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.
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 [...]
Posted by: squarecutatul in: ● October 21, 2009
Kishore Kumar as an actor-cum Singer had started to figure in movies in 1950s. In many movies, he was even the hero. New Delhi (1956) was one such movie. One thing that I especially find appealing is the fact that one gets to see Delhi of 1950s in this movie, and that Delhi is so [...]
Posted by: squarecutatul in: ● October 20, 2009
It is one of the iconic songs in Bollywood history, one that I have listened to many a times since childhood. That was in 1970s, and now we are in 2008, and this song was from circa 1950s! Has this song aged, or has it become less known after all these decades ? No chance. [...]
Posted by: squarecutatul in: ● October 11, 2009
For sleeping, you have options like listening to lories ( if you are young), or counting sheep ( if you are not that young), trying to do homework etc. But what about waking up ? There is no lori equivalent of songs to choose from when it comes to waking people up. In its absence, [...]
Posted by: squarecutatul in: ● October 4, 2009
It was Music director S D Burman who gave Kishore Kumar the chance of singing for the then matinee idol Dev Anand starting from Baazi (1951), and how well Kishore Kumar responded to the opportunity. He did a good job, and that enabled him to get a foothold on the industry as a playback singer, [...]