Posted by: squarecutatul in: ● January 1, 2010
“Samjhauta” was a movie that has been forgotten by now. And it is unfortunate that its songs have been forgotten too. The movie has not one but two great songs, one sung by Rafi, and another by Kishore Kumar, and unfortuntely both songs are difficult to come by, be it their video or just audio. [...]
Posted by: squarecutatul in: ● December 18, 2009
Dimple Kapadia made her debut in 1973 with “Bobby”. The success of this movie should have seen her landing many assignments and launch her career. Instead, she got married to Rajesh Khanna, and she was lost to Bollywood.
Posted by: squarecutatul in: ● December 5, 2009
The movie “Goonj Uthi Shehnaai” has so many evergreen songs that one loses count. I have posted one of them in my blog so far, and there remains another half a dozen or so songs from this movie that deserve to be posted.
Posted by: squarecutatul in: ● December 1, 2009
Kishore Kumar is known for singing happy songs bubbling with joie de vivre. But that is not all. He could sing sad songs just as well. In fact, he has sung some wonderful sad songs reflecting different shades of sadness.
Posted by: squarecutatul in: ● November 27, 2009
Sonik and Omi who were mama and bhanja acted as assistants to many music directors viz Madan Mohan etc. It was in later half of 1960s that they started out as independent music directors.
Posted by: squarecutatul in: ● November 27, 2009
While watching the picturisation of Bollywood songs, I have observed a few things which we are used to, but which are actually funny, if you think about it.
Posted by: squarecutatul in: ● November 23, 2009
When I began to listen to farmaishi programmes on Radio, I would pay close attention to the details about the song that were mentioned by the announcer.
Posted by: squarecutatul in: ● November 22, 2009
“Samjhauta” was a movie that went unnoticed. Many people may not even have heard of this movie or its songs. Personally I heard its title song viz “samjhauta ghamon se kar lo”, but I have not been able to locate its video.
Posted by: squarecutatul in: ● November 22, 2009
Considering that it is Shailendra who wrote the lyrics and Shankar Jaikishan who composed the music, it could as well be Mukesh singing for Raj Kapoor, but here it is Kishore Kumar singing for himself in “Rangoli”.