Here is a list of Gujarati movie songs by Geeta Dutt. Locate the mp3 player just below the top left corner. I have been wandering around to find newer file hosting sites for my uploads. Let me know if you have any problems downloading these numbers.

• Aaj Mari Nandiye Mehnu Maryun
• Anande Nache
• Bhulun Bhutkal Toye
• Chham Chham Payal Dhire Dhire
• Ene Jeevava Dyo Ne Jari
• Ganjifanu Chhe Ghar
• Gokuliye Rang Ramva
• Kanuda Tari Moraliye
• Khovaine Kholva Prabhu
• Mane Marya Nenana Baan
• O Majham Ratni Tarli
• Rakhna Ramakadan
• Saji Shole Shangar
• Taliona Tale
• Tame Thoda Thoda Thaav Varnagi
• Vanre Vagdane Mojar

Here is a list of Gujarati movie songs by Lata Mangeshkar.

• Dhari Kanku Kankan Panetar
• Ek Rajkan Suraj
• Ghunghate Dhankiyun Re Ek Kodiyu
• Hansala Halo Re
• Joi Joi Thaki
• Majham Raate
• Mane Gheli Gheli Joi
• Mara Te Chitno Chor
• Mehandi Te Vavi Malve
• Na Na Nahin Aavun
• Nayan Chakchoor Chhe
• Pandadun Lilun Ne Rang Rato
• Raste Rajhalati Varta
• Roople Madhi Se Sari Raat
• Tane Sachave Paravati
• Tare Te Bharose
• Vaheli Parodhno Vayro

Big B finally starts speaking about his heydays. Begins by recalling his fight from the jaws of death at the Breach Candy hospital in 1982. Brings out in the mind very familiar pictures for this author, whose both parents had to be shifted in the ICU at some point of time in the past, and whoes dad had to finally breathe his last in the same environs in 2006. Big B makes a tale-telling account as usual- quite narrative, stirring and laden with sentiments. His ability to visualize the events from past is amazing, and he could easily have been a great fiction writer or a movie director if not into acting.

Many images came to this author’s mind, and the whole 1982 crisis got revisited. How Indira Gandhi had flown to Mumbai to inquire about his health. How the complete absence of any commercial TV channels had still not prevented the entire country going totally hooked to this sole news for months on. How his life’s end would be rumored causing an instant outpouring of public sentiments. How fans would make journeys to temples, stand in huge numbers outside Breach Candy. How each of his ups and downs, as he finally started recovering would be made into major headlines in those days. This author could recall until his departure from Breach Candy, the rest is fuzzy now though. He indeed went on to complete Coolie which became an instant hit on its release in 1983.

Find Amitabh story-telling about his cheerleader in the ICU as he rose back to his recovery from ash. Ends you speechless and full of emotions at the end.

Day 60

The following is a list of Gujarati movie songs by Mukesh, I have been able to collect recently. Some of these are truly old ones, since Mukesh could be heard imitating KL Sehgal in those few. A few of them are quite familiar and therefore, could be assumed to have been popular since the old days. I know, some of you have been searching out for particular Gujarati movie songs on my site (I always save them for my later use) including those sung by Rafi and Mukesh. I’ll soon upload a few of Rafi and Talat Mahmood Gazals, as well as some Lata and Geeta Dutt movie numbers. Enjoy these Gujju songs in the Sugam Sangeet mode by Mukesh for the time being. Sugam Sangeet, Light Music or Gazal whatever, I’ve chosen to publish them under Gujarati folk music for my own simplicity.

• Aapne Sahune Hartan Fartan
• Aavo Toye Saru
• Amar Jyoti
• Bhamara Sarakhun Marun Manadu
• Chalyaj Karun Chhun
• Have Prabhu Avataar Lyo To
• He Tane Zanta Joie
• Jaano Jigar No Mitho Pyar
• Mahatab Sam Madhuro
• Maitri Bhavnu Pavitra Zaranu
• Mane Tari Yaad Satave
• Mara Bhola Dil No
• Najar Na Jaam Chhalkavine
• Najarne Kahie Do Ke
• Nayan Ne Nayan Male Jyan
• Pankhidane Aa Pinjarun
• Pritadi Bandhata Re Manada
• Sanam Jo Tun Bane Gul To

Btw, how to describe and define Sugam Sangeet? Any clue?

