Posts Tagged ‘Shailendra’
Maataa O maataa jo tu aaj hoti
Posted on: September 8, 2009
In Bollywood movies, most sad songs are sung by grown ups. Typically a lady, who cannot meet her beloved sings a sad song, or a gent, thinking that his beloved is a “bewafa”, takes to singing a sad song.
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Raghuwar ke gun gaawen re ham
Posted on: September 7, 2009
“Ab Dilli Door Nahin” (1957) is remembered now a days for its immortal song “chun chun karti aayi chidiyaa, daal ka dana laayi chidiyaa”. From the songs of this movie, this movie apparently was a story of kids who are orphans and live in an orphanage.
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I have posted several songs from “Kaala Bazaar” (1960), and they are all wonderful songs. Here is another song in the same league from this movie.
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Helen is mostly seen in Videshi naach, but here she is seen dressed in desi outfits and dancing a desi dance. The occasion is a wedding, where she is performing.
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In India, the three unifying things for Indians are Indian Railways, Bollywood movies and Cricket. We have had several rail related songs in Bollywood movies, but it is a great surprise that cricket related songs are conspicuous by their absence, even though cricket is as big a craze among Indians as movies, and it has become more so in the last few decades.
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Bechain dil khoyi si nazar
Posted on: August 31, 2009
“Yahudi”(1958) was a mythological movie of foreign origin. The movie is of the Roman era of Marcus and Brutus. But I do not think there may have been too much of an authenticity in the portrayal of characters in this movie, even though this movie was made by the respected Bimal Ray.
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In 1950s, Shankar Jaikishan tended to use Lata’s voice for all female playback songs. It is alright if they had to use her voice for one actress, but there were occasions when more than one actress in the same movie lip synced to Lata’s voice. Fortunately, they did not do so in the same song.
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Ho jabse mili tose ankhiyaan
Posted on: August 29, 2009
I stumbled upon this superb song just now. This song is from a forgotten movie called “Amaanat” (1955) which had Bharat Bhooshan and Chaand Usmaani in lead roles. This song is a duet sung by Geeta Dutt and Hemant Kumar. And what a wonderful song this is. Listening to this song just once is enough to make one like this song.
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I had posted a superb comedy song from “Parivaar” (1956) in the past which was sung by Kishore Kumar and picturised on himself. I now find that this movie, apart from this comedy song, had some superb semi classical songs sung by Lata and Hemant Kumar.
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More ang lag jaa baalmaa
Posted on: August 27, 2009
I have listened to this song many a times, but I had no idea which movie this song was from.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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