Posts Tagged ‘Shakeel Badayuni’
Anjaam e muhabbat kuchh bhi nahin
Posted on: April 7, 2011
“Chaar Din” (1949) is a movie starring Shyam and Suraiyya. This movie had some nice songs in it that became good candidates for being played in the “puraani filmon ke geet” on radio ceylon when I was growing up.
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I had mentioned it three days ago that India was in the final of world cup cricket and the nature of songs to be posted by me was going to depend on the outcome of the final. Many readers hoped that they would get to see happy songs in the blog after the final.
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Pardesi se lag gayi preet re
Posted on: April 2, 2011
“Jaan Pehchaan” (1950) is one of the lesser known movies where Raj Kapoor and Nargis paired up. Like the movie, the songs of this movie are also relatively less known.
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I have mentioned it that drunkard songs, in which an actor is seen getting drunk and singing asong is mainly a preserve of male actors. On the other hand, a woman getting drunk and making a spectacle of herself is considered rather unheard of. That is why one rarely finds songs in which female actors are seen singing drunkard songs.
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Tan rang lo jee aaj man rang lo
Posted on: March 20, 2011
Today (20 march 2011) is Holi, one of the major festivals in India. This festival is also one of the most popular festival in Hindi movies as it offers great opportunity for movie makers to show the lead actors and others letting their hairs down and singing and dancing rather more uninhibitedly than usual.
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Though I have heard about movies called “Daag”, I was not aware of a movie called “Bedaag”. But yes, there is indeed one such movie that was released in 1965. Unlike “Daag”(1952) which had Dilip Kumar and Nimmi and “Daag” (1973) which had Rajesh Khanna and Sharmila Tagore,”Bedaag”(1965) did not have the reigning superstar of the day in its cast. This movie had Manoj Kumar and Nanda in lead roles.
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“Paalki” (1967) was the kind of a movie that is popularly described as a Muslim social movie. Such movies typically had good songs which were picturised in a typical manner.
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O pardesi yaad mein teri
Posted on: March 1, 2011
I never tire of mentioning that there are countless musical gems lying there that have been forgotten with time. I keep discovering them quite regularly.
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I have discussed as many as seven songs from “Dillagi” (1949) already in this blog. So I thought that there was no other song left in this movie to be discussed. But I was wrong. There are a few more songs in this movie that are still missing in this blog.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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