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: ● December 19, 2009
“Suraj” the biggest musical blockbuster of the year 1966 was full of extremely popular songs.
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 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 5, 2009
Rajendra Kumar was known as Dilip Kumar clone, and he was quite a successful one at that too. In fact, Rajendra Kumar was popularly known as “Jubilee” Kumar because most of his movies used to celebrate at least Silver jubilee (25 weeks in a movie hall) and even more.
Posted by: squarecutatul in: ● November 3, 2009
“Dil ek Mandir”, regarded as one of the celebrated melancholic movie in Bollywood industry is full of sad songs to match, almost all of which went on to become very popular and in fact evergreen. I have already posted a couple of songs from this movie in this blog. This movie had one nice song [...]
Posted by: squarecutatul in: ● October 11, 2009
It is often said that Madan Mohan made the best use of Lata’s voice. And he certainly did so. But what about this song ? The music of this song is by S D Burman. Listen to this song and tell me, has Lata sung any better, and sounded any better, than she does in [...]
Posted by: squarecutatul in: ● October 9, 2009
Here is a song that is barely known to people like me who actually lived through the era when this movie was released. The reason why this song is unknown are many, for one, this movie, “Talassh” had the misfortune of being released simultaneously with Aradhana. The songs of Talaash, though great in their own [...]