Posted by: squarecutatul in: ● January 1, 2010
Shammi Kapoor on the screen, Rafi as the playback singer, O P Nayyar as the music director. This deadly composition came together for “Kashmir ki kali” and the result was an all time great musical extravaganza.
Posted by: squarecutatul in: ● November 18, 2009
I read many times that Bollywood movies would have songs where the boy and girl would be shown singing songs running around trees. Honestly, I have not seen any proper song fulfilling this description. On the other hand, I have seen dozens of songs where boy and girl are shown singing elsewhere, viz on car, [...]
Posted by: squarecutatul in: ● November 11, 2009
1972 was the year when many Bollywood movie makers decided to hitch the bandwagon turned Juggernaut of Kishore Kumar- RD Burman combination. And the result were some movies that had music by R D Burman and songs by Kishore, but the movies themselves were no great shakes.
Posted by: squarecutatul in: ● November 5, 2009
“Safar” was a Rajesh Khanna movie of 1970. One thing that is noticeable about this movie is its songs. Quite a few of its songs became very popular. Another fact that I have noticed is that these songs are sung by different singers. Nothing unusual about different singers singing in a movie. But what is [...]
Posted by: squarecutatul in: ● October 24, 2009
“Kati Patang” was a movie based on a Gulshan Nanda novel of the same name. Gulshan Nanda incidentally was a very popular Hindi novelist. “Jheel ke us paar” was another of his novels that was made into another movie.
Posted by: squarecutatul in: ● October 19, 2009
I have mentioned earlier that S D Burman tended to sing one song per movie and that one song was usually played at the beginning on the movie while the credits would roll in on the screen. In some cases, S D Burman song would be played at the end while “The End” screen was [...]
Posted by: squarecutatul in: ● October 5, 2009
Boat songs, where the singer sings about maajhi and the boat were the speciality of S D Burman as a singer and music director. But here, his son R D Burman has created music that his father must have been proud of . And the voice of Kishore Kumar is nothing short of magical. It [...]