Songs : Lyrics, Melody and Video?
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Songs : Lyrics, Melody and Video?
How many times has it happened that you stumble upon one of your favourite hindi movie songs on youtube or some other site and after watching the video you wish you hadn’t watched it?
Why is it that best of the directors end up making you feel unsatisfied when it comes to directing a song?
But there are a few songs that I watch again and again. I have selected some 10 songs from them (listed here in no particular order). Songs in which the video complements the beauty of the words and the melody. I have tried to pick songs of different moods, different times and different directors even though I believe that some directors like Bimal da deserve more than one referral.
Let me begin with one of my favourite directors and one of my favorite movies. Bimal da and Bandini.
Song: Abke Baras bhej (Bandini, Director: Bimal Roy)
Singer: Asha Bhosle
Music: S.D.Burman
Lyrics: Shailendra
First of all, about the song. It’s one of the saddest songs I have heard in my life. I never cry while watching movies not only because a lot of times they fail to touch me but also because I find myself unable to cry in company of other people. But this song, just the song without the context of the movie, managed to bring tears in my eyes the very first time I watched it on TV.
The song starts with a woman at a distance with her back on the camera, looking down and a very solid looking jail wall in front of her. Next moment she turns and the camera zooms out to show the woman who is singing. The song continues with very little movement on the screen. The girl dressed in jail clothes sings with a serious face but no tears, no over-acting. Women sitting outside and inside the cell, Nutan looking at the wall, everything is done aesthetically. The best part is when the camera focuses on the old woman sitting with her back resting on a tree. If this scene doesn’t make you sad, nothing ever will!
Song: Na jao saiyaan (Sahib Biwi aur Ghulam, Director: Abrar Alvi)
Singer: Geeta Dutt
Music: Hemant Kumar
Lyrics: Shakeel Badayuni
I don’t know whether it’s Meena Kumari’s beauty, screen presence and acting, Geeta Dutt’s intoxicating voice or excellent direction that makes this song so special.
Bade ghar ki bahu getting drunk and doing absolutely everything to keep her husband from going to a prostitute. Look at Meena Kumari’s expressions when she is singing “main aaj tumko na jaane dungi, jaane na dungi”. I am not surprised that people consider this as one of her best performances. If I remember correct, the song is followed by a scene with some very brilliant acting by Meena Kumari.
Imdb tell me that Abrar Alvi directed only one movie in his life (he wrote many). I wonder why.
Also, in the song, watch out for the part where she is throwing flowers on Rehman. Who thought of that?
It’s a beautiful song picturised equally beautifully on screen.
Song: Pyaar hua Ikraar hua (Shree 420, Director: Raj Kapoor)
Singer: Manna Dey and Lata Mangeshkar
Music: Shankar-Jaikishan
Lyrics: Shailendra
The eternal love song. I heard, that while rehearsing for the recording of the song, Raj Kapoor kept insisting that there was something wrong with the song. He asked Nargis to come over and they enacted the entire sequence in the studio with Manna Dey and Lataji singing. They perfected it and then recorded it. He already knew how he wanted the song to look on the screen and he wanted the music and the singing to fit in with his imagination. No wonder that the final product looks so good.
No, Rajkapoor’s Charlie Chaplin act and Nargis’s over-acting in the begining do not spoil the mood at all. The rain, the umbrella and the almost empty roads. This is one song which, I am sure, will look very ugly in colour. You have to watch it in Black and While.
Songs: Wo subah kabhi to aayegi and Cheen-o-arab hamara (Phir Subah Hogi, Director: Ramesh Saigal)
Singer: Mukesh
Music: Khayyam
Lyrics: Sahir Ludhiyanvi
Wo subah kabhi to aayegi…do I need to say anything about the song? Picturized on RajKapoor and Mala Sinha. There is almost no camera movement. The camera focuses on these two people all the time (except for a small shot at clouds). They do not try to emote every word or bring extra tears in their eyes or extra wrinkles on their forehead. I love the part when Mala Sinha starts singing and Raj Kapoor slowly looks down at her.
Cheen-o-arab hamara..picturized on the streets of Mumbai, shows millions of people sleeping on the footpath and outside the station. It somehow feels makes me feel that I am actually there, at that place. Raj Kapoor is walking in the night from some place in Mumbai to Bori-Bandar (CST, I guess) to find a place to sleep. People are sleeping outside the station, coolies waiting for customers and a young man is sitting under the light reading a book! student/unemployed youth. The song ends on an optimistic note with Raj Kapoor singing “mil-jul ke is watan ko aisa sajayenge hum, hairat se muh takega saara jahan hamara” with right expressions on his face.
