Posts Tagged ‘Shailendra’
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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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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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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