Posted by: squarecutatul in: ● August 8, 2010
“Sachcha Jhootha”(1970) had two Rajesh Khannas in it. One would sing hit songs, and the other would move around with shady characters.
Posted by: squarecutatul in: ● February 15, 2010
Rajesh Khanna and Mumtaz star in this movie. Rajesh Khanna in fact has a double role in this movie.This movie was released in 1970 when everything that Rajesh Khanna touched turned to gold.
Posted by: squarecutatul in: ● January 1, 2010
“Mera Naam Joker” was a labour of love for Raj Kapoor and he had made this movie with great hopes and expectations. Unfortunately, the story was ahead of its times and the Indian movie watchers were not ready for such movies in 1970. The movie flopped and Raj Kapoor suffered great losses as a result.
Posted by: squarecutatul in: ● November 19, 2009
After watching every song of “Johny Mera Naam”, I have described that song as the best song in the movie, only to say the same thing about the next song from the movie. I have already posted a few songs from this movie ( two to be precise) and just about every song is so [...]
Posted by: squarecutatul in: ● November 12, 2009
“Johny Mera Naam” was a musical blockbuster. Just about every song from this movie became very popular. I have already posted one song from this movie. Here is another very popular song from this movie.
Posted by: squarecutatul in: ● November 12, 2009
With this song, I introduce a new tag viz “choodi” song. The word “choodi” dominates this song. In this song, Dev Anand and Zaahida are seen seated behind a car, with our ageless Dev Saab singing this song “choodi nahin mera dil hai dekho toote naa”.
Posted by: squarecutatul in: ● November 11, 2009
This movie had an ageing ( read already aged) Dev Anand paired against the rising star Hema Malini. The movie turned out to be a hit. The story line was quite engrosing and the movie was shot in exotic places like Nepal and elsewhere.
Posted by: squarecutatul in: ● November 11, 2009
Rafi has sung hundreds of absolutely iconic songs. It is diffcult to keep track of all of them. I am posting them in this blog one by one. Hopefully I will have all such songs in this blog in future. And I am sure that it is going to be a sizeable number running into [...]
Posted by: squarecutatul in: ● November 10, 2009
I may regard myself as a bollywood music buff, espdecially of songs circa 1970 or so. But there are still songs from that era which I never heard when they were first released.
Posted by: squarecutatul in: ● November 6, 2009
“Do Raaste” was one of the earlier hits of Rajesh Khanna. This movie, like most hits of Rajesh Khanna, had many hit songs. In fact, I am coming round to the view that many movies of those days became hits thanks to their music and the credit went to the Hero, often undeservedly. There are [...]