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Old Hindi film songs of the 1930s to the 1960s.

Female Bonding And Their Duets

2024-03-08 03:30
Commemorating the International Women’s Day with female duets Men may not be from Mars nor women from Venus, but there is a fundamental difference in the way the two genders bond with… Read More

Street Dancers Of Bollywood

2024-02-13 03:30
Guest article by DP Rangan (An interesting feature of our films is the dances performed in the streets, often by unknown actors. Sometimes the main protagonists also take to dancing and sing… Read More

Mohammad Rafi From A To Z

2024-01-01 03:30
Wishing the readers and their friends and families a very Happy New Year with Rafi’s centenary year celebrations (b. 24 December 2024, d. 31.7.1980) Mohammad Rafi is the undisputed mo… Read More
Best Songs Of 1942: Wrap UP 4

Best Songs Of 1942: Wrap UP 4

2023-12-10 03:30
And the SOY Award for the Best Music Director of 1942 goes to? After the Overview Post, Wrap Up 1 of the best male solos, Wrap Up 2 of the best female solos and Wrap Up 3 of the best duets… Read More
The Sculptors Of Film Songs (9): Dattaram

The Sculptors Of Film Songs (9): Dattaram

2023-11-30 03:30
Guest authors Piyush M Pandya (Gujarati) and Ashok M Vaishnav (English translation) (The most prominent identity of Dattaram is as long-time assistant of Shankar-Jaikishan. He later started… Read More
Best Songs Of 1942: Wrap Up 3

Best Songs Of 1942: Wrap Up 3

2023-11-20 03:30
And the award for the best duet of 1942 goes to? 1935 to 1946 have been years of KL Saigal dominance of the film music. Yet, there is something about duets that even in these years duets lea… Read More

The Sculptors Of Film Songs (8): Ramlal

2023-10-30 03:30
Guest article by Piyush M Pandya (Gujarati original) and Ashok M Vaishnav (English translation) (We all know Ramlal as the music director of V Shantaram’s films ‘Sehra’ and… Read More

Best Songs Of 1942: Wrap Up 2

2023-10-08 03:30
And the SOY ward for the Best Female Singer goes to? In my overview post of the best songs of 1942, I had mentioned that the ratio between male solos and female solos in the songs in which s… Read More

The Sculptors Of Film Songs (7): V Balsara

2023-09-17 03:30
Guest article by Piyush M Pandya (Gujarati original) & Ashok M Vaishnav (English translation) (V Balsara was an extremely talented musician encompassing proficiency in all the links in t… Read More

Krishna And Flute

2023-09-06 18:29
Wishing everyone a very Happy Janmashtami with best songs on Krishna and the flute Thanks to several TV serials, Amar Chitra Katha mythology comics, and other sources everyone knows Lord Kri… Read More

Best Songs Of 1942: Wrap Up 1

2023-07-22 03:30
And the award for the Best Male Singer goes to? KL Saigal in most of his active years was a colossus and, thus, the answer to this rhetorical question was a foregone conclusion. In 1942, Sai… Read More

Love Counsellors In Bollywood

2023-06-30 03:30
Guest article by Anita Rupavataram (There is no upper age limit for falling in love. As our octogenarian love guru, DP Rangan, has explained in his recent series of articles, love entails go… Read More

Shikwa In Bollywood

2023-06-19 00:30
Guest article by DP Rangan (Our love guru DP Rangan, after exploring the ecstacy, agony and flippant sides of love, now explores another common aspect shikwa/shikayat, or ‘complaint&rs&hell…Read More

Songs Of Yore Completes 13 Years

2023-06-07 03:30
Today the Songs of Yore completes thirteen years. The last three years have brought great disruption in the world. In the years 2020 and 2021, the pandemic was on a rampage. The year gone by… Read More

Ballads Of Love: Flippant

2023-05-18 03:30
Guest article by DP Rangan completing his Trilogy of Love (Our octogenarian guest author, DP Rangan, surely has great experience in ‘Love’. This is an evidence that age is not ju… Read More

Best Songs Of 1942

2023-05-08 03:30
And the winners are? As we go back more and more into vintage years there is a concern whether we would come across some familiar songs. There are indeed some undiscovered gems, but there ar… Read More

