Posts Tagged ‘Shankar Jaikishan’
Dil se dil takraaye
Posted on: August 27, 2010
When you are young, you only like to listen to “modern” songs and hate listening to old songs calling them boring. Here is a song that was old even by my standards of 1970s when I was growing up. But show me a song that could be more modern than this by now 51 year old song.
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Dilrubaa dil pe tu
Posted on: August 26, 2010
This post is written by Raja, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor of posts to this blog
There are few actors in Hindi cinema of yesteryear who evoke as much passion in film-lovers as Shammi Kapoor. He came into cinema at a time when pathos ruled and emotional tragedies, a la Devdas, were the order of the day. Although he made an effort to fit in, he was thankfully (for all of us) a miserable failure in his efforts.
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Aaja ke intezaar mein
Posted on: August 25, 2010
This post is written by Raja, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor of posts to this blog
When I was growing up in the early 70s, Kishore was easily the dominant male voice in Bollywood. He was everywhere and with every new movie he seemed to only deliver more hits.
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Manoj Kumar who played a patriotic Indian named “Bharat” in his movies from late 1960s onwards played a different “Non-Bharat” kind of role in “Beimaan” (1972). Beimaan means Dishonest and Manoj KUmar played the title role in this movie.
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This article is written by Raja, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor of articles to this blog
I must admit that when I was a young boy, my appreciation of songs was very different from what it is today.
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“Boot Polish” (1953) was a movie based on the plights of orphan. Considering the subject, this movie was bound to have melodrama is it and that is why I am not sure that I would like to watch this movie.
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Dekho mera dil machal gayaa
Posted on: August 18, 2010
Shankar of Shankar Jaikishan promoted Sharda in a big way and this led to considerably difference of opinion between the duo. Sharda had an unconventional voice and she obviously was limited in her range compared to say Lata who was the female singer of choice by default for them till then.
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I just realised that I had not posted this well known song from “Shree 420” (1955) so far. Here is this lovely and cute song.
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Jaan pehchaan ho jeenaa aasaan ho
Posted on: August 16, 2010
This post is written by Greta (Memsaab) a regular visitor of this blog and a fellow enthusiast of Bollywood movie songs
I am very honored indeed to have been asked by Atul to write about this song from the film “Gumnaam.” It is song number 2800 on this blog and I think he has chosen well in representing such a big number (although I am amazed that it’s not been put up here earlier!).
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This post is written by Raja, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie songs and a regular visitor and contributor of this blog
One of the biggest miracles of India has got to be its cultural diversity. A people with so many different languages, so many different customs, different religions still co-exist next to each other and are unified under one umbrella – the flag of India.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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