Posts Tagged ‘Shailendra’
There are many Bollywood movie songs where characters use sophisticated words to express their feelings. Then there are songs where feelings are expressed with simple lyrics.
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Mila hai kisi ka jhumka
Posted on: September 30, 2009
One of the most lovable category of songs are those that I call “mental massage” category. These are basically sweet, melodious songs with simple lyrics and minimal music that do not tax one’s mental faculties and make one feel relaxed .
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“Ek Dil Sau Afsaane” (1963) was a movie starring Raj Kapoor and Waheeda Rehman. It had the usual musical team of Raj Kapoor.
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“Pyaar Mohabbat” (1966) was a movie starring Dev Anand, Saira Bano, Premnath, Shashikala and others.
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Jaa main tose naahin boloon
Posted on: September 25, 2009
As far as Bollywood music lovers are concerned, most of them like songs that are “light” in nature, rather than the heavy duty stuff (viz classical music based). But there are classical music based songs that are so nicely created that one loves to listen to such songs.
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Not much is known about this movie called “Detective” (1958) except that it was a movie starring Pradeep Kumar and Mala Sinha. Searching for more information may yield the additional information that it was a suspense thriller directed by Shakti Samant.
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It is only recently that I have discovered the music of “Ek Gaon Ki Kahaani” (1957). And what music this movie has !
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Jhoome re neela ambar jhoome
Posted on: September 19, 2009
Salil Chaudhary is one music director who believed in quality and not quantity. He worked in very few movies, but he left his stamp in the few songs that he composed.
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Zindagi khwaab hai
Posted on: September 17, 2009
I have posted some 30 songs in this blog that can be categorised as drunkard songs. But still there are many such drunkard songs that remain to be posted.
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In Bollywood movies, music directors tended to create songs based on the range and singing ability of the singers. Singers with lesser range and lesser singing abilities got simpler songs to sing, whereas singers with greater skills were often asked to sing difficult songs.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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