Posted by: squarecutatul on: November 21, 2009
The movie is called “Phir Subah Hogi” (1958) which was a serious movie. Moreover, the actors, singers, music director and lyricist of this movie are also known for creating serious stuff. And most songs of this movie are indeed serious songs.
Posted by: squarecutatul on: November 19, 2009
Dilip Kumar, Raj Kapoor and Dev Anand were the three biggest male stars of Bollywood movies for nearly two decades. Considering that song and dance plays such important roles in Bollywood movies, including the movies in which these actors acted, it is interesting to note that Raj Kapoor and Dev Anand successfully dodged dancing in [...]
Posted by: squarecutatul on: November 16, 2009
For long, I had posted just one song from “Teesri Kasam” (1966). Then I realised that all the songs of this movie are outstanding and I needed to post all of them.
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.