Posted by: squarecutatul in: ● November 29, 2009
Rajesh Khanna’s superstardom owes a good deal to the fact that Kishore Kumar was the playback singer for him. In fact, the next superstar viz Amitabh Bachchan too owes it to Kishore Kumar’s voice for much of his popularity.
Posted by: squarecutatul in: ● November 18, 2009
This song is a very popular song from my childhood. As happened with me most of the time, I would have no clue about such songs except the name of the singer. And with time I would forget all about such songs as they went out of circulation.
Posted by: squarecutatul in: ● November 14, 2009
Here is yet another song from 1970s which I liked a lot those days, without having much details about it, except that it was sung by Kishore Kumar. It went “koyi maane ya na maane jo kal tak the anjaane, wo aaj hamen jan se bhi pyaare ho gaye”.
Posted by: squarecutatul in: ● November 12, 2009
I have posted a song ( “darpan ko dekha toone jab jab kiya singaar”) from “Upaasna” earlier in this blog which was picturised on Feroz Khan and Mumtaz and was sung by Mukesh. Here is another song from the same movie.
Posted by: squarecutatul in: ● November 11, 2009
Here is one of the nice songs from this movie. Inclusion of this song calls for introducing a new tag viz “bicycle” song. Actually in this song the girl rides on the front bar of a bicycle, which to my mind is the most romantic use of a bicycle that Bollywood movie makers have devised. [...]
Posted by: squarecutatul in: ● November 5, 2009
There are many songs that become popular in its time and then go on to achieve evergreen status. And then there are many songs that achieve considerable popularity during their time, only to get forgotten with passage of time.
Posted by: squarecutatul in: ● November 4, 2009
Kishore Kumar has sung some wonderful comedy songs in his long career. This blog has featured some of them. There are many great comedy songs of Kishore Kumar that remain to be posted.
Posted by: squarecutatul in: ● October 25, 2009
“Mera gaon Mera Desh” was the most well known “daaku” movie before “Sholay” came about. In fact, “Sholay” is inspired in parts by “Mera Gaon Mera Desh”.
Posted by: squarecutatul in: ● October 25, 2009
I have been a big fan of this song over the years. Apart from knowing that this song is sung by Kishore Kumar, I have been blank about other details. It is only recently that I came to know that this song is from a movie called “Chhoti Bahu” released in 1971. Even this detail [...]