Posted by: squarecutatul in: ● November 29, 2009
“Dil ne phir yaad kiya” was a fantastic musical blockbuster. I have already posted the title song of this movie in this blog.
Posted by: squarecutatul in: ● November 29, 2009
Ring tones has become a big business after the advent of mobile phones. In India, ring tones of movie songs are very popular. Though many people have new songs as their ringtones, some people like old songs as their ring tones as well.
Posted by: squarecutatul in: ● October 20, 2009
“Apna Desh” was a movie that appealed to majority of movie goers. It had almost every thing that the movie going janta wanted. In those days, movie going public were undergoing a change of taste. Movies where hero sang sad songs and got bashed by the villains were proving unpopular. People wanted the heroes of [...]
Posted by: squarecutatul in: ● October 19, 2009
There are many instances when songs from obscure movies went on to become evergreen. This song from a barely remembered movie called Shagoon (1964) is one such song. I have listened to this song and I liked it too, but I had no other information other than the fact that the male voice belonged to [...]
Posted by: squarecutatul in: ● October 16, 2009
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.
Posted by: squarecutatul in: ● October 16, 2009
Though 1970 was a decade when action movies had begun to dominate, there were small time movie makers who produced small budget family entertainers sans fights and action. Rajshri Productions, the Basus ( Basu Bhattacharya and Chatterji), Hrishikesh Mukherji and some South India producers were the ones who produced such movies. Though these movies lacked [...]
Posted by: squarecutatul in: ● October 16, 2009
Here is a very catchy song from a by now forgotten movie called “Banphool”. Kishore Kumar sang this song with gutso. Lyrics were written by Anand Bakshi and the music was typical racy Laxmikant Pyarelal tune. How do I classify this song ? There are a few songs in this blog that I call “car [...]
Posted by: squarecutatul in: ● October 16, 2009
Here is a nice song from a 1980 small budget movie called “Ek baar phir”. Most people involved in this song were relatively small time artists. An upcoming Anuradha Paudwal of pre T-series vintage was the female voice and the male voice was Bhupinder Hazarika, who was around for two decades but barely got to [...]
Posted by: squarecutatul in: ● October 16, 2009
Rajesh Khanna on screen and Kishore Kumar giving playback on the composition of Laxmikant Pyarelal- it was a recipe for some memorable bollywood movie songs. In addition, this recipe also has Mumtaz singing in the voice of Lata.