Songs Of Synecdoche And Onomatopoeia

2023-04-28 00:30
The CBSE syllabus for its Board examinations in English includes a topic ‘Poetic Devices’ or ‘Figures of Speech’. The common ones like simile, metaphor, irony, hyperb… Read More

Ballads Of Love: Agony

2023-04-07 00:30
Guest article by DP Rangan (DP Rangan had written on the ecstasy side of love when the stars shine bright, sky is bluer than ever, flowers are in bloom, and the world smiles tenderly. But jo… Read More

Ballads Of Love: Ecstacy

2023-03-18 03:30
Guest article by DP Rangan (We celebrated Holi sometime back. This is the season of romance and love, when the flowers bloom, there is music in the stream of rivulets and rustling of leaves… Read More

Kleptomania In Bollywood

2023-03-08 03:30
Wishing the readers and their families a very Happy Holi and International Women’s Day We are all aware of the drug problem in Bollywood, thanks to the media which went into frenzy at… Read More

Pyarelal Santoshi: Jack Of All Trades?

2023-01-12 03:30
Guest article by DP Rangan as a tribute to the polymath PL Santoshi, the lyricist, dialogue & script writer, actor, singer, producer, director (Most of us with some familiarity about our… Read More

Best Songs Of 1943: Wrap Up 4

2022-12-11 14:01
And the Award for the Best Music Director goes to? The year 1943 was like 1944 in many respects. Kismet became a cult hit for its novel theme; it also happened to have outstanding… Read More

Thinkers’ Songs

2022-11-30 03:30
(Note: I understand some SOY regulars are not getting email notification of new posts. You are all requested to register your email in the box at the bottom of the post. You would get a mail… Read More

Romancing Other Miscellaneous Balmas

2022-11-20 03:30
(Note: I understand some SOY regulars are not getting email notification of new posts. You are all requested to register your email in the box at the bottom of the post. You would get a mail… Read More

Master Ghulam Haider: A Trailblazer

2022-11-09 03:30
Guest article by DP Rangan as a tribute to Ghulam Haider on his 69th Remembrance Day (1908 – 9 November 1953) (DP Rangan has been the most prolific guest writer for SOY, but it is more… Read More

Best Songs Of 1943: Wrap Up 3

2022-10-19 03:30
And the award for the best duet goes to? There is something about duets which make them exceptional. If you take a re-look at my Overview Post, six out of the eight ‘Special Songs&rsqu&hell…Read More

Best Songs Of 1943: Wrap Up 2

2022-09-18 22:30
And the Award for the Best Female Solo singer goes to ? If you browse through the Wrap Up 1 regarding the best solos of 1943, it was clearly a one-horse race with KL Saigal being the Pole St… Read More

Songs Of Sarcasm

2022-08-12 18:31
If the world only comprised narcissists at one extreme, and the most polite and courteous who profusely praise others at the other end, it would be a very boring place. Things are never blac… Read More

Duets (+) Of Mukesh: With Male Singers

2022-07-22 02:30
Guest article by Ahok M Vaishnav as a tribute to Mukesh on his 99th Birth Anniversary (b. July 22, 1923 – d. August 27, 1976) (Once SOY-veteran N Venkataraman remarked that there has b… Read More
In Praise Of A Woman’s Beauty

In Praise Of A Woman’s Beauty

2022-06-29 03:30
A keen reader S. Joseph often suggests some themes to write on. He once wrote to me that there were many songs of a man praising the beauty of a woman, and also, somewhat less, of a woman pr… Read More
Songs Of Narcissists

Songs Of Narcissists

2022-06-18 07:45
Narcissism is seen as some kind of personality disorder denoting an exaggerated sense of self-importance, arrogant, self-centred behaviour and need for excessive attention and admiration. Na… Read More

Songs Of Yore Completes Twelve Years

2022-06-06 23:30
In normal times, completing twelve years of blogging would have been a matter of joy, and possibly a bit of crowing. That would look quite out of place in these unusual times. We thought tha… Read More
Best Songs Of 1943: Wrap Up 1

Best Songs Of 1943: Wrap Up 1

2022-05-26 03:30
The SOY Award for the Best Male Singer goes to? There are years when a competition becomes a one-horse race. That is the case with the best male singer for the year 1943. On the one hand we… Read More
Vasant Desai Part 1: A Multifaceted Talent

Vasant Desai Part 1: A Multifaceted Talent

2022-05-14 02:30
If a new visitor looks up Songs Of Yore, she would notice some names conspicuously missing in the right-hand scroll of music directors. There is no design in it, it has just happened. Yet I… Read More
Best Songs Of 1943: And The Winners Are?

