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.
Posted by: squarecutatul in: ● November 5, 2009
I have already posted one memorable nostalgic song from this movie sung by Mukesh and picturised on Dharmendra. This movie was in fact full of memorable songs. Quite a few of such songs were sung by Mukesh for Dharmendra.Here is another such memorable song.
Posted by: squarecutatul in: ● October 20, 2009
Usha Khanna, the sole female music director in Bollywood movies in the last 50 years remained confined to lesser movies for most of her career. But every once in a while, she tended to rise above the mediocrity of the movies she gave music in.
Posted by: squarecutatul in: ● October 16, 2009
When one talks of tragic actors, what are the names that come to mind ? Guru Dutt and Meena Kumari ? It may be news for people, but in the first decade of their career viz 1950s, they were both known for playing positive, energetic ,bubbly characters oozing with zest for life. The crown for [...]
Posted by: squarecutatul in: ● October 16, 2009
This song is one of the oldest in this blog, and one of the most cherished one. Noorjahan makes her debut in my blog with this song. Rafi figures in this song too. This was one of the earliest hit filmy song of Rafi. Except this song and singers, most other things about this song [...]
Posted by: squarecutatul in: ● October 9, 2009
Younger music lovers of Bollywood music may not have heard of music director Shamji Ghanshamji. And very little information is available on him in internet. Readers may have noticed that I have used the word him, and not they for Shamji Ghanshamji. Yes, it was one single individual, who had named himself that way, perhaps [...]
Posted by: squarecutatul in: ● October 9, 2009
Kishore Kumar has sung lots of songs that could be described as happy, romantic, comedy, sad etc. But there was one category of song where Kishore has not figured too many times. And this is the category of ghazal. Here is a song that could be called a ghazal. If it is not so, plese [...]
Posted by: squarecutatul in: ● October 9, 2009
Some day I will make a list of all the sad songs of Mukesh, and then I will analyse them to find out which song expresses which kind of sadness. I may be able to identify scores of types of sadnesses listening to Mukesh’s songs, and then I will present my thesis to an university [...]
Posted by: squarecutatul in: ● October 9, 2009
“Bandini” was a movie that had some of the saddest songs one can come across. Each of these songs could move the audience, not only when the movie was released, but even today, some 45 years later. Circumstances force Nutan to leave her home without informing anyone, and she leaves her home one night. Of [...]
Posted by: squarecutatul in: ● October 8, 2009
People like me tend to classify bollywood songs simply between sad and happy songs. But there could be so many variations to each of these themes. For instance, sad songs could have so many shades. Mukesh has sung so many sad songs, and they all are different from each other.