Foot Tapping & Heart Stopping Op

Yes, I do. Please give me a day or two. I will upload them.

Cheers,
Swarapriya

Sure. Thanks Swarapriya ji

Love And Murder (1966)

This album has some beautiful numbers by Ashaji. Here are the details of the songs and the songs themselves ...

Was missing some tracks....thanks!!!

Sure thing. You're very welcome Erumji. -S

Thanks for uploading my request Swarapriya.

Pratul

Basant (1960)

This film was looslely based on the 1957 English movie "An Affair To Remember" starring Deborah Kerr and Cary Grant. American Film Institute voted this Hollywood movie as "the most romantic film of all time". However, this movie itself was based on another Hollywood movie of 1939, "Love Affair", starring Irene Dunne and Charles Doyer. There was a third version also made by Hollywood in 1994 with the same name "Love Affair". It starred Annette Being and Warren Beatty. Also, a year before this, the 1993 movie "Sleepless In Seattle" starring Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks was inspired by the same movie.

If Hollywood made this movie this many times, Bombay Hindi film folks were not far behind. Apart from"Basant", Manisha Koirala and Aamir Khan starrer "Mann" released in 1999, was also had the same source for inspiration.

The movie "Basant" is a celebration of music. It contained 14 fun and frothy songs! O.P. Nayyar was at the top of his game and almost all of the songs were part of the hit parade. All songs were sung by either Ashaji or Ashaji with Rafi Saab except for a brief (43 seconds) title song that sounds more like that of Manna Dey rather than Rafi Saab. But I may not be correct about this. If anyone can identify this voice, please kindly do so. Nine of the songs are duets with Rafi Saab. Another is a triplet where S.D. Batish joins the twosome. Ashaji had three solos.

Nutan looks ravishingly beautiful in this movie. She was best known for her sensitive portrayals but the light side of her hasn't been fully exploited except possibly by Dev Anand (in movies like "Baarish", "Paying Guest", and "Tere Ghar Ke Saamne").

The songs of "Basant" came from CD compilations, DVD and other resources. Almost all songs have exceptionally good quality. You will enjoy these beautiful songs in such a good quality. I am including an extended version of "Chori Chori" with these songs. This came from the Forum members. This song is really not an extension but juxtaposition of two parts of the same song. In the movie these are two separate duets (Nutan and Shammi for one duet and Nutan and Johny Walker for the other). I am uploading these two anyway. It may not be necessary for you to upload this combined version.

Now for details of the songs and the songs themselves ...

This post has been edited by swarapriya: Oct 10 2008, 05:13 AM

Songs Of "Basant (1960)" Continued ...

Here are the rest of the songs from O.P. Nayyar's masterpiece "Basant (1960)" ...

This post has been edited by swarapriya: Oct 10 2008, 05:12 AM

Thanks for Basant songs, Swarapriya!

You're very welcome Pratul ji. -S

Thanks SP Ji



USR

USR ji, youy're absolutely very welcome indeed. Cheers. -S

Akalmand (1966)

Here is another mid-60's album by OP that has some beautiful songs. With the success enjoyed in only few movies he worked with Kishoreda, one expected more from the combination of OP and Kishore. But that never realized. Somewhere I read that this was because both had very strong personalities and their egoes came in the way to work more together. Thankfully, in the few films they worked together, they delivered some beautiful songs.

Some of the songs came from various CD collections. The others came from various sources like tape. Therefore, you may find the quality to be not that uniform even though none of them is bad to listen to. Now for the details of the songs and the songs themselves ...

Nice Uploads Swarapriya Ji

Thanks. Appreciate it. Cheers. -S