Posts Tagged ‘Shankar Jaikishan’
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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This is a song that I must have heard many a times. It is a timeless classic. And considering that this song is from “Aawaara”(1951) and it is sung by Lata, I took it for granted that this song was picturised on Nargis.
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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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Bollywood movies have songs on many topics, and the most important topic is obviously “love”. Boy is shown falling in love with a girl and is shown expressing his love with a song. The girl will initially disapprove of his attention then begin responding and would be found joining towards the end of the song.
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O Laxmi O Sarsu
Posted on: August 26, 2009
I was neither aware of this movie nor this song. The movie is “Kahin Aur Chal” (1969).
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Iss paar saajan uss paar dhaaren
Posted on: August 26, 2009
I may have heard this song in the past but only in passing. This time I heard it attentively, and found out about its details. I came to know that this song was from “Chori Chori” (1956). Now I wonder just how many great songs were there in “Chori Chori” (1956).
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Yahi hai wo saanjh aur saweraa
Posted on: August 25, 2009
Guru Dutt and Meena Kumari were two individuals who started their careers playing lighthearted sunny characters but then they began to play tragic roles. They got so immersed in such roles that their real lives too became an extension of their reel life tragedy roles.
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“Love Marriage” (1959) was a movie that had some lovely songs. I have been posting the songs from this movie and I have enjoyed listening to these songs.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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