Posts Tagged ‘Verma Malik’
Kali se nazaaron se bahaaron se
Posted on: June 18, 2012
This blog is like a long distance journey which is going on and on. We are passing milestones after milestones on a regular basis. We do not stop at the milestones, rather we zip through them at high speed and continue our onward journey.
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The regulars of the blog know it by now that I miss no opportunity to gloat about my pets. And such opportunities present themselves in the form of songs featuring dogs and cats. My pets seem to have become popular, guazing by the fact that regulars tell me about various dog songs that they come across.
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“Raftaar” (1975) was a movie that was not quite A grade, nor it was an entirely B grade movie. In 1970s, such movies, which were neither here nor there tended to have Vinod Mehra and Mausami Chatterji in them as the lead pair. Put another way, they were poor producer’s Dharmendra-Hema Malini.
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I have discussed songs from “Taqdeer” (1943) as well as “Taqdeer” (1967) in this blog. It turns out that there was a movie with this title in 1950s too.
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Hamsafar ho hamsafar
Posted on: January 30, 2012
Hindi movies has one genre of song that I call Villain’s den song. In this song, hero or his accomplices enter villain’s hideout in disguise while singing a song. Another genre of song related to villain’s den song is “diversion” song. In this a female accomplices sings and dances and the villains minnows are easily lured by her, and that allows other accomplices of the hero to gain access to villain’s hideout.
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Tere sang pyaar main nahin todna
Posted on: January 18, 2012
“Naagin” (1954) is the original Naagin movie and this movie proved to be the definitive “Naagin” movie of all time. Its “been” music became the gold standard for the music of all snake movies.
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Regulars may have noticed that I posted three songs on the first of january 2012 early in the morning and then I did not appear on the blog again for the next 30 hours or so. I had an extremely hectic and tiring 30 hours during which I was unable to log on to internet.
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Ye saal ki aakhhri raat hai
Posted on: December 31, 2011
There are songs for various occasions, like festivals, and also for certain days, viz the first day of the month, but I was not aware that there was a Hindi movie song for the last day of the year too.
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On the occasion of Rafi’s birthday, I have discussed a variety of songs of many genre whose lyrics were contributed by different contributors. So, going by that trend, here is another Rafi gem from yet another forgotten movie.
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“Changez Khan” (1957) is mainly remembered today for the iconic song from this movie viz. Muhabbat Zinda rahti hai(Changez Khan). But we in this blog explore the lesser known songs of a movie as well. So far we have discussed three songs from this movie.
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