Posts Tagged ‘Waheeda Rehman’
Dekho dekho jee gori sasuraal chali
Posted on: April 1, 2011
There are some Hindi movie songs that become so popular that they get adopted as part of life. For instance, many prayers in Hindi movies have actually become school prayers as well as prayers during religious festivals. Then there are lullabies in Hindi movies that have become integral part of the growing up process of generations of kids in India. Then there are patriotic songs from the movies that are hugely popular and are invariable played during days of national importance ( viz.independence day and republic day).
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Mere ghar aayi ek nanhi pari
Posted on: March 29, 2011
This article is written by Lalitha, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie songs and a regular visitor and contributor to this blog.
Loris, or lullabies, have always had a special place in Indian life, and many of these are sung by mothers and grandmothers as they rock the baby to sleep in the old fashioned cradle formed by hanging a long piece of cloth from a hook in the ceiling or in a regular cradle. Some loris have also been sung by men, generally widowers, and these tend to be melancholy ones, but there are some exceptions. In Carnatic music, the raga Neelambari is the one used to induce sleep and most lullabies in the South are sung in this raga.
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“Paalki” (1967) was the kind of a movie that is popularly described as a Muslim social movie. Such movies typically had good songs which were picturised in a typical manner.
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Ho munna jaayegaa baazaar
Posted on: March 10, 2011
“Man Mandir” (1971), which is a new movie by the standards of this blog, starred Waheeda Rehman and Sanjeev Kumar. This movie, by most indications was a flop. This movie had some nice songs in it, though, which were popular at that time. I loved these songs though at that time I was not aware that those songs were from this movie. I have already discussed two such songs from this movie in this blog.
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Bataa doon kyaa laanaa
Posted on: December 21, 2010
I was very surprised to see this song being given as a farmaaish because I thought that this song was discussed long back. On checking, I found that I was wrong of course. Perhaps I may have planned to discuss this song but I did not.
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Raat bhi hai kuchh bheegi bheegi
Posted on: December 6, 2010
“Mujhe Jeene Do” (1963) is a movie with a moving message. It was about the lives of bandits. What lies in store for the bandits who want to get reformed and join the mainstream of society, with same hopes and aspirations for their kids like normal people ? This movie is a moving picturisation on this issue.
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Main kho gayaa yahin kahin
Posted on: December 3, 2010
In Hindi movies, lovestruck Hero/Heroine are shown bursting into love songs at the drop of a hat, at every opportunity.
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There are songs that are best enjoyed as part of the movie, and then there are songs that are best enjoyed in isolation. Here is a song that falls in the later category, viz this song is best enjoyed as a stand alone song. This song is from a movie called “Paalki” (1967) and this story was as retrograde and illogical as any that Hindi movies can subject their followers to.
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Sainyya chhod de bainyya
Posted on: November 1, 2010
In Hindi movies, we have teasing songs that are typically sung by male actors. I just realised that if there is a teaser, then there has to a a teased as well. and there are songs sung by teased as well. the teased lady would typically sing a song with words like “chhodo meri kalaayi”, “koi dekh legaa” etc etc.
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When I was a kid, I thought that most Hindi movie songs were love songs, and there were few songs of other categories. But now I know better. One can see that the Hindi movie songs fall into several categories. One song itself can belong to several categories.
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