Best Songs Of 1943: And The Winners Are?

2022-04-14 22:30
If 1944 was the year of Naushad’s Jewel in the Crown, Rattan, 1943 was the year of Kismet which became a cult film on the back of its music by Anil Biswas. The Master Khemchad Prakash… Read More
Impossible Songs

Impossible Songs

2022-03-18 08:00
Wishing the readers a very Happy Holi The regular readers of SOY are aware that on Holi, when everyone is out throwing coloured water on each other, I often reflect on some serious issues. N… Read More
The Teary-eyed Songs

The Teary-eyed Songs

2022-02-18 08:40
Guest article by Anita Rupavataram (Mukesh once famously sang, ‘Hazaaron tarah ke ye hote hain aansoo’ (song #5 in this post). There are literally thousands of types of tears.&nb&hell…Read More
Lata Mangeshkar Lives Forever

Lata Mangeshkar Lives Forever

2022-02-06 22:42
The story of my deep romance for Lata Mangeshkar (28.9.1929 – 6.2.2022) Lata Mangeshkar is no more – her mortal body that is. She was over 92, she has been in and out of hospital… Read More
Romancing The Jaadugar Balma

Romancing The Jaadugar Balma

2022-01-12 09:00
By now the regular readers of the SOY can easily answer if Amitabh Bachchan were to ask on KBC, बलमा के कितने प्… Read More

The Out Of Sight Genius Hansraj Behl

2021-11-19 09:00
A tribute to the great Master Hansraj Behl (19 November 1916 – 20 May 1984) on his 105th birth anniversary A fellow-blogger and SOY regular, Anup (Mehfil Mein Meri), has written an exh… Read More

Songs Of Women For The Women By The Women

2021-11-10 06:00
Wishing the readers a very Happy Chhath festival My fellow bloggers Madhu and Anu are apt to say, no sooner do you put two women together in our films than they start singing. There must be… Read More
Best Songs Of 1944: Final Wrap Up 4

Best Songs Of 1944: Final Wrap Up 4

2021-10-30 09:00
And the Award for the Best Music Director goes to? When you think of the year 1944, you think of Naushad. That was the beginning of Naushad phenomenon with his Jewel in the crown, Rattan. Th… Read More
Romancing Through The Window And Door

Romancing Through The Window And Door

2021-10-05 05:00
Window opens the outside world to those inside. If a person from outside tries to look into a window, his view is very restricted. Because of this asymmetry, window creates many interesting… Read More

Best Songs Of 1944: Wrap Up 3

2021-09-17 01:00
And the Award for the Best Duet goes to? In my list of 81 MEMORABLE SONGS in the Overview Post on the best songs of 1944, I counted 17 duets. This is quite a small number, but as we have see… Read More
Q&A In Songs

Q&A In Songs

2021-09-06 07:00
We used to learn in our schools that literature is the mirror of society. As I grew, I realised this is more true of our film songs which mirror every aspect of the society and our lives. No… Read More
The Gravitas Of Sitar In Songs

The Gravitas Of Sitar In Songs

2021-08-07 06:00
Sitar makes a very conspicuous presence on the screen due to its size. But it conveys an entirely different image from the piano or the harmonium. If piano is aristocracy, harmonium is plebi… Read More
Best Songs Of 1944: Wrap UP 2

Best Songs Of 1944: Wrap UP 2

2021-07-21 04:00
And the award for the Best Female Song goes to? If you browse through my Overview Post on the best songs of 1944 and the Wrap Up 1 about the best male solos, two features would strike you im… Read More
Best Songs Of 1944: Wrap Up 1

Best Songs Of 1944: Wrap Up 1

2021-07-06 06:00
And the award for the Best Male Solo goes to? In my Overview Post of the best songs of 1944, I had mentioned that in the total songs in the years in which the singers’ names were known… Read More
Songs Of Yore Completes Eleven Years

Songs Of Yore Completes Eleven Years

2021-06-07 04:00
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times,…. it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair.&rdqu&helli…Read More

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