Posts Tagged ‘Shatrughan Sinha’
Tumhaare bin guzaare hain kai din
Posted on: October 8, 2011
“Aatmaram” (1979) is a recent movie bty the standards of this blog, but this movie is nearly as obscure as many movies of much older vintage. The reasons are not far to seek. The movie was a smaller budget movie with actors like Shatrughan Sinha, Vidya Sinha,Bindiya Goswami,Amjad Khan etc in it. The movie was directed by Sohanlal Kanwar and the movie sank without a trace.
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I have often tried to compile a list of male and female actors who acted together in movies before they married each other. One can think of names like Dev Anand- Kalpana Kartik, Shammi Kapoor- Geeta Bali, Randhir Kapoor-Babita, Rishi Kapoor-Neetu Singh, Amitabh Bachchan-Jaya Bhaduri, Dharmendra-Hema Malini etc.
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Samjhautaa ghamon se kar lo
Posted on: July 24, 2010
This title song/ theme song from “Samjhauta” (1973) has gone on to become an iconic song. I was under the impression that I had posted this song already, but farmaishes from several readers made me realise that I had not posted this song so far.
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Zindagi imtihaan leti hai
Posted on: June 18, 2010
“Naseeb” (1981) is a movie that came when the golden era of the Bollywood movie was coming to an end. This movie, and especially the songs in this movie symbolises this fact.
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This song was among the most popular songs of 1970s, especially among pre teens like me. But I had no inkling which movie this song was from, though I guessed that this song must be from some well known movie.
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“Aa gale lag jaa” (1973) was a run of the mill movie, but it caught public imagination because of this particular song. This song had two versions. The grown up version was sung by Kishore Kumar and it was picturised on Shashi Kapoor and Sharmila Tagore as a “nature song” -as it was picturised on hills. The other version of the song was a party song and it had a kid singing in addition to Kishore Kumar. Kishore Kumar once again sings for Shashi Kapoor whereas the kid Sushma Shreshtha sang for Master Tito.
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Honth hain tere do laal heere
Posted on: April 23, 2009
O P Nayyar was one music director who reached the top without using Lata’s voice. He groomed Asha Bhonsle and he was responsible for her singing style.
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“Dost” (1974) had one iconic song viz “gaadi bula rahi hai” which has been posted in this blog already.
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This song is a forgotten gem from 1970s. I call it a gem on several counts.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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