Posts Tagged ‘Zarina Wahab’
Tumhe geeton mein dhaaloongaa
Posted on: November 21, 2011
By 1970s, Rajshree Productions had hit upon a cost effective winning formula. In their movies, they would ensure that the story and music was the king and actors were non entities. They would hire newcomers in lead roles and make them work for pittance. As for music, they would hire music directors who were prepared to work for less fee. Their standard music director throughout 1970s was Ravindra Jain, who doubled up as the lyricist too. His music was the single biggest reason for the success of these movies as far as I am concerned. personally I felt the same way that a mouse felt when he heard the music of the pied Piper. whenever I heard the music of a Rajshree Productions movie, I felt like going to the movie hall showing that movie.
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Ye saaye hain ye duniyaa hai
Posted on: July 24, 2011
I know about many older movies, but frankly I had never heard of this movie called “Sitaaraa” (1980). I became aware of this movie and its songs only because of the lyrics of this song sent by Prakashchandra.
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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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Beparwaa bedardi paglaa deewaanaa
Posted on: July 8, 2010
In 1970s, when action movies had become the mainstream movies in Bollywood, (after being looked down upon as C grade movies in the past decades), movies with non violent storylines had taken the back seat.
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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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“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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Tujhe dekhkar jag waale par
Posted on: March 14, 2009
“Saawan ko aane do” was Rajshri productions movie where Arun Govil (later of “Ram” fame) got the opportunity of acting as an hero opposite another Rakhshi productions regular viz Zarina Wahab.
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In Bollywood movies, one associates Maajhi songs with S D Burman and R D Burman. And these songs are mostly sung by S D Burman and Kishore Kumar.
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Do deewaane shahar mein
Posted on: October 25, 2008
Here is a fantastic song from “Gharonda”. Neither the movie, nor the song were mainstream ones by the standards of 1977, but this song and this movie struck the right chords in the hearts of the audience.
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