Posts Tagged ‘Shashi Kapoor’
This post is written by Raja, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie songs and a regular visitor of this blog
There is rarely an excuse required in Hindi movies for a song. Birthday or wedding celebration parties (with the ubiquitous piano), the “tribal” dance scenes, club dances, hero-heroine scenes out in beautiful natural surroundings, the pining scenes and the mujra scenes – these are all well-established occasions waiting for a song to happen.
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Ham to jhuk kar salaam karte hain
Posted on: July 14, 2010
When “Fakeera” (1976) was released, I pooh poohed it as a B grade movie. Even the reviews of this movie in magazines seemed to bear me out that the movie was no great shakes.
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Pardesiyon se na ankhiyaan milaanaa
Posted on: July 8, 2010
I think I need to create another artificial category of songs, viz. “songs that I thought were already posted but I was wrong” category.
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Aapne yoon hi dillagi ki thi
Posted on: June 8, 2010
Recently I had discovered this movie called “Mehndi Lagi Mere Haath” (1962) and I had posted a song from that movie.
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Kankariyaa maare karke ishaare
Posted on: June 5, 2010
I have barely heard the name of this movie called “Menhdi Lagi Mere Haath”(1962). I plead not guilty for being unaware of this movie. My defence is that this movie had Shashi Kapoor and Nanda in lead roles and that is a strong enough reason for a normal movie to end up as an obscure movie.
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Late 1960s was when Bollywood movie music was at its zenith. The quality and quantity of great songs those days was just mind boggling. Many great songs created those days found themselves to be marginalised and elbowed out in this stiff competition. No one has really chronicled all the great songs of those years, but I am sure that the number of such songs must be in several hundreds, if not in thousands.
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I have listened to this song many times and liked it, but all this while I had no clue about its details. This is one of those songs that have gone on to get implanted on the psyche of those who grew up listening to this and other songs of those days.
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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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Pyaar to ik din honaa thaa
Posted on: May 1, 2010
I had vaguely heard about this movie called “Ek Shrimaan Ek Shrimati” (1969) but I was not aware of this song. I heard (and watched) this song for the first time just a few hours ago.
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Jawaan jaaneman haseen dilruba
Posted on: March 27, 2010
I like to listen to old songs as is obvious from the songs posted here. But what about the present generation ? They obviously listen to the contemporary music. But it is for people like us to make them aware of the musical treasures of the old movies.
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