Amitabh Bachchan has promised to speak about his old team mates soon - the stalwarts and colleagues he worked with. Part of his fan following, including this author, kept him reminding about this issue, and he now seems to be about to oblige us.

This made me to recollect all I have wanted to know from him and left the list inside his comments section at his latest blog entry. The list of my queries goes without any edits as bellow:

Sholay is the biggest example of how the movie critics could go horribly wrong. They had already trashed it down, before the crowds began swelling in in theaters, and how awesome it proved out to be, we know now. At the same time let me add here, the media or any other segment of our society (like the polity) may not be any different that what the rest may stand for. If India lacks in efficiency, while driving on roads, in honestly paying and collecting taxes, in governance and social make-up, then media could also not be expected to be any different. They too are the same CHALTAA HAI motto people!

With regards to your earlier hint that you might soon begin speaking about your early days, and the stalwarts you had a chance to work with, let me remind you some of the names and issues for the moment.

1. Please help us know how the “angry young man” tag got evolved with your early phase. There is this movie Namak Haram, which brings out your aggression and energy quite remarkably inside a plot where there are no fights to be undertaken; Zanjeer also got released during the same year. In fact, Anand too had a glimpse of your about-to-burst anger in a couple of shots. Had any particular director have a say in molding you into such developments, or did you start to bring it out on your own?

You once narrated, how you had complained your father “Hamein Kyun Paida Kiya”. Was this same dissatisfaction which later began surfacing up in your roles? Or would you say, this whole “angry young man” image was a fabrication by the media, and you never felt conscious towards it?

2. Please, let us know something about Hrishida and his movies like Abhiman, Mili, Chupke-Chupke and Namak Haram, and the impact they had had on cine career.

You had once agreed with an interviewer while speaking on the BBC Hindi service, that your career was on a pinnacle, oblivious of the true rise you were yet to achieve; this was soon after Abhiman’s success…any comments about it after so many successful releases?!

3. And yes, as an ardent Kishore Kumar fan, I’d also like to read something on him. It’s beyond doubt, he had had a great impact on your filmy career. One couldn’t imagine the kind of characters you would play without visualizing his electrifying playback.

At the same time, you were the only actors who could match fire with fire with your on-screen efforts to what KK did behind the scene…you always succeeded in portraying, and even added a few extra dimensions to what KK would sing. This was a fabulous combo that we KK fans are proud of. How challenging was it to act on his voice? Did you both have some kind of personal chats on how he should have sung and how you should have acted upon it? How contrasting is it to act on today’s singers? (notwithstanding the technical proficiency attained, the music has deteriorated in Bollywood over the years)

What was this discord between you and KK before his demise? It surely made us be deprived of some more great numbers!

4. Could you tell us the story behind your hair style, if any…the typical hair cut on your ears, and thickening at the back of neck? The Beatles used to have something alike…was it the influence of that era?

5. How far is the gossip true that Jaya ma’am had made fun of your TOOTEE CHAPPALEIN during your early days?

6. Anything on Amitabh-Rekha pairing? No pressure about this though!

7. Facts about how your association with the names like MM Desai, Prakash Mehra and Yash Chopra got evolved. Did yourself being (almost) in the same age group as MM Desai and Mehra help in the successful releases you later happened to make?

8. Your joining politics at a time you were occupying the first ten spots in Bollywood (as your equally successful fellow actor Jitendra had once famously said) meant that we couldn’t have as many releases as we might have had otherwise. Did you ever regret this decision in the years to follow? Movie fans do regret, on their own part!

