Posts Tagged ‘Waheeda Rehman’
Suno ji suno hamaari bhi suno
Posted on: November 19, 2009
Dilip Kumar, Raj Kapoor and Dev Anand were the three biggest male stars of Bollywood movies for nearly two decades. Considering that song and dance plays such important roles in Bollywood movies, including the movies in which these actors acted, it is interesting to note that Raj Kapoor and Dev Anand successfully dodged dancing in their movies.
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Sajanwaa bairi ho gaye hamaar
Posted on: November 16, 2009
For long, I had posted just one song from “Teesri Kasam” (1966). Then I realised that all the songs of this movie are outstanding and I needed to post all of them.
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“Teesri Kasam” (1966) was a labour of love created by Shailendra. It had some lovely songs in it which were penned by Shailendra himself, excepting two. This song is one of the two songs that have been written by Hasrat Jaipuri.
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In the world in general and in India in particular, it often so happens that a person’s value is not appreciated during his life time. But when he departs, rich tributes are paid to him and his creations, which never sold during his life start selling like hot cakes. The beneficiaries fully capitalise on the newfound sealeability of the works of the departed soul.
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Paan khaaye sainyaa hamaaro
Posted on: October 25, 2009
I notice that I have posted only one song from “Teesri Kasam” (1966) so far. This movie is a goldmine of songs that have gone on to become classics.
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I have mentioned it many a times and I need to mention it again, that many of the well known iconic songs of Bollywood, whatever be their topics, are the creations of Ravi, though many people may not be aware of this fact.
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One big reason why the songs of the golden era are still popular is the lyrics of these songs, which were meaningful and they in fact formed the soul of these songs.
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Ek chaand aasmaan pe hai
Posted on: October 9, 2009
- In: "chaand" song | "Get together" song | "Piano" song | Duet | Mahendra Kapoor songs | Multiple version song | Party song | Rafi -Mahendra Kapoor duet | Rafi songs | Songs of 1960s (1961 to 1970) | Songs of 1968 | Talat Mehmood - Rafi duet | Talat Mehmood songs | Yearwise breakup of songs
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I had once mentioned that the version of song seen in the movie and heard in the records was often different because they were recorded on two separate occassions. Imagine a great song being recorded not once but twice ! Once for the movie sound track, and once for the record company.
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1960 was a year of musical blockbusters. “Chaudhvin ka chaand” (1960) was one such movie. Almost every song from this movie has gone on to become an iconic song.
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“Solva Saal” (1958) was a lovely movie based loosely on “It happened one night”. And “Solva Saal” had great songs to boot !
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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