Posted by: squarecutatul on: December 9, 2009
Dara Singh, who was a legend among Indians of 1960s and 1970s became a fairly well known actor in Bollywood movies too. Most of his movies were C grade stuff, scoffed at by the “purists”, but his movies must have been profitable, considering that movies featuring Dara Singh continued to get produced. IN fact, Dara [...]
Posted by: squarecutatul on: November 18, 2009
I have seen many mujra songs in Bollywood movies, and this song is a mujra song, but with a difference. Mujra songs tend to be depressing because the female dancer performing mujra tends to be wallowing in self pity. But this song is different.
Posted by: squarecutatul on: November 12, 2009
Here is another song which I thought I had posted already, but I had not.
Posted by: squarecutatul on: October 1, 2009
The musical combination of Shakeel Badayuni and Naushad delivered several great songs. “Palki” (1967) was one of the last such movies which had lyrics by Shakeel Badayuni and music by Naushad.
Posted by: squarecutatul on: September 17, 2009
I was not even aware of this movie called “Noor Jahaan” (1967). I became aware of this movie only after I got a farmaish for a song of this movie.
Posted by: squarecutatul on: August 31, 2009
“Bahaaron ke Sapne” (1967) was one of the very first movies of Rajesh Khanna. In this movie, a very young looking Rajesh Khanna was paired against Asha Parekh.
Posted by: squarecutatul on: August 20, 2009
After quite a while, here is one more Rafi-Shammi Kapoor song. This song in fact features not only the Hero and the heroine, but the entire gang of their friends ( read sidekicks ).
Posted by: squarecutatul on: July 17, 2009
I was not aware of this song till now. Reading the lyrics, I thought that it must be the “Gora aur Kaala” duet song, but it is a different song and it is from “Ram aur Shyam” (1967).
Posted by: squarecutatul on: July 16, 2009
I have listened to this song and I liked it too, but all this time I was not aware about which movie this song was from.
Posted by: squarecutatul on: July 16, 2009
“Milan” (1967) was the biggest musical blockbuster of the year. Its songs had swept all the popularity charts in existence at that time. ( Well there used to be just a solitary such chart those days).