9. What was going inside your own mind and that of your producers’, when you started giving the duds like Toofan and Ajooba a few years later? Obviously, you had ceased to continue mesmerizing the new cine goers by that time. Did you ever feel the pressure of age catching up with you in those days?

10. Why did you stop acting in the early-mid 90s?

11. And yeah, how could your ardent screen enemy Gabbar Singh, who was also your great real life buddy, be forgotten here…and also your longest running screen mate Shashi Kapoor….and your only (top-position) competitor Vinod Khanna, who recently, very honestly, accepted that he had lost to you in that war, and it was one of the reasons why he had to flee to Osho’s Pune Ashram. Strangely, the lay movie fan had no insight to this aspect (of his losing the battle, being the reason of his escape) in those days!

More names, points and suggestions later……

A rare photograph, courtesy of Talatmahmood.net. Kishoreda seated among several other playback stalwarts - namely Talat Mahmood, Mohd Rafi, Mukesh, Geeta Dutt, GM Durrani, Meena Kapoor, Kamal Barot and Mubarak Begum - at the beginning of their careers.

My latest Kishore Kumar songs collection:

• Aaye Tum Yaad Mujhe
• Apne Jeevan Ki Uljhan Ko
• Badi Sooni Sooni Hai
• Chingari Koi Bhadke
• Dekha Hai Zindagi Ko
• Dukhi Man Mere
• Ghungroo Ki Tarah
• Hum Bewafa Hargiz
• Is Se Pehle Ke Yaad Tu
• Ja Mujhe Ab Na Yaad Aa
• Kya Khaber Kya Pata
• Mein Shair Badnaam
• Manzilein Apni Jaga Hein
• Mera Jeevan Kora Kagaz
• Mera Jeevan Kuch Kaam
• Mere Mehbob Qayamat Hogi
• Mere Naina Sawan Bhadon
• Mere Naseeb Mein Aye Dost
• Meri Bheegi Bheegi Si
• Pyar Jab Na Diya
• Teri Duniya Se Hoke
• Yeh Lal Rang Kab Mujhe
• Zindagi Ka Safar Hai Yeh Kaisa
• Zindagi Ke Safar Mein

Here is a list of Gujarati movie songs by Asha Bhonsle.

• Bemat Nathi Ekaj Mat Chhe
• Dhamak Dhamak Sambelun
• Dudhe Te Bhari Talavadi
• Ghor Andhiyari Re Rataladiman
• He Sabada Rahejo
• Hun To Phulada Vinava Gaiti
• Jara Thodi Jaga Tara Jigarman De
• Kan Kunvariyani Zulani
• Khamma Mara Nandjina Lal
• Maadi Taarun Kankun Kharyun
• Maaro Maragado Rokine Rang Dhalyo
• Mara Ram Tame Seetaji Ne Tole Na Aavo
• Mune Ekli Meline
• Panida Gyatan Kuve Re
• Piyane Pipale Thi Aavyun Parevadun
• Rang Bharjo Shravan
• Rangdar Chudalo Ne Rangdar Chudali
• Sona Vatakadi Re

Image Courtesy Exotic India Online Art Store

As promised earlier, here we go with another list of Gujarati movie songs. These are Praful Dave and Usha Mangeshkar duets. I’ll get several more Gujarati movie and folk songs uploaded in the next few days.

Duets by Praful Dave and Usha Mangeshkar

• Aaj Mataji Aavya Mare Aangne
• Aasuti Maas Na Ajwalan
• Ame Mahiyara Re
• Bole Chhe Jhina Jhina Mor
• Haan Haan Re Daan Mange
• Kyan Zalun
• Latke Halo Ne Nandlal
• Maadi Tara Besnaa Gadh Girnare
• Mara Re Swami Manjo
• Marun Sona Nu Chhe Bedun
• Mathe Matuki
• Mehandi No Mane Rang Lagyo
• Sanwariya Daide Ho Rangni Chudi
• Tame Jhuthada Tena Bolo

Happy streaming!

