Posts Tagged ‘Waheeda Rehman’
Main idhar jaaun yaa udhar jaaun
Posted on: October 3, 2010
“Paalki” (1967) is what is popularly described as a Muslim social movie. Like most movies of this genre, this movie too boasts of some superb songs in it.
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Mehboob mere mehboob mere
Posted on: September 16, 2010
I thought that I had already posted this well known song from “Patthar ke sanam” (1967). But when I checked up, I realised that this song was not yet posted.
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The farmaish of this song from “Aadmi” (1968) was given by Lalitha today.This is a kind of song where getting the lyrics right is a straightforward task without much challenge and so here is the song, in double quick time.
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Kaisaa jaadoo balam toone daaraa
Posted on: August 14, 2010
If one just goes through the lyrics of the song, this song may not appear to be much of a song. But just listen to this song. This song is sung so nicely that the song grows up on the listener and remains with him /her for several hours. That is what Lalitha felt about this song and mentioned while giving farmaish for this song. And when I listened to this song, I realised this fact myself.
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“Prem Pujaari” (1970) seemingly had songs for all occasions. Here is a lovely heartwarming romamtic song from this movie.
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I have posted several Lori (Lullaby) songs in this blog and I keep discovering new ones regularly. Here is another “new” lullaby that I was previously unaware of.
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Tere mere sapne ab ek rang hain
Posted on: August 1, 2010
“Guide” (1965) is a landmark movie in more ways than one.Its music was ethereal, and the industry insiders (singers, lyricists, music directors etc) voted this movie as musically the best Hindi movie of all times. Listening to the songs of this movie, one can see why. The songs of this movie has cast a magical spell over its listeners right from the time they became available some 45 years ago, and that magic spell continues even today, even across generations.
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I have mentioned in the past that the Bollywood movies of the past used to have their get togethers not in hotels, but in their palatial houses that every hero/ heroine used to possess. Their palatial house used to have a big hall for the purpose of these get together. And in these occasions, the hero/ heroine was required to sing a song. A grand piano was kept in the hall near the big staircase (that led to the upper floor)for the purpose of this song. The hero/ heroine, after initial nakhra, would get seated on the piano and then sing a song accompanied by music.The music incidentally would bear little resemblence to the music that normally comes out of a grand piano.
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Raah bani khud manzil
Posted on: April 28, 2010
I have posted three songs from “Kohraa” (1964). Each of these songs are immortal songs that one can listen to any number of times.
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Meri baat rahi mere man mein
Posted on: November 30, 2009
“Saahib Bibi Aur Ghulam” (1962) is a landmark movie in the history of Bollywood movies. The story, the plot, the acting- all these were top class. Public as well as critics appreciated this movie.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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