Song: Tu Kahan (Tere Ghar ke Samne, Director: Vijay Anand)
Singer: Mohd. Rafi
Music: S.D.Burman
Lyrics: Hasrat Jaipuri
Dark streets, pleasant wind and Dev Anand looking for his love(Nutan) singing “Tu kahan ye bata is nasheeli raat mein, maane na mera dil deewana”. He is walking towards her home meeting people on the streets, annoying some of them, waving and smiling at some, peeping into wrong windows and giving amused looks to lovers passing by.
A shot of dry leaves blown by the wind followed by Dev Anand singing ‘aayi jab thandi hawa..’, and you almost feel the cool breeze on your arms. Nutan standing in the balcony in the climax and the smile on Dev Anand face brings a smile to your face too. And of course Dev Anand’s little nod after Nutan comes back into the balcony to show ek jhalak phir se, ends the song perfectly.
Song: Meri jaan (Anubhav, Dierctor: Basu Bhattacharya)
Singer: Geeta Dutt
Music: Kanu roy
Lyrics: Gulzar
A married couple: Tanuja and Sanjeev Kumar. I have forgotten the scenes preceding or succeeding the song. Not that it matters.
Another rain song. The beauty of rain-drops falling on the leaves of trees, on already water-locked roads etc. have been captured so many times by the camera. The rain in this song in not any different. The best part of the song is the begining. The smile spreading on Sanjeev Kumar’s face as Tanuja starts singing is perfect. They just stand there as she sings and water falls outside. Sometimes we look at them from inside their bedroom and sometimes through the translucent watered glass of the window.
Song: Kahin duur jab (Anand, Director: Hrishikesh Mukherjee)
Singer: Mukesh
Music: Salil Chowdhury
Lyrics: Yogesh
Alright, this is one song for which you need to know the context. You need to know the story to enjoy it fully.
A yellow-orange sunset and the very good-looking Rajesh khanna clad in a kurta, looking at the horizon very slowly starts the song. The setting in very natural. Rajesh khanna is in the backyard, alone in the house. The song breaks the light atmosphere of the movie and reminds the audience that it’s after all a tragic story.
I like the way Amitabh Bachchan comes slowly, switching on the lights one by one and stands behind Anand (Rajesh Khanna) listening to his song, in the last part of the song.
Song: Katra Katra (Ijaazat, Dierctor: Gulzar)
Singer: Asha Bhosle
Music: R.D.Burman
Lyrics: Gulzar
I am a die hard fan of Naseeruddin Shah. I know people will laugh at me if I say that I think that he carries off the romantic scenes most beautifully on screen and for that reason I consider him to be one of the most romantic heroes of Hindi cinema. Par kya karein, that’s how I feel. In this song, Gulzar uses Naseeruddin Shah’s and Rekha’s excellent acting and rekha’s perfect looks brilliantly. To top it all, he goes to heaven to shoot it.
Song: Jhuki jhuki si nazar (Arth, Director: Mahesh Bhatt)
Singer: Jagjit Singh
Music: Jagjit Singh
Lyrics: Kaifi Azmi
Very simple and natural setting. A room with four people and one of them is singing this ghazal. Shabana azmi dressed in white salwar kameez (I think she looks her best in this movie) and light from the lamp falling on her eyes. As the song continues, her effort to restrain tears, turn her head, cry a bit and then turn back to look at people again…everything has been done very well both by the actor and the director.
Song: Dil se (Dil se, Director: Mani Ratnam)
Singer: A.R.Rehman
Music: A.R.Rehman
Lyrics: Gulzar
I don’t quite remember where did Mani Ratnam insert this completely useless (to the storyline) song in the movie. But I don’t care, for the song does not depend on the movie at all. It is beautiful, independent of the context. Of course, looking at the song, it is not too difficult to guess the story of the film. A love story against the backdrop of North-Eastern “terrorism”.
Good-looking and talented Manisha Koirala with charming and always over-acting Shahrukh Khan running away from bomb blasts, hiding from soldiers and crossing fences light up the screen with intensity. A small cut to SRK dancing with kids is also nice. The song leaves you sad with a kind of detached feeling.
