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More Kishore Kumar Songs (1)

admin — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 05:30:29 +0000

I’ll keep providing links to Kishore Kumar songs as long as they continue trickling in my way. An awesome amount of Kishore-Lata music also needs being looked into at, just like the Kishore-Asha one did. But it seeks long hours, which is why I shall look into it some time later!

Mohammed Rafi Songs This Month

admin — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 18:26:40 +0000

Staying put with Mohammed Rafi songs, here is one more list. These tracks belong to several moods, the patriotic ones lead the fray however.

Kishore Kumar In A Reflective Mood

admin — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 21:19:11 +0000

Image courtesy of Ambarish.com

Kishoreda’s solos are getting fewer with each shared list of mine. Be prepared to start listening to Kishore-Lata and Kishore-Asha duets soon, but for the time being hum these reflective/ philosiophical Kishore Kumar numbers.

More Kishore Kumar songs in the weeks to follow.

Sad Mohammed Rafi Songs

admin — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 02:15:46 +0000

Rafi Saab, never seen not smiling. A truly divine soul! From where did he borrow tears for these amazing songs?! Good humans may have more insight into the human plight, as they say!

One requires more time having to decide about Mohammed Rafi songs as against those from Kishoreda. Why so? Two reasons. Firstly, I’m not a proficient follower of Rafi’s legacy. Having listened KK more keenly since my teenage-hood only makes it easier classifying him as per varying moods. The same couldn’t be stated about Rafi though. Secondly and more significantly, Rafi’s era belonged to better poetry. I realize this more, the more I listen to his songs from the 50s and 60s these days. They require more time having to classify them. Kishoreda was a highly passionate singer, had better recording techniques and composers of RD Burman’s stature by his side, but not the same enchanting poetry that Rafi enjoyed only a decade earlier. Hindi cinema was vigorously looking to exploiting the newly imported cine methods such as Eastman color, cinema scope and displaying slow motion displays by the onset of the 70s, as opposed to good scripting and song writing they would otherwise in Rafi’s era.

The scenario worsened further after Kishore Kumar’s demise, as Hindi music seemed to have finally broken apart due to a lack of talent, intent and seriousness. Better poetry and scripting may be about to make a come back though, as movies have lucrative funds and settled techniques to rely on these days.

Listen to various sentimental moods of Mohammed Rafi through this collection now, all courtesy of Dishant.com, Songs.pk and a few other music resources.

Romantic Mohammed Rafi Songs

admin — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 04:15:32 +0000

I wanted to start speaking about Rafi having had posted so much on Kishore in the last few months. Let us begin with the following song list, the first in a series of many similar to come on Rafi and others. Rafi was the original playback maestro. All others only followed him. While Sehgal fans may not agree with my notion, I can choose to ignore them since they are hardly any force to make a hue and cry on this issue…lol. A list of mostly romantic solos by Rafi is displayed here. Remember, I’m no pucca Rafi listener, so bear with whatever I could produce now.

My childhood went in listening to an exploding Kishore Kumar. This happened from mid-70s onwards. He was alive till I became 18 in 1987. Rafi passed away when I must have been around 11. Mukesh a couple of years earlier. I clearly remember them having a sway over my elder generation. I carried the word of appreciation from thereon. Rafi’s voice thus became an integral part of my upbringing. Vividh Bharati and All India Radio Urdu Service would air Hindi movie songs in those days. Megaphones in Navaratri Pandals and weddings would also play them aloud.

There were times, I won’t listen to KK’s numbers for months on (mostly having overlistened him). I did not enjoy it, unless I could sing along too. And this was not easy to accomplish in KK’s case. You could follow Rafi in all weathers though, if you desired so. His genre bore a simplicity, despite his vastness as a singer, that may not easily be found in any other singer’s style. I used to switch over to Rafi’s camp for this reason, whenever tired of listening KK.

Rafi Saab In Aashiqana Mood!

Rare Kishore Kumar Live Videos

admin — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 22:45:20 +0000

I recently checked out youtube and grabbed the following rare Kishore Kumar live videos. Rare, because anything related with him is rare for his fans anyway. A few of these belong to a charity show, part aired by Doordarshan on that evening. This, about a year and a half before he finally departed from this world.

Kishore Kumar, the legend, sings at a charity show in Delhi in the mid 80s

A satirist-writer of fame KP Saxena called him BHAAND (cheap entertainer) soon after the show in one of his news magazine columns, citing his going down flat on floor and all those leg swings infront of Delhi’s kids and women. How nakedly different opinions could be! Yet we laughed and moved on, since the author’s very job required him to do what he did.

More Videos….Click On Thumbnails

Mere Sapno Ki Rani

The Fun Of Khaike Paan Banaras Waala And The Ensuing Melee

Phoolon Ka Taaron Ka Sabka Kehna Hai

De De Pyar De

Taki O Taki

Main Hoon Zum Zum Zum Zum Zumroo

Mere Mehboob Qayamat Hogi

Kuch To Log Kahenge

Humein Aur Jeene Ki Chahat Na Hoti

Yeh Dil Na Hota Bechaara

Yeh Dard Bhara Afsana

Kishore Kumar Performs Live At A FilmFare Night

Kishore Kumar Video Clip

Pancham On KK And Bhoot Bangla

Amit Kumar On KK And Besurapan

Amit Kumar On Song O Manzi Re

Amit Kumar – Who Knew This Man Would Be Gone So Soon!

And Finally, hard to beleive him lying motionless in this video……The Legendary Singer Kishore Kumar Passes Away

Tribute To Kishoreda

Amitabh Bachchan To Speak About His Old Days

admin — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 21:09:59 +0000

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……

Sad Kishoreda Songs

admin — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 21:03:34 +0000

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:

Romantic Kishoreda Numbers

admin — Fri, 09 May 2008 22:49:50 +0000

This job is getting tougher with each passing day, as I try to compile newer Kishore Kumar song lists. The main issue is, one can compile the same collection in several different ways. Kishoreda used to sing with so much passion, that you will find it hard to discretely classify each of his songs. Many of his solos speak of romance, sadness, joy and passion all rolled together into one package. As I decided to post some romantic Kishoreda numbers tonight, so did I feel the need of posting sad, sentimental, electrifying and philosophical ones alongside….phew! It’s hard not to be carried away.

The following list carries some romantic Kishore Kumar numbers, that I came across this evening. Several of his romantic duets will be posted under a different category later. Btw, we hope Songs.pk blooms as ever. We have seen Kishorekumar.org going slow recently, and if Songs.pk too went kaput, so would most of my KK song links!

Have a great melodious time!

PS – “Tera Mujh Se” was basically meant for a child, but it molds nicely into the adult romance as well. Romance carries no barriers, anyway. One could romance with the sky, trees and the mountains, if they wished!

Kishore Kumar Songs

admin — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 19:35:33 +0000

While some of you may already be knowing about this, I’d like to propose the following website to those others, who might have just begun googling down about Kishoreda’s genius. The website doesn’t list all of Kishore Kumar songs, yet happens to provide a fair deal of entertainment.

http://www.kishorekumar.org/songs/

There are some interesting Kishore kumar live videos as well. In one of them you can see him making the life of a young Bappi Lahiri and his orchestra precarious with his high voltage performance of “De De Pyaar De”. He virtually turns the whole stage upside down!

Three cheers to Sanjeev Tiwari for making this great website possible.