Posts Tagged ‘Shankar Jaikishan’
Har nazar mein sau afsaane
Posted on: May 25, 2009
This movie called “Shabnam” (1964) is a hotchpotch of Arabian Nights, Zorro etc. Those days, comedians were trying their luck acting as heroes. Here Mehmood plays the hero, but just like Jagdeep, Mehmood too failed to click as a hero.
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I thought I had already posted this song. It is only when I checked up that I realised that I had posted two other songs from this movie, but not this one.
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TV serial makers these days tend to take the title of some old movie and use it as the title of their serials. “Saas bhi kabhi bahu thi”, for instance, was a movie of the same name in 1970. Similarly, “Hare kaanch ki choodiyaan” was a movie of 1967.
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Albele sanam tu laaya hai kahaan
Posted on: May 22, 2009
Sharda had an interesting kind of voice, which Shankar of Shankar Jaikishan fame had tried hard to project as an alternative voice to Lata.
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Mere mehboob tere dam se hai duniya
Posted on: May 22, 2009
In the past, I have posted a song from a 1970 movie called “Bhai Bhai”. This movie had Sunil Dutt and Asha Parekh in lead roles.
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When I listen to this song, I feel enthralled, almost without fail. What a feel good song this one is !
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I have not watched this movie, but I know for sure that this movie “Aayi Milan Ki Bela” must have been a big hit, going by the quality and popularity of its songs.
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Aa gale lag jaa mere sapne mere apne
Posted on: May 9, 2009
When I was a kid, wearing a swimming costume used to be a big deal for Bollywood actresses. Wearing such costumes was considered against the Indian culture and was considered tantamount to exposing. Thus we used to read interviews from virtuous actresses saying that they would never wear such revealing dresses in their movies.
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Falsafa pyaar ka tum kyaa jaano
Posted on: May 5, 2009
If you want to make someone else to see your point of view then what do you do ? Start telling her that she is wrong and she is dumb ? In fact this song takes precisely that kind of approach.
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Ham hain to chaand aur taare
Posted on: May 5, 2009
This song from “Main Nashe mein hoon” (1959) is a “tonga” song, where the actors are seated on a tonga/ victoria/ tamtam ( whatever it was called) and sing this song.
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