A look at these songs and one knows that it’s not colourful clothes (or no clothes), pretty men and women, Alps, balloons, beaches, fake looking forests, tulips or grand sets that make a song worth watching. It’s the right camera angles and correct amount of expressions that make a song special on screen. Let the camera linger on the face for a while, let the audience study the face and the emotions, let these expressions sink into our hearts along with the words and melody.
Some other songs which I can think of now: Teri Duniya Mein Jeene Se (Nau Do Gyaarah), Mohe Bhool Gaye (Baiju Baawra), O Sajna (Parakh), O Pancchi Pyaare (Bandini), Kaali ghata Chhaye (Sujata), Ye raat bheegi bheegi (Chori Chori), Sun sun sun Zalima (Aar Paar), Sach hue Sapne tere (Kala Bazaar), Dil ka Bhanwar (Tere Ghar ke Samne), Kabhi na Kabhi (Sharabi), Kaise Beete Din (Anuradha), Ab ke Sajan Sawan mein (Chupke Chupke), Tere bina zindagi se (Aandhi) among the oldies and among the new ones: Chori chori Jab (Kareeb), Chupke se sun (Mission Kashmir), Dil ne kaha chupke se (1942 a love story), Tu hi re (Bombay), Mera Yaar Mila de (Saathiya), Gali Mein Aaj Chaand Nikla (Zakhm), O papadwale (Makdee), Ye Hausala (Dor).
There must be a a lot more I have missed out. Please add them (with links, if possible) in comments.
Anurag Kashyap
Abhay Deol
Dibakar Banerjee
Hansal Mehta
Khalid Mohamed
Kundan Shah
Anish Kuruvilla
Jaideep Verma
Manish Gupta
Navdeep Singh
Bhavani Iyer
D. Santosh
Onir
Ashvin Kumar
Ramu Ramanathan
Sudhir Mishra
Pankaj Advani
Revathy
Saurabh Shukla
Shilpa Shukla
Sujoy Ghosh
Suparn Verma
Santosh Sivan
Shashank Ghosh
Shivajee
Pavan Kaul
Partho Sen-Gupta
Prroshant Naryannan
Sam Langoria
Satish Kasetty
nice post neeraja ..i like katra katra and dil se …even the other song from aandi ..is mod se jaate hai ..it is b’fully picuturised …
Good one, Neeraja!
Favorites are many, largely I like all songs shot by Maniratnam, rajiv menon, santosh sivan, rakesh mehra, and most by Ghai. Also like what Shaad Ali does. Some songs did really put me off in that sense, mostly the ones that have a great visual quality. Excluding the crimes done in the RD era, some that come to mind are hum hai iss pal yahaan(kisna), some directors who are very good otherwise simply can’t handle songs, like VVC, shyam benegal, sudhir mishra and if I might add, Anurag Kashyap. havent really seen any real ’song’ song from Anurag though.
Nice post Neeraja…
About Abrar Alvi not directing any other movie…the legend goes that..after the miserable flop of Kagaz ke phool, GD decided never to direct any other movie…but, he did want to make Sahib Biwi Aur Ghulam…so, he let Abrar Alvi direct it…but it is also said that GD ghost directed it…and a as a mark of respect to GD…Abrar decided never to direct anyother movie…He was a brilliant writer in his prime..cannot say a brilliant writer as he wrote ” Guddu”, the SRK one…
Ijaazat is one of my fav movies…i always rave about this one scene…which i will tell you someother day…and that scene tells you how much Gulzar believed in detailing…Katra Katra is beautifully picturized and so is Mera Kuch Saaman…Anuradha Patel singing in a spotless white dress…what a metaphor…genius…also the visuals in Chotti Si Kahani si are pretty neat….the foggy and chilly weather…which brings me to the next song..the title of which is evading at this moment..but, it was the first song in the Sai Paranjpe Movie ” Sparsh”…you could totally feel the dilli chilly weather…the newspaper vendor, the morning walkers etc…taaliyan
“There is almost no camera movement. The camera focuses on these two people all the time (except for a small shot at clouds).”
Where di i read that? wink wink…
another of Dev anand is the song ” hmmmm purab ho paschim…uttar ho dakhin..tu har jagah muskuraye..jeetna bhi jaaon mein duur tujhe, utni hi tu paas aaye…aandhi ne roka ..paani ne toka…duniya ne haskar pukaaara..hooo badal bijli chandan paani..aise apna pyaaaar..lene hoga janam hamein kaayee kayee baar”
Ever green Dev Anand, with is trademark..neck jerks…pulled that off brilliantly…so many more yaar…u have opened a pandora’s box
@Anand
Thanks. Agree on ‘is mod se jaate hain’.
