Pyaar kiyaa nahin jaataa ho jaataa hai
Posted by: squarecutatul in: ● March 1, 2010
Shankar Jaikishan were the biggest names among Bollywood music directors for nearly two decades from 1950s to 1960s. It was in 1970 that Jaikishan died. Meanwhile “Mera Naam Joker” flopped big time. All these facts meant that Shankar Jaikishan musical duo was disbanded and moreover Raj Kapoor dropped Shankar Jaikishan ( then effectively only Shankar) from his subsequent movies.
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Dekha maine dekha
Posted by: squarecutatul in: ● February 22, 2010
I accidentally stumbled upon this song yet again, and I was immediately reminded of 1972 when this song was very popular with most listeners. This song was regularly played in Radio Ceylon in the aaphi ke geet farmaishi programme. Its farmaish was sent not only from Jhumri Tilaiyya, but from other farmaish happy places as well.
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Kah do koyi na kare yahaan pyaar
Posted by: squarecutatul in: ● February 22, 2010
There are a large number of Bollywood songs in existence that express the feelings of jilted lovers. The degree of frustration depends upon the degree of jolt that the spurned lover gets from his beloved.
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Yoon hi tum mujhse baat karti ho
Posted by: squarecutatul in: ● February 15, 2010
Rajesh Khanna and Mumtaz star in this movie. Rajesh Khanna in fact has a double role in this movie.This movie was released in 1970 when everything that Rajesh Khanna touched turned to gold.
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Dil ne ye kaha hai dil se
Posted by: squarecutatul in: ● February 15, 2010
While searching for songs of Dhadkan (1973), I stumble upon Dhadkan (2000) and I discovered this superb song- “Dil ne ye kaha hai dil se”.
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Zindagi bhar nahin bhoolegi wo barsaat ki raat
Posted by: squarecutatul in: ● February 15, 2010
I have listened to this song many a times, and for a change I knew which movie this song is from. The fact that the title of the movie appears in the song has certainly helped there.
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Meri muhabbat jawaan rahegi
Posted by: squarecutatul in: ● February 15, 2010
I have just realised that when it comes to love songs in Bollywood, the lyrics do not believe in making small talk, rather they make big talk. The lover would not say such small things like “I love you”, rather he would talk on a much larger scale like how his love is forever, how his love can move montains, etc.
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Door door tum rahe pukaarte ham rahe
Posted by: squarecutatul in: ● February 12, 2010
“Chalte Chalte” was a movie released in 1976 that is now mainly remembered for Bappi Lahiri’s music.
Bappi Lahiri, who had make people take notice of him in his debut movie “Zakhmee” this time made people sit up and take notice. The title song of this movie became an iconic song and other songs also became popular.
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Ae dil hai mushqil jeena yahaan
Posted by: squarecutatul in: ● January 20, 2010
While watching very old movies, one big attraction for me is to watch how places looked like in those days. It is especially for this reason that I watch movies of 1950s and earlier.
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Sur na saje kyaa gaaun main
Posted by: squarecutatul in: ● January 20, 2010
“Basant Bahar” is a movie that was based on the subject of music itself, like “Baiju Baawra” before it. As can be expected, such movies were full of songs. And all these songs have easily become immortal. There are so many such songs in each of these movies hat one is just amazed. And one thinks about it, all these songs were composed more than half a century earlier. This is what is called longevity. And these songs will not get forgotten anytime soon.
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