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DAY 37(ii) Post

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On the sets of ‘Aladin’ again and a song !!

Petrified ! Songs have always been a nightmare for me. But more of that later.
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Dear Amitji,
I have quoted the above two sentences from your previous post. It leaves many of us surprised, since your songs have always played a key role in your success. Kindly, grant me the permission to make the following observations in this regard.

1. This blog seems to be carrying out a two-way communication: Helping you know us (the audiences) better and vice-versa. You recently mentioned how tired and doubtful you were feeling the morning you had a shoot, and suddenly somebody’s positive sms made up your day….seems like a familiar story, since most of us have to go through the same, in one or the other way. This blog is, therefore, helping us know you as much as you might do about us!

2. When you have finally spoken and shared enough about your current projects and your close ones (we are enjoying it, no doubt), kindly, look back into your past and let us know once again about your past associates. Allow us to read the “not-so-diplomatic” version of that era. Let us know about your working with Hrishida, his movies like Mili, Abhiman Chupke Chupke and Namak Haram. This author recently watched Namak Haram (doesn’t know if it was produced before or after Zanjeer) and noticed how you had this “angry young man” character flowing out of your (on-screen) persona by that period.

This explosive energy, which would then devastate your on-screen adversaries, and your ability to act it so fabulously, proved out a crucial aspect for your later career, and may not be reenacted by anybody else, however hard they may try at it. Allow us to know more about this on-screen transformation - going into the top of aggression (Zanjeer and Deewar) from the earlier works. How did you realize you could/ should do it? Didn’t this aggressiveness suit the actor that was lying inside you? Or was it also a nightmarish experience just like songs?

3. An interview that you gave after the success of Abhiman was re-aired by the BBC Hindi service a few years ago. They sounded as if you had reached at your pinnacle by then. You also seemed to agree with them, forcing this author to be amused. You did not have the idea of the rise you were yet to see in the Hindi cinema…did you have really?!

4. Let us also know things about Prakash Mehra, MM Desai and Yash Chopra, with whom you gave so many major hits. You, Mehra and Desai seem to come out of the same age group…almost! Did this help in making your association bloom, in anyway?

5. Being an ardent Kishoreda fan, let me ask you this. How was it acting, when you knew, you had his voice to rely on? The two of you together gave so many great numbers….this despite of you saying songs were nightmarish!

It wasn’t a piece of cake for everybody to act on Kishoreda’s voice - he used to sing with so much energy and passion - yet you succeeded in reciprocating his brilliance on-screen. How challenging was it to shoot on KK numbers? And where do you see today’s playback guys? Do you still feel the same charge and excitement that KK (along with RDB, Ashadi, Latadi and other singers and composures of that era) provided you in those days? You had some kind of misunderstanding with him during the mid 80s. It left us short of a few more milestone numbers!

More later…
Warm Regards,
Pankaj Mohan

The Return Of Angry Young… Err… Old Man!

Fans could watch Amitabh Bachchan picking up Filmy fights yet again. He could be seen resorting to no bars “Dhishum Dhishum” for yet one more round. The only difference being this time, he was not battling against any Amjad Khans or Danny Denzongpas. Neither were any Mumbaiya scripts, studio lights or cameras to follow up with nor was there any Man Mohan Desai to make curries out of every scene! These were the real life detractors Amitabh was punching on at. Detractors who would hide behind a free Indian press and its relative lack of accountability. Detractors who would go ga ga, since it was always lucrative to speak against the legendary Amitabh. These were highly educated and intellectual ganstas Lamboo was picking up one by one for his latest outbursts. And you may find he was winning this round as well, just like the celluloid ones. And why not, for the real life Amitabh is as talented as his movie characters, with some unparalleled humor, sarcasm, linguistic and intellectual fineness that he could put forth his arguments to counter his opponents with and keep his audiences spellbound and enthralled.

Just watch out him picking up a few media buffs for whipping here:

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