Posts Tagged ‘Yogesh’
Maanaa mere haseen sanam
Posted on: December 9, 2009
There was a time when I was an avid movie watcher. Those were the days when one could watch movies only at movie halls. I used to wonder whether we will even be in a position when we will be able to watch movies of our choice at home, any time of the day. My hopes were stuff of science fiction in 1970s when I thought about it, but now, three decades onwards, it has become a reality.
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Guzar jaayen din din din
Posted on: September 19, 2009
I have mentioned in the past that Salil Chaudhary’s music was about quality rather than quantity. Just about every song that he created was a labour of love. He spent lots of time getting inspiration for his tunes. When he was in search of inspiration for new tunes, he would go to his kitchen a cook a delicacy (Illish fish, perhaps ?) and he would come up with his tunes.
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Nain hamaare saanjh sakhaare
Posted on: September 18, 2009
I had read a lot about this song, but I first listened to this song just a few days back.
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I have posted a lovely song from “Sakhi Robin” (1962) in this blog. As it turns out, there are other nice songs in this movie as well.
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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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Hrishikesh Mukherji watched a Japanese movie in a film festival and he was so influenced by that movie that he made it into a Bollywood movie called “Anand”(1970) which won critical acclaim and was liked by moviegoers as well. In fact, Hrishikesh Mukherji was so enamoured by this theme that he himself remade his own remake into “Mili”.
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Zindagi kaisi hai paheli haay
Posted on: December 24, 2008
Hrishikesh Mukherjee saw a Japanese movie in a film festival and he was so impressed with that movie that he not only made it into “Anand”, but he also later remade his own remake ( with the protagonist a female this time) into “Mili”.
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1970s saw the emergence of small budget family entertainers sans fights and violence. Amol Palekar and Vidhya Sinha were two of the leading “stars” of such movies. Two of their most memorable movies together were “Rajnigandha” and “Chhoti si baat”. These two movies can infact be treated as extensions of each other, that is how much these two movies had in common.
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- In: "saawan" song | Amitabh Bachchan songs | Amitabh Bachchan songs by Kishore Kumar | Happy song | joie de vivre | Kishore Kumar solo | Kishore Kumar songs | Lata solo | Lata song | Lyrics by Sudhir | Lyrics contributed by readers | Multiple version song | needing each other | Rain song | Romantic song | Simply joy | Songs of 1970s (1971 to 1980) | Songs of 1979 | Translation by Sudhir | Translations by readers | Yearwise breakup of songs
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This movie “Manzil” was one of the unsuccessful movies of Amitabh Bachchan, but this one song from this movie, viz “Rimjhim gire saawan” has become the stuff of legends already. It is one of the first songs that comes to mind when one thinks of rain songs.
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