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Seeing no new post from me on my blog, my readers got concerned about it. Pacifist just couldn’t tolerate this utter neglect and came again to my rescue. thank you, dear Pacifist. This is her third post on this blog and with it she is showing her business acumen. Bravo, Pacifist! More power to the small businessmen and -women!
Pacifist’s choice of 10 songs of small business
Thank you Harvey. I’m quite pleased at having this opportunity of posting 10 songs on a subject I have often thought about. People selling stuff, doing business. It was a wonderful time of economic opportunity, letting the small fish survive. Today they have been eaten up by the big fish. I don’t mean to imply that they all sold stuff in the filmi manner, but sell, they did.
So in memory of those small dying/dead businesses, here are 10 such songs.
I do have more than 10 songs with a different product being sung and sold, but I’m such a sucker for melody, tunes which are pleasing to my ears that I left some and took some even though the product got repeated. Boot Polish was one such, Tel Maalish another 🙂
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Tags: aaj ki taaza khabar, Asha Bhonsle, baman ho ya jaat, Bhagwaan, boot chappal sandal- Karigar (1958), C Ramchandra, channa chor garam babu, Chitragupt, dev anand, Dhumal, ek aana boot polish do aana tel maalish, Film Pyaasa (1957), Ghar ki Laaj (1960), Guest Post, Jaan Nissar Akhtar, Jadoo [1951], Johnny Walker, Kabhi Andhera Kabhi Ujala (1958), Karigar (1958), Kishore Kumar, lelo choodiyan main laya nirali, lelo lelo do phool jani lelo, Majrooh Sultanpuri, Maya [1961], Meena Kumari, Mohammad Rafi, Mukesh, Nalini Jaywant, Naushad, Naya Andaaz (1956), O. P. Nayyar, OP Nayyar, Pacifist, Prem Dhawan, Rajendra Krishan, Ravi, Sahir Ludhianvi, Sajid Khan, Salil Choudhary, sar jo tera chakraye, SD Burman, Shakeel Badayuni, Shamshad Begum, Shanti Mathur, Sheikh Mukhtar, Son of India (1962), surma mera nirala, Tel Maalish Boot Polish (1961), This Singing Business, Usha Mangeshkar, zindagi hai kya, Zorabai
My 10 favourite ‘maanjhi’ songs from Hindi cinema
To say that I love the maanjhi songs would be an understatement. Particularly “O re maanjhi” from Bandini takes me to a different dimension. Maanjhi (also pronounced as maajhi) is a boatman. In songs and poems they are often pleaded to by lovers (mostly women) to take them across the river to meet their beloved. In devotional songs he is the spiritual master who is being begged by the seeker to give him/her that shift in consciousness, which will take him/her from the body consciousness to brahman. These two different levels give the songs a certain spin.
So here are my favourite 10 ‘maanjhi’ (in chronological order) songs from Hindi cinema. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Aaya Sawan Jhoom Ke. Maanjhi naiya dhoondhe kinara, Amit Kumar, Amitabh Bachhan, Aruna Irani, Asha Parekh, Ashok Kumar, baaz, Bade acche lagte hai, Ballika Badhu, Bandhe Hath, Bandini, Biraj Bahu, chalo hole hole, dev anand, Dharmendra, Ferry, geeta bali, Gulzar, guru dutt, Hema Malini, Hemant Kumar, Hum Hindustani, Jeetendra, Kamini Kaushal, Kashti, Khushboo, Kishore Kumar, Lata Mangeshkar, Laxmikant-Pyarelal, Maajhi Albele, Maanjhi Chal O Maanjhi Chal, Maanjhi Meri Qismat Ke Jee Chahe, Manjhi re le chal naiyya, mere saajan hai us paar, Mumtaz, Naav Badha Le Maajhi Jor Laga Le, Nirmal Choudhary, Nutan, O Maanjhi O Maanjhi Re, O maanjhi re apna kinara, OP Nayyar, Pancham, Rajendra Krishna, Rajni Sharma, RD Burman, Sachin, SD Burman, Shailendra, Swaroop Dutt, tu Chale To Cham Cham Baje, Upahaar, Usha Khanna