Posts Tagged ‘Shakeel Badayuni’
“Mughal e Azam” (1960) was a musical blockbuster and almost all its songs have gone on to become iconic songs. Though I have posted a few songs from this movie, I need to post all the songs from this movie.
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I have mentioned it many a times and I need to mention it again, that many of the well known iconic songs of Bollywood, whatever be their topics, are the creations of Ravi, though many people may not be aware of this fact.
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One big reason why the songs of the golden era are still popular is the lyrics of these songs, which were meaningful and they in fact formed the soul of these songs.
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Ek chaand aasmaan pe hai
Posted on: October 9, 2009
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I had once mentioned that the version of song seen in the movie and heard in the records was often different because they were recorded on two separate occassions. Imagine a great song being recorded not once but twice ! Once for the movie sound track, and once for the record company.
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Zara dekh sanam mera jazba e dil
Posted on: October 9, 2009
People who judge India by Bollywood movies and by its songs, could well assume that boys and girls in India spend most of their times meeting each other and romancing. Having grown up in India, I assure you that the facts are much different from what is depicted in these movies.
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1960 was a year of musical blockbusters. “Chaudhvin ka chaand” (1960) was one such movie. Almost every song from this movie has gone on to become an iconic song.
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Duniya badal gayi
Posted on: October 3, 2009
I am aware that “Babul” (1950) had Dilip Kumar and Nargis in lead roles. So I was confused when I watched this song from “Babul”. I had no difficulty identifying Dilip Kumar singing in Talat Mehmood’s voice, but who was the lady. she looked unfamiliar. And she did not look like Nargis.
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Jaane waale tera Khuda haafiz
Posted on: October 1, 2009
The musical combination of Shakeel Badayuni and Naushad delivered several great songs. “Paalki” (1967) was one of the last such movies which had lyrics by Shakeel Badayuni and music by Naushad.
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Marna teri gali mein
Posted on: September 25, 2009
There are a few people who say that “Shabaab” (1954) was one where Naushad gave his best music. I hope the people who hold this opinion are aware that Naushad was the music director of movies like “Baiju Baawra”, Mughal e Azam” etc as well. There are others who feel that “Baiju Baawra” could be the best creation of Naushad.
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The movie “Dard” (1947) was a movie full of nice songs. The most popular song from this movie was Afsana likh rahi hoon(Dard)(1947),which was sung by Uma Devi (later known as Tuntun).
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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