Posts Tagged ‘Yesudas’
Kaa karoon sajni aaye naa baalam
Posted on: August 10, 2010
I have posted two songs from “Swaami” (1977) in the past. I was quite surprised at the enthusiastic response of my readers towards these songs. I was not aware that the songs of “Swaami” would be so popular with my readers.
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I thought that I had posted this song earlier, but I was wrong. I had posted other songs from this movie but not this one.
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Maana ho tum behad haseen
Posted on: February 28, 2010
“Toote Khilaune” (1978) was a flop movie and rightly so. Who in his right minds would like to go and buy tickets to watch nobodies like Shekhar Kapoor and Shabana Azmi in lead roles ? Neither I nor anybody else, of course.
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“Dada” (1978) was a B grade movie which was a remake of a 1960s C grade movie called “Faisla”.
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Jaaneman jaaneman tere do nayan
Posted on: May 22, 2009
Most Bollywood movies are make believe ones where the main characters lead dream lives that are far removed from reality.
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Kahaan se aaye badra
Posted on: May 12, 2009
“Chasme baddoor” (1981) was a small bugdet non mainstream movie. This kind of movie, sans fights and sans lost and found storylines had their own fan following. There were several movies like this in 1980s that did reasonably well.
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Khushiyaan hi khushiyaan ho
Posted on: May 12, 2009
“Dulhan wah jo piya man bhaaye” (1977) was a runaway hit of the year. In fact, this was a bigger hit than “Sholay” in the city where I was growing up.
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Jab deep jale aana
Posted on: April 15, 2009
“Chitchor” was a Rajshree productions movie that introduced Amol Palekar, Zareena Wahab and Vijayendra Ghatge to Bollywood. Yesudas, who had sung a few songs for Salil Chowdhary made his mark as a playback singer in Bollywood with this movie.
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Rajshri productions had hit upon a sureshot formula for success in the decade of 1970s. They would make movies for a small target audience who wanted to watch love stories full of nice songs and heartwarming plots. This was a winning formula because love stories by definition required new faces ( and as such Rajshri Productions saved money on hiring big name actors). In these movies, story and music were the real stars and Rajshri productions had built up a small loyal audience for their movies.
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“Saawan Ko Aane Do” was a musical blockbuster that contained one amazing song after another. Most of these songs were sung by Yesudas and this movie to my mind constituted the finest hour that Yesudas enjoyed in his singing career in Bollywood. The music director was Rajkamal whereas different songs were written by different and mostly little known lyricists.
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