@Tushar
Thanks.
Yes ManiRatnam, Santosh Sivan, Rajiv Menon, Rakesh Mehra are good.
I absolutely love both versions of the title track of ‘Kannathil Muthamittal’
Here are the links:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VyAhqOTyfD4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyEtU0QgyFY
Do not quite agree on Ghai. ‘hum hain is pal’ is good and so are some of the songs of Taal, but that’s it. I also do not like Bhansali’s songs.
I like some of songs done by VVC and I think Anurag Kashyap used the songs in ‘No Smoking’ quite well but as you say they were not really the kind of songs we are talking about.
Will add GuruDutt’s name to the list of directors who disappoint in this area.
Neeraja: Good list. Meri Jaan deserves a place for sure and I am glad that you included it.
A few more to the list (strictly the popular ones since I am under fire at times for going off tangent too often these days):
1. Yeh Raat Yeh Chandni: Jaal
2. O Sajna: Parakh
3. Rimjhim Gire Saawan (Lata version for song picturization): Manzil
4. Aayi Zanjeer ki Jhankaar: Razia Sultan
5. Pyar ke Mod Par: Parinda
@OM
lol! I wrote that before I saw your comment and needless to say I was surprised and amused
(I included the ’shot at clouds’ part after I saw your comment. Didn’t remember that part from the video)
Thanks for the detailed info on Abrar Alvi.
Sparsh…another movie that I have to watch some time. I don’t think I’ll find the song anywhere but do let me know the words when you remember.
Arey Subrat! nahi! we want the non-popular ones too
waise your ‘popular’ list includes two songs that I do not know/remember!
moi, had done a lil write-up during my chaddi days on sparsh on apun ka pfc
http://passionforcinema.com/1980-three-national-awards/
@Neerja,
Thanks for putting it up here.. There are so many my favorites in your list still a few notable inclusions of my favs..
1. Waqt ne kiya kya hasee.n sitam – Kaagaz ke phool…
Simply out of the world.. it takes me to another world.. while watching always want to be on the sets of Kaagaz ke phool.. want to relive the moment of song picturisation…
2. Apni to har aah ik toofan hai – Kala Baazar
What genre this song fits in.. a prayer, a sad song.. watch out the brilliant picturisation by Vijay Anand.. as much entertaining as watching a complete film..
3. Yaad kiya dil ne kahaan ho tum
If someone needs to catch a million dollar smile.. Catch Dev Anandon this song..
4. Kuchh dil ne kaha..
Beautiful Sharmila, Haunting Melody makes a perfact khamoshi ki awaaz on the screen
5. Piya tose naina laage re..
Simply the best representative of India
5. Speaking of Bandini, my fav picturised song is the climax song “O re maajhi”.. Haven’t seen any other song used so powerfully in the climax of the film..
and not to forget two of my college time favs..
1. Pehla Nasha Pehla Khumar – Killer Slow-mo
2. Humko aajkal hai intezaar – The magic of Madhuri
Neeraja: Since you are one of the 10 people who read my post, I will give you the list of the non-popular ones too.
1. Dil mein chhupaa ke pyaar ka toofaan: Aan (available on Youtube)
2. Nai Manzil Nai Rahen: Hill Station
3. Chotaa sa ghar hogaa baadalon ki chhaaon mein: Naukri
4. Machal kar jab bhi aankhon: Griha Pravesh
I already have mentioned “Yeh Duniya Agar Mil Bhi Jaye” and if I mention it one more time then, i think, you guys will give my supari to my dushman.
“Hum Bekhudi”, is one of my favorite song of Mohd. Rafi. Hum Behkhudi Mein Chale Gayae.. hmmmmmhmmmm..
I have never seen the video of the song before, but since you mention importance of the video in your article.. i just saw the video of “Hum Bekhuhdi” .
Anyway, it is all about lyrics..
Another favorite Mohd. Rafi song is… Suhani Raat
I have seen “Chori Chori”, the black white movie. The film is very hilarious – a lot funnier than Dil Hain Ke Maanta Nahin.. And that song.. “Jahan Mein Jaati Hoon”
Amol Palekar tried to do something like that in Paheli but failed..
Some cheesy videos.. that i enjoy..
“No No” from “Kyun Ho Gaya Na”. Only in this movie I have found Ashwariya hot and very hot in the song.
“Baat Meri Suniye To Zara ” from Kuch Na Kaho. That song is very underrated. The video is hilarious in a good way.
