Posts Tagged ‘Suman Kalyanpur’
Joohi ki kali mere laadli
Posted on: September 29, 2010
“Dil Ek Mandir” (1963) is a movie starring Rajendra Kumar and Meena Kumari. This movie, like most movies of those days, is full of memorable songs.
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Tumhi mere meet ho
Posted on: September 21, 2010
In late 1950s and early 1960s, several comedians were seeking to become heroes in Hindi movies. The names of Johny Walker, Mehmood and Jagdeep readily comes to mind. They all acted as heroes in a few movies each, but keeping a sombre face while acting out serious scenes (viz romantic scenes, sad scenes) was not exactly their strong suit. And that is why most of these ventures ended up in failures.
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Jaa jaa jaa re beimaan
Posted on: September 18, 2010
It is often said that Hindi movie are enjoyed the best when you leave your brain behind. And when it comes to Dara Singh movies, it helps even more if one did not have a brain to begin with. 😀 Dara Singh movies are good brainless entertainment,and they are grade Z gems, as someone lovingly puts it in youtube. Brainless entertainment and grade Z gems- waah ! There cannot be higher “praise” than that for Dara Singh movies !
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Ek dil do hain talabgaar
Posted on: September 17, 2010
Here is a rare and special song from a rare movie called “Darwaazaa” (1954).
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Dil meraa naache thunak thunak
Posted on: September 4, 2010
There are several Hindi movies with grand sounding titles, but here is a very homely kind of a title for a movie. It is called “Mera Ghar Mere Bachche” (1960), which means “My home and my kids”. How very plebian !
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Jaa jaa jaa chhod de o chhaliyaa
Posted on: August 7, 2010
“Kan Kan Mein Bhagwaan” (1963) was a mythological movie, anda small budget movie.Mahipal and Anita Guha, the biggest stars of such movies, had played lead roles in this C grade movie.
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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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Raat suhaani jaag rahi hai
Posted on: August 1, 2010
“Jigri Dost” (1969) is a movie chokefull of awesome songs.With time, the movie as well as its songs have gone into oblivion but listening to these songs again is always a good and pleasant experience.
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Roothe hon sanam to phir kyaa hai
Posted on: July 26, 2010
In Hindi movies, “roothna” (sulking) is the preserve of females, and it is the male of the species who has to indulge in the act of “Manaanaa” (appeasement). I have posted many such songs like this in this blog, but it never occured to me to have a separate category for such songs.Now I have thought of this category called “sulking-appeasing song”.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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