Posts Tagged ‘Shailendra’
Party songs are one of the more common kind of songs in Hindi movies. Every mainstream movie tended to have a party song in it.
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I am aware of movies called “Aag” and “Aah” which were produced in late 1940s and early 1950s/ respectively. Another movie of a similar sounding title, viz “Aas” was also produced in the same era. This movie had Shekhar and Kamini Kaushal in it.
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Josh e jawaani haay re haay
Posted on: November 3, 2010
“Around The world” (1967) is a movie that was full of nice songs, but the movie flopped (predictably, since it was a different kind of a movie) and as a result, the movie and its songs were gradually forgotten with time.
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1950s was the decade when Hindi movie music found its feet and the rules of Hindi movie songs were established.
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Baat badhti gayi khel khel mein
Posted on: October 31, 2010
I am not much aware about this movie called “Insaan Jaag Uthaa” (1959). I just found out that this movie had Sunil Dutt and Madhubala in lead roles. I was not aware that these two had acted together in a movie.
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I was not aware of this movie called “Chaar Deewaari” (1961) but this is one movie that has nice songs in it.
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Badi der bhai badi der bhai
Posted on: October 28, 2010
I have discussed six songs from “Basant Bahaar” (1956) in the past and all those were iconic songs. I thought that there were no more songs, and certainly no more iconic songs left in the movie to be discussed.
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When I was a kid, I thought that most Hindi movie songs were love songs, and there were few songs of other categories. But now I know better. One can see that the Hindi movie songs fall into several categories. One song itself can belong to several categories.
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Kisi ne apna banaa ke mujhko
Posted on: October 5, 2010
Though I have discussed over three thousands songs in this blog already, there are still a large number of great songs that are yet to be discussed. The long list of readers’ farmaish gives us a good indication of just how many great songs are yet to be covered. There are so many great songs still to be discussed, but there is only so much time in a day, that one can devote to their discussion.
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Joohi ki kali mere laadli
Posted on: September 29, 2010
“Dil Ek Mandir” (1963) is a movie starring Rajendra Kumar and Meena Kumari. This movie, like most movies of those days, is full of memorable songs.
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