Pavan: Kucch dil ne kaha is abs fabulous
HG: I love Hum bekhudi mein. It actually starts with a a verse: Kashti palat ke halq-e-toofan mein aa gayi, mauzon ke saath saath kinaare chale gaye. What lines!!
i’l add 3 more
1-wo shaam kuchh ajeeb thi (khamoshi)
2-khamaj-mora saiyyan (music video)
3-anjaney by Strings (music video)
We will have this song to talk about it, then.
that is the best song I have heard of his – it even beats the ghazal – but both are equal.
The song is much simpler to understand than that line! Kya dard hain song mein! I do understand the line – after reading it few times, though. BTW, I have this song, but it does not start with that line, do you mean in the scene the song starts with that verse which Dev Anand or somebody else recites?
I love Dil ka Bhanwar kare Pukar…actually i will do a post on my fav Dev Anand songs…its high time we give him his due here on PFC
I love Khamaj! thanks for mentioning it.
many of the vijay anand songs infact..he was the greatest directors of songs…
sample some…
1.aaj fir jeene ki tamanna hai…guide..(catch it how it starts with kaanton se kheench ke ye aanchal…mesmerizing to say the least..
2.oh hasina…(teesri manzil..)…brilliant camerawork..
You can have most of Shammi – Mohd. Rafi songs in the list! It would be an endless list!
@Pavan
I thought a lot about including ‘Waqt ne Kiya’. The point is that I absolutely hate that ’souls coming out of bodies’ thingy they do in songs. Hence didn’t include it.
All songs of Bandini are brillaintly picturized.
Agree on ‘kuchh dil ne kaha’
@Subrat
Thanks. I’ll have a hard time looking for these songs. I vaguely remember ‘chhota sa ghar hoga’.
@OM
It says it contains heavy spoilres. You want me to read that?! :O
@HG
Thanks for ‘hum bekhudi mein’. Also, watch the video of ‘uff kitni thandi hai’ from the same movie.
@filmibhai
How could I forget khamaj! thanks.
Does anyone know how the song: ‘Nirbal se ladai balwaan ki’ from ‘Toofan aur Diya’ is picturized?
I hope video does justice to this amazing song.
also the song yeh tera ghar yeh mera ghar…deepti naval and farooque sheikh…
@HG
oops not the same movie. I was thinking of ‘kahin bekhayal hoke’ from Teen Deviyan. Sorry!
OMG i just rememvered this gem from Rahul Rawail’s Arjun…
mammaya kairo kairo mamaa
Brilliant way to show the energy of youth
I liked ‘kab ke bichhde’ from lawaris, beautifully penned and picturised…especially the line,”jaise manchaahi duaa barso aazmaa ke mile”…amazing.
Similarly, a song from Blackmail. “Mile jo badan”…hats off to Goldi, sensuality at its subtle best.
i even liked, “har kisi ko nahi miltaa yaha pyaar zindagi mein” very much.
oz’s 20 best:
http://desitrain.com/2005/04/15/20-greatest-song-picturizations/
ahhh..had gret then and almost the smae discussion here again…hostory repeats
Neeraja: Nirbal se ladaai balwan ki if I recollect right was a background number which played in the movie while the brother-sister duo weathered assorted storms (beghgar ho jaana, selling off stuff etc). Songs like these (though good) typecast Manna to a background song specialist. That was sad since in the same year Manna gave some lovely romantic duets in Chori Chori with Lata (Yeh Raat Bheegi Bheegi)
I have never seen the video of this song ” Rasik Balama”…what movie was it from and any vdeo or description?
@Subrat
hmmn..ok. Isn’t it the same movie with the very sweet song ‘pagle hain mann ke..’? It’s not listed on musicindiaonline.
“Ik raat andhiyaari, thi dishaayen kaari kaari
Mand mand pawan tha chal raha
Andhiyaare ko mitane jag mein jyot jagane
ek nanha sa diya tha kahin jal raha”
these lines paint a beautiful picture of a dark night and a small diya in a small temple in my mind.
Also the lines describing the storm:
jhaad ho ya pahad, de wo pal mein ukhaad
soch soch ke zameen pe tha uchhal raha
are very picturesque.
I really wanted to include O Sajna but I already had 6 black and white entries so had to let it go. Also, didn’t want to repeat director.
@OM
lol! that’s interesting. He has very few B&W songs. I think my top ten will have all black and white ones
@OM
It’s from ‘Chori Chori’.
here is the video.
