Posts Tagged ‘Shankar Jaikishan’
Madhosh hawa matwaali fizaa
Posted on: April 1, 2009
In Bollywood movies, title of the movies are often given in Hindi or English, and that was especially true for very old movies of say K L Saigal vintage.
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Here is a song which I remember listening to in my younger days, though I never could find out those days which movie this song was from. That is how it was with loudspeaker songs those days. Unlike radio songs, they would not announce the name of the movie before playing such songs. 😉
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Mitti se khelte ho
Posted on: March 28, 2009
I have posted a better known song song from “Patita” (1953) in this blog. But now I have realised that even the lesser known songs from this movie are quite nice to listen to.
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Dil ki girah khol do
Posted on: March 27, 2009
“Raat Aur Din” (1967) was the last time Nargis acted in a Bollywood movie.
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Roun main saagar ke kinaare
Posted on: March 25, 2009
C H Atma was a devotee of K L Saigal who would sing in Saigal’s voice. All these days, I thought that he was a contemporary of Saigal, but no, it was not. C H Atma came into the scene after the death of Saigal.
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Tum hi tum ho mere jeewan mein
Posted on: March 24, 2009
I found it interesting that the same Shankar Jaikishan, who were the regular music directors of Raj Kapoor were the regular music directors of Shammi Kapoor as well. But while SJ would use Mukesh ( and sometimes Manna Dey) for Raj Kapoor and create hit songs, they would create hit songs with Rafi for Shammi Kapoor.
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I listened to this song just now for the first time. And I was mesmerised.
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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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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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