Posted by: squarecutatul on: November 7, 2009
I have posted a couple of songs from “Sazaa” (1951) already, but even I was not aware of this song.
This song is a duet sung by Lata and Talat Mehmood. I can see Dev Anand in the picturisation, but who is the lady lip syncing in Lata’s voice ? As it is, I am [...]
Posted by: squarecutatul on: November 5, 2009
When one listens to old Bollywood songs, then one tends to form an idea about the actor on whom the song must have been picturised. If the movie has a song sung by say Rafi, then one expects it to be sung by the hero of the movie.
Posted by: squarecutatul on: October 24, 2009
Here is a song from “Amardeep” (1958). This was a movie starring Dev Anand, Vyjyanti Mala and Padmini.
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 23, 2009
A female dancer singing and dancing in a club, paying particular attention to the table where the hero is seated was a standard fare in Bollywood movies of 1950s. Geeta Bali, Geeta Dutt and Dev Anand often figured in such songs.
Posted by: squarecutatul on: October 21, 2009
Sometime back, I was wondering about the playback singers who have sung for Dev Anand and I counted about half a dozen different names. Well known names like Rafi, Kishore, Manna Dey, Mukesh, Hemant Kumar, as well as unknown name like Dwijen Mukherji have given playback for Dev Anand. Some people would even like [...]
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.
Posted by: squarecutatul on: October 11, 2009
“Teen Deviyaan” (1965) was for some reason a blindspot for me, and I was not much clued in to its songs. Now I am finding out that quite a few songs, which I enjoyed listening to without knowing about their details were actually from this movie.
Posted by: squarecutatul on: October 11, 2009
This song must be one of the very first songs of its genre namely a party/ club song, where a lady sings in a bar/ club to entertain the customers, and one of the customers is the hero.
Posted by: squarecutatul on: October 10, 2009
“Teen Deviyaan” (1965) is a movie whose songs are somehow under represented in this blog. and this is a movie whose songs have somehow managed to escape my radar.