Posted by: squarecutatul on: November 9, 2009
I have posted three songs from “Chhaliya” (1959) in the past. I decided that I should watch the movie. When I watched it, I found that this movie has a few songs that I never knew about.
Posted by: squarecutatul on: November 8, 2009
“Teesri Kasam” (1966) was a labour of love created by Shailendra. It had some lovely songs in it which were penned by Shailendra himself.
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: October 21, 2009
“Anokhi Ada” to me was a movie of 1970s starring Jeetendra and Vinod Khanna, but I came to know that there was another movie of this name in 1948 too. Why did these oldtimers choose the same name as a new movie and then had some boring music in that- this is what I used [...]
Posted by: squarecutatul on: October 6, 2009
When “Neki aur Badi” (1949), the first movie of Roshan as a music director flopped, the sensitive music director was so disappointed that he reportedly wanted to commit suicide. Kidar Sharma, who gave him his first break, gave him his second break too, in “Baawre Nain” (1950). The songs of this movie became popular and [...]
Posted by: squarecutatul on: October 2, 2009
Roshan had given music in 51 movies before his untimely death in 1967. A perusal of the songs posted in this blog tells me that I have posted songs from majority of these movies with music by Roshan. If I keep posting songs, soon I will have music from all Roshan movies in this blog.
Posted by: squarecutatul on: September 29, 2009
“Ek Dil Sau Afsaane” (1963) was a movie starring Raj Kapoor and Waheeda Rehman. It had the usual musical team of Raj Kapoor.
Posted by: squarecutatul on: September 27, 2009
One tends to associate Raj Kapoor’s movies of 1950s and 1960s with Shankar Jaikishan’s music, but there are quite a few Raj Kapoor movies even in those days which had music by other music directors.
Posted by: squarecutatul on: September 25, 2009
I was not aware of this movie called “Kinaare Kinaare” (1963), but what a musical bonanza this movie turns out to be !