Posts Tagged ‘Shashi Kapoor’
When India won the world cup on 2nd april 2011, it was a great feeling for millions of Indian cricket fans and they celebrated late into the nights and well into the next day and the next. The fact that the final was played on saturday and there were two days of holidays on the following days (Sunday being the normal holiday and monday being Indian calender’s new year day), people had enough time to celebrate and get over the hangover.
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I have discussed as many as five wonderful songs from “Waqt” (1965) in the past and yet this song was not one of them ! It just goes on to prove my point that this movie, in addition to being a multi starrer, was a musical blockbuster too.
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Bhool saktaa hai bhalaa kaun
Posted on: March 1, 2011
“Dharmputra” (1961) was a movie with a difference as it was a movie with a message made on a socially relevant topic. The fact that the movie did not do well does not detract from the relevance of the message.
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Ye mere andhere ujaale na hote
Posted on: February 6, 2011
With Hindi movie songs of the golden era, finding unknown gems in easy. Just look at the songs of any forgotten movie or look for less popular songs from better known movies. And more often than not, one will come up with a good collection of great unknown songs on a regular basis.
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I have discussed some well known lullabies from Hindi movies in these pages. Most of such lullabies (or lori as they are called in Hindi) were created in 1950s and 1960s.
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Akela tujhe jaane naa doongi
Posted on: December 14, 2010
I listened to this song for the first time only just now this evening. And what a fantastic song it is !
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Hamse hoti muhabbat jo tumko
Posted on: November 30, 2010
“Muhabbat Isko Kahte Hain” (1965) is a movie starring Shashi Kapoor and Nanda. Most people may not be familiar with the movie, but the songs of this movie are wonderful songs.
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Raju ka hai ek khwaab
Posted on: November 12, 2010
Here is a song that I had never heard before. I became aware of this song only because of the farmaish for this song.
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I was neither aware of this movie called “Ye Dil Kisko Doon” (1963) nor this song from the movie. But the obscurity of this movie is easily explainable when you find out who the lead actor of this movie is. It is Shashi Kapoor- enough said. 😀
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