Posted by: squarecutatul on: November 25, 2009
“Zabak” (1961) was a mythological Arabian Nights kind of movie produced by Homi Wadia. Mahipal and Shyama played lead roles in this movie.
Posted by: squarecutatul on: November 23, 2009
It is often said that one needs to use heavy duty Urdu words to come up with romantic ( as well as other kinds of) songs, and people agree. But the facts are, most of the lyricists in the formative years of Bollywood movie songs were more familiar with Urdu and they created such songs [...]
Posted by: squarecutatul on: November 13, 2009
“Boyfriend”(1961) is a little known movie that had Shammi Kapoor and Madhubala in it ! And Dharmendra too !
Posted by: squarecutatul on: November 5, 2009
“Zabak” (1961) was a movie that is not known to too many people, considering that it was an B grade movie. Its music was A grade, of course.
Posted by: squarecutatul on: November 4, 2009
“Opera House” (1961) , which is a forgotten movie, starred Ajit and B Saroja Devi in lead roles. Since the movie was a B grade movie, its songs did not have the opportunity to get popular because not too many people got to listen to them.
Posted by: squarecutatul on: November 3, 2009
“Opera House” (1961) was a B grade movie in which Ajit and Saroja Devi were the lead actors. I am surprised to notice that I have posted only one song from this movie which had some lovely songs in it.
Posted by: squarecutatul on: October 23, 2009
I have posted three awesome songs from “Maaya” (1961). It turns out that there is another great song in this movie. Here is this song- “Koyi sone ke dil waala koyi chaandi ke dil waala”.
Posted by: squarecutatul on: October 20, 2009
1960 was a decade that saw some memorable qawwalis being created. It is not just Roshan and Ravi who created them, even some lesser known music directors came up with nice qawwalis.
Posted by: squarecutatul on: October 12, 2009
The movie “Jab pyaar kisi se hota hai” (1961) had music by Shankar Jaikishan, lyrics by Hasrat Jaipuri, songs by Rafi and Lata, the lead actress was Asha Parekh. All that this movie needed was Shammi Kapoor.