Posts Tagged ‘Shankar Jaikishan’
In 1960s, there used to be a category of song that could be called “Radio” song. In this, the hero or heroine would sing a song and the heroine/ hero, as the case may be would listen to the song attentively.
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Man Mohana bade jhoothe
Posted on: March 23, 2009
“Seema” (1955) is a movie that launched Nutan’s career as a tragedy queen. I am sure Nutan may not have bargained for a career as a tragedy queen when she began her Bollywood career in early 1950s after becoming the first ever filmfare Miss India. Yes, Nutan won the Miss India award in 1952 in its inaugural edition.
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I have heard this song many a times. Knowing who the singer was no problem, and knowing that the song was from “Mere Huzoor” was no problem too, but that is all I knew about this song.
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“Nai Dilli” (1956) was a movie starring Kishore Kumar and Vyjyanti Mala. This movie to my mind was a landmark movie in my mind because one could see the New Delhi of that time and amuse oneself by comparing that with the present day New Delhi. Many present day landmarks of New Delhi were non existent or looked very different those days.
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Dil ki nazar se nazron ki dil se
Posted on: March 21, 2009
“Anaadi” was a movie starring Raj Kapoor and Nutan. There were some very nice songs picturised on them in this movie.
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Ai mere dil kahin aur chal
Posted on: March 19, 2009
In my younger days, “Daag” to me meant the Rajesh Khanna movie released in 1970s and the songs of this movie were big hits.
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Jaa jaa jaa mere bachpan
Posted on: March 18, 2009
Apart from the more popular songs of “Junglee”, I do not have much idea about other lesser known songs. For example, I was not aware that “Kashmir ki kali hoon main” is song from “Junglee”. One would expect it to be from “Kashmir ki kali”, is it not ?
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Tu pyaar ka saagar hai
Posted on: March 16, 2009
Meena Kumari is regarded as the first great tragedy queen of Bollywood movies. But in reality that crown rightfully belongs to Nutan. Nutan had begun playing tragic roles as early as 1955 when Meena Kumari was still playing happy bubbly roles.
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Mujhe kitna pyaar hai tumse
Posted on: March 15, 2009
Shammi Kapoor tended to act opposite heoines half his age, but he has also acted opposite at least one heroine in his age group. And that is Mala Sinha. In fact, Mala Sinha had acted opposite Shammi Kapoor as early as in 1959 when he was finding his feet as the actor he subsequently became in 1960s.
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Pahle murgi huyi thhi ke andaa
Posted on: March 14, 2009
“Which came first, chicken or egg”, this is the question. And who else to delve into such profound philosophy than our beloved Kishore Kumar.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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