Posts Tagged ‘Vishwajeet’
Na ye zameen thi na aasmaan tha
Posted on: April 24, 2009
I am a big fan of Ravi, the underestimated music director of the golden era of Bollywood movie music. He was an extremely prolific music director who began his career in 1950s and worked upto 1990. And he has left us countless great songs, many of them timeless classics. In fact, most iconic songs of Bollywood have been his creations.
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Tumhe jo bhi dekh lega
Posted on: April 22, 2009
I wonder how many movies were there titled as “Majboor” ? The one I knew while growing up was Amitabh Bachchan’s 1974 movie of this name. And it appears that there was a movie by this name sometime in 1940s too. And now I find that there was a 1964 movie of this name too.
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Mera naam Rita Christina
Posted on: April 21, 2009
In Bollywood movies, action takes place mostly in India where everyone speaks Hindi/Urdu. But sometimes the action would take place in the Western counttries as well. There, even the Westerners would speak Hindi/Urdu and the western cabaret dancers would sing a cabaret song full of words like “ishq”, “husn” “haseena” etc. I suppose words like “blonde”,”bombshell” etc were not in use in West those days. 😉
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Ye nayan darey darey
Posted on: April 21, 2009
Hemant Kumar has sung some outstanding songs for Vishwajeet. That way, in my mind, Hemant Kumar-Vishwajeet combination of songs made for as potent a combination as say Rafi-Shammi Kapoor.
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Aao huzoor tumko
Posted on: April 20, 2009
“Kismat” had some superb music composed by O P Nayyar. Though Rafi was not there to sing ( he had his differences with O P Nayyar those days) and Mahendra Kapoor had done a decent job filling in for him. And O P Nayyar had used the voice of Shamshad Begum for a song too.
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kamar patli nazar bijli
Posted on: April 12, 2009
If one watched a bollywood movie in 1960s and 1970s, one was sure to have a Helen dance accompanied by a song. This song will have little relevance to the story line of the movie and Helen will not be found anywhere else in the movie, but her dance was still regarded as a major attraction of the movie.
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O P Nayyar had fixed singing templates for his singers to follow. His female singers needed to sing in Asha Bhonsle style, and his male singers needed to sing in Rafi style. In case one of these singers were not available for recording the song, then the replacement singer was required to sing in the same way.
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Nazar na lag jaaye.. o my love
Posted on: April 10, 2009
In any field of activity, whenever a product succeeds, “me to” products with similar packaging come up, which hope to encash on the popularity of the original. Most of the clones fail, but some of the best clones often succeed, and in some cases, may become as successful as the original too.
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Aankhon mein qayaamat ke kaajal
Posted on: April 8, 2009
O P Nayyar, a headstrong music director who ruled the roost for much of 1950s tended to alienate people even close to him. By the time he was creating the music of “Kismat”, he was not on speaking tems with Rafi and so he used the voice of Mahendra Kapoor in the songs of “Kismat”. Mahendra Kapoor was required to sing Rafi style, and he did a competent job of it.
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