Posts Tagged ‘Sharmila Tagore’
This post is written by Raja, a regular contributor of posts to this blog and a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movies and its music
In the history of Hindi film songs – and we are talking then about several thousand songs – there have been a few really, really, REALLY popular ones. There have been many very good ones but as we know, not all good songs end up being popular with the masses. One need look no further than many of Manna Dey’s songs which were of extremely high quality but whose popularity was largely limited to the classes, not the masses.
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I have posted as many as seven songs from “Kashmir Ki Kali” (1964) and one may be excused for assuming that there may not be any more songs left to be posted from this movie. But then one would underestimate the calibre of music directors of those era, if one made such an assumption.
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I thought that I had already posted the title song of “Yakeen” (1969) in this blog. But I was mistaken.
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“Saawan Ki Ghataa” (1966) wasa movie starring Manoj Kumar and Sharmila Tagore. This movie had music by O P Nayyar.
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Huyi shaam unkaa khayaal aa gayaa
Posted on: August 3, 2010
“Mere Hamdam Mere Dost”(1968) was a movie starring Dharmendra and Sharmila Tagore. This movie had some nice songs in it.
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I have posted several songs from “An Evening in Paris” (1967). Here is a lesser known song from this movie, at least as far as I am concerned. I was not aware of this song till a few hours ago, and I became aware of this song only when I was looking at the list of old farmaishes given by my readers.
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It was in 1960s that Indians were first treated to views of countries outside India and the Indian audiences were left gasping at the sight of the world, viz Japan, Europe etc and the progress that they had made vis a vis India left a lasting mpression in Indian minds, not that it led to any progress or introspection among Indians. They were just happy to enjoy these foreign locales on the movie screens.
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I recall listening to this song in my younger days. But as was the case with me for most songs, the only thing I knew about this song was what I heard, and no more. In other words, my knowledge of this song was confined to the fact that the song was sung by Rafi. Yes, I could identify Rafi’s voice even then. But I was not aware that songs had lyricists and music directors too. I used to think that the singer did everything !
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Naina hain pyaase mere
Posted on: March 20, 2010
“Aavishkaar” (1973) was a low budget movie with a different (and realistic) story line. Such movies were called “new wave” movies, and later “art” movies and such movies struggled to get released in movie halls.
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Balmaa khuli hawaa mein
Posted on: March 9, 2010
“Kashmir Ki Kali” (1964) is an out and out entertainer of an movie. Shammi Kapoor and debutant Sharmila Tagore, not to speak of Pran, Anoop Kumar and co make this movie a great fun to watch.
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