Posts Tagged ‘Usha Khanna’
Bade hain dil ke kaale
Posted on: July 29, 2010
In Bollywood movies of 1950s and 1960s, we had “teasing” songs where the hero would tease the heroine, often too nastily in my view and get away with it, unlike how it is in real life in India, where “eve-teasing” is a serious offence.
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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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Dil deke dekho dil deke dekho
Posted on: November 22, 2009
When one thinks of Shammi Kapoor, one invariably thinks of Rafi, Hasrat Jaipuri and Shankar Jaikishan. There are many people who in fact may well think that they were together with Shammi Kapoor right from the beginning of Shammi Kapoor phenomenon.
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Raahi mil gaye raahon mein
Posted on: September 15, 2009
“Dil Deke Dekho” (1959) was one of the earlier Shammi Kapoor movies where Shammi Kapoor was seen with his tradmark mannerisms.
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Kaun ye aaya mehfil mein
Posted on: September 14, 2009
This song is neither written by Hasrat Jaipuri nor composed by Shankar Jaikishan. But this song sounds like a Shammi Kapoor song, and it looks like a Shammi Kapoor song, because other ingredients are very much there. Rafi is the singer, Asha Parekh is there, and most important of them all, Shammi Kapoor himself is there in this song.
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This song as well as its movie is as obscure as a movie and a movie can get. “Flat no. 9” (1961) is the name of the movie.This movie is obviously a C grade movie which had Ashok Kumar, Saeeda Khan, Jagdish Sethi (?),Dinesh Kumar Tiwari (?),Helen etc in its cast.
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Here is a song from a lesser known movie called “Ek Paheli” (1971).
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“Shabnam” (1964) was a movie where Mehmood was in lead role opposite Vyjyanti Mala. I have no idea how the movie fared, but the songs of this movie were outstanding, as I have discovered.
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“Dada” (1978) was a B grade movie which was a remake of a 1960s C grade movie called “Faisla”.
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Ye toone kyaa kahaa
Posted on: June 25, 2009
If this song is not known to too many people then the listeners cannot be blamed. This song is from a C grade movie called “Insaaf”(1966).
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