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 10, 2009
“Chhalia” (1959) had many songs which were sung by Lata (for Nutan) and Mukesh (for Raj Kapoor). But the final song of this movie was sung by Rafi and it was picturised on Raj Kapoor.
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: October 24, 2009
I thought that I had posted songs from “Sharada” in the past. It turns out that I was confusing “Sharada” with “Sadhana”. Yes, those days we had movies with names like “Sharada”, “Sadhana”, “Kalpana” etc which were also the names of some well known actresses. Incidentally, the actress with the same name was nowhere to [...]
Posted by: squarecutatul on: October 17, 2009
I have posted half a dozen songs from “Baawre Nain” (1950) already and there are more to come.
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
Mukesh is traditionally regarded as the voice of Raj Kapoor, but that was not always the case. In his earlier movies, it was Rafi who often sang for Raj Kapoor.And we all recall that Manna Dey had famously sung for Raj Kapoor in “Chori Chori”.