Thanks Neeraja..
i am dissapointed with the video..it so happens many times that you visualize something and you get something else…eggzactly with me reg. this song…moreover dyaam its with Nargis…i do not like Nargis one bit…very few emotions could she emote…one among very few being ” ewwww i am having problems with constipation”
Dil ki Nazar Se from Anari (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rEfniQpGkM)
i would add Aa Ja Ri Aa Nindiya from Do Beegha Zameen. In my opinion, it’s the best lori ever. The picturization is extremely strightforward and simple (almost a single shot), something Bimal Roy excelled in.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmWa7_vNIUI
Another Bimal Roy Beaut – Saawan Ki Raaton Mein from Prem Patra.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jExIcojREEs
For disappointing picturizations of great songs, I would add Ghayal Hiraniya from Munimji – very cheesy picturization, but the song is such a beauty.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0CvX7VL8dw
From the same film, Ek Nazar bas ek Nazar, was nicely picturized on Dev Anand and Ameeta
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4-nyfFu5y4
Ae Dilruba from Rustom Sohrab. What a lovely song composed by Sajjad and sung by Lata in an uncharacteristic low pitch that adds that haunting character to the song! The picturization, however, is quite pedestrian…almos kills the song.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3U2GOvgX34M
i think Kishore Kumar’s songs especially in ‘Chalti ka naam gaadi’ and ‘Half Ticket’ were great. The chemistry between him and Madhubala is refreshingly innocent (also his chemistry with Pran in ‘Half Ticket’!!).
Not only his comic histrionics, even ‘Aa chal ke tujhe..’ from ‘Door gagan ki chhaon men’ is beautifully shot.. such an un-Kishore like movie and song!
Subhash Ghai was quite good in songs. He went downside from Karma onwards.
ja re ja o harjai, karz, vidhata, he was good there
I love to watch the video of the tere bina song from Aandhi..I almost get hysterical when Kishore Kumar voice crops up towards the end…What a song and what a way to convey the thoughts…Another of my fav song videos of all time is Aawarapan from Jism.
Hey any one of you have watched “Cham cham barse ghata” from the film Priyatama with Jeetendra and Neetu Singh in the lead?It is one the of the best rain songs picturised in Hindi films.Also the song “Rim Jhim gire Saawan” picturised on Amitabh Bachchan.
Even the song Aanewala Pal Jaane wala hai from the film Golmaal is picturised well.
@Aditya(33)
Thanks for providing the links.
Talking about badly picturized ones, I think ‘Ankhon se jo utari hai dil mein’ will top my list. Please don’t watch it if you love the song.
Don’t know how I forgot main zindagi ka saath.. from Hum Dono.
Nice video.
Ayega Aanewala (Mahal) was also picturised hauntingly
hey neeraja i sent u a mail
@filmibhai
huh? I didn’t get any!
oh ..actually i sent a reply to that invite mail .. i saw now it came frm bwtdonations@yahoo … whats ur mail
@filmibhai
neeraja.sigma@gmail.com
Hemant Kumar was one of the notable personalities who made significant contribution in bollywood and tollywood music. He composed music for the films Nagin,
Mala Sinha had a different identity in bollywood films, and she is probably the only actress from the north-eastern India who had been successful both in bollywood films and Bengali cinema.
@Souvik
Yeah you are right but the reason as to why was she so popular remains a mystery to me!
Hi
Maybe you could have included Tere Mere Sapne Ab Ek Rang Hain…from Guide. Perfect lyrics, music to match, impeccable location and Dev Anand and Waheeda Rehman, both stunning in this song. It has to be the nost romantic song picturised in such a cimple manner. Terrific close ups. Mohammad Rafi sings it from his heart.
Ijjazat was the film where in there was only one play back singer – Asha Bhonsale. All the songs were sung by Rekha or Anuradha Patel. None on Nasseer. Are there any other films like this?
Hi Neeraja
Greetings of the day.
I happened to see your blog dedicated to beautiful lyrics from Hindi film music
http://passionforcinema.com/songs-lyrics-melody-and-video/
It is an excellent piece of article and many thanks for posting it. I am proud to let you know that I am involved with the first ever website dedicated to this singer Geeta Dutt ji. The website is www.geetadutt.com and was launched on 23rd November 2008. Kindly visit the site and do let us know your feedback on the same.
I will be highly grateful if you can provide a link to www.geetadutt.com on your blog.
Many thanks and warmest Regards
Parag
(On the behalf of Geeta Dutt fans)