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: ● December 5, 2009
This song is a forgotten gem from 1970s. I call it a gem on several counts.
Posted by: squarecutatul in: ● December 5, 2009
It was one of the earliest movies of Manoj Kumar’s career, and here he is paired with Sayeeda Khan.
Posted by: squarecutatul in: ● December 1, 2009
“Tan man dhan sab hai tera” was a song that I heard many a times in 1970s, without getting to know any details about this song. I could make out that the singer was Mukesh, but that is all I knew about this song.
Posted by: squarecutatul in: ● November 29, 2009
I have posted two songs from “Bambai ka Babu” in this blog, and readers will agree that both of them were great songs. But as far as Binaca geetmala of 1960 was concerned, the most popular song from this movie was yet another song viz ” Chal ri sajni ab kya soche”.
Posted by: squarecutatul in: ● November 29, 2009
Here is a duet from “Sangam” picturised on Raj Kapoor and Vyjyanti Mala. The people involved in creating this song are the usual suspects, viz Shankar Jaikishan, Shailendra, Mukesh and Lata. This song is a party song, and this movie seemed to have quite a few party songs, I do not know why.
Posted by: squarecutatul in: ● November 27, 2009
Sonik and Omi who were mama and bhanja acted as assistants to many music directors viz Madan Mohan etc. It was in later half of 1960s that they started out as independent music directors.
Posted by: squarecutatul in: ● November 25, 2009
I know that a song sung by two singers ( typically one male and one female singer) is called a duet or “dogaana”, but what about a song sung by three singers ? Anyone has any idea ? Is it called a “tigaana” or a “triet” ?
Posted by: squarecutatul in: ● November 20, 2009
Feroz Khan’s “Dharmatma” was one movie which had a story line based on Afghani background. This movie was lapped up by its target audience and I am told that this movie became very popular in Afghanistan.
Posted by: squarecutatul in: ● November 19, 2009
I have listened to this song many a times, and I liked this song very much. Not only I knew that this song was sung by Mukesh, I was also aware that the movie was called “Raaste ka pathar”.