discussed as many as four songs from ‘Meri Soorat Teri Aankhen” (1963). Each of these songs are timeless classics. After discussing each one of them, I felt that there was no need or room for any other great song in the movie.
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Normally when I discuss a song by mistake that I have already discussed in the past, I realise it as soon as I post it. But while discussing a Yahudi song,, I was in a hurry and I had lowered my guard , so an already discussed song went through. But the alert regular Mr Prakashchandra quickly caught this lapse and informed me.
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This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
aaj phir jeene ki tamanna hai
aaj phir marne ka irada hai
No better words to express the exuberance and the playfulness of a liberated spirit. A poet’s dream and life’s illustration in reality, all anxieties and caution thrown to the winds and the desires to live the life the way it should be. These words from the pen of Shailendra, and numerous other such gems, of all moods and flavors, embellish the Hindi film screen for 160+ films across two decades. A poet par excellence, Shailendra was a rebel spirit meshed in a romantic mould, whose understanding and expression of human emotions and situations is second to none.
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“Yahudi” (1958) is a Hindi movie based on an alien story. And the way that the foreign tale has been told Indian style is interesting.
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Maalik tere jahaan mein
Posted on: August 30, 2011
“Ab Dilli Door Nahin” (1957) is a moving tale about orphan kids. The movie and its songs are in fact so poignantly picturised that I cannot bear to watch the movie. For that matter, I can rarely bear the watch the picturisation of a few songs too.
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Rulaa ke gayaa sapnaa meraa
Posted on: August 24, 2011
I can expect the kind of reactions that readers of this blog will express on reading the title of the song. “What ? this song was not yet discussed ? How could you not discuss this song till now ?” etc etc.
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This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
The energy and the vitality that Shammi Kapoor brought on to the screen was unprecedented and unparalleled. Starting off with Jeewan Jyoti in 1953, there was a fair number of films, almost 20 or so, that he did between 1953 and 1957. In many of the films in this period, he was trying to emulate his elder brother, Raj Kapoor. He did attract some attention with films like Rail Ka Dibba, Laila Majnu, Gul Sanobar etc., but somehow the histrionics and the on screen presence in those roles did not come across as a comfortable performer. In hind sight, one can say, that there was a different personality hidden inside that was impatient to explode, but was not finding the right expression.
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Sooraj zaraa aa paas aa
Posted on: August 17, 2011
Shammi Kapoor found his true calling in “Tumsa Nahin Dekha” (1957). The formula and pattern of his future Shammi Kapoor movies were more or less defined in this movie itself. But some more things were yet to be finalised.
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