Pyaar

Nice song with nice music, nice lyrics and sung nicely by Sonu Nigam and Alka Yagnik

Music has been given by Nadeem-Shravan

Lyrics are by Sameer

Pyaar Aaya Aur Zyaada from the movie Barsaat (2005)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qc3vjkGUme0

Enjoy :)

Aparna

Nice, Warm Song

Makes me smile and cry....

It's so nostalgic, affectionate and so full of feeling....

It's written and sung by Kailash Kher and music has been given by him, Naresh and Paresh.

The movie led me to the song 'Mumma' which is my favourite song in the movie.

Here's the link for you to click and enjoy the song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkBOcNqyb7E

And if you want to watch the film, it is in this playlist.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAP2Wr4O1Jan4GnLnFn0IlaZZcH2G01dI

The film's name is Dasvidaniya. The ace actor Vinay Pathak plays the lead role and is also one of its co-producers.

The other actors are Gaurav Gera, Rajat Kapoor, Neha Dhupia, Sarita Joshi, Saurabh Shukla, Suchitra Pillai and Purbi Joshi.

Have a scintillating Sunday enjoying this comedy movie :-)

Cheers
Aparna

Let me Remember him

With this song of his

It's one of my Fav SPB songs - I love the lyrics, the music and the way it is sung so superbly by SPB

Now, who is SPB?

He is the singer S.P. Balasubrahmanyam who recently passed away at the age of 74, known to many of us as SPB.

In this video, we can see Saeed Jaffrey, Dimple Kapadia, Kamal Haasan and Rishi Kapoor (who also left us in April this year)

Lyrics are by Javed Akhtar and Music is by R.D. Burman

Hope you like this song.

Regards
Aparna

I like this song :-)

Do you ?!



Happy singing if you do :-)

Thanks to my children, I get introduced to many new songs and I jive with them whenever I can.

Some of them have also made it to my English playlist.

Have a listen when you can.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAP2Wr4O1Jak3pATcv2X29FhJyprJHfFI

Love,
Aparna

Sonu singing Rafi's song

Superb rendition of this beautiful song of Mohammed Rafi from Teesri Manzil (1966)

Music by R.D. Burman and the lovely lyrics are by Asrar ul Hassan Khan also known to us as Majrooh Sultanpuri

Sonu Nigam has sung it really well and he's one of my favourite singers.

Enjoy :)
Aparna

Rooth Na Jaana

Lyrics by Javed Akhtar, Music by R.D. Burman and this is one of my favourite songs of Kedarnath Bhattacharya also known to us as Kumar Sanu.

So here it is for you.

https://youtu.be/N0iX6gZre_E

Happy Romancing :-)

Love,
Aparna

How about this Song?! :-)

It's really funny and hilarious.

I love the feet-tapping music.

Kareena and Salman look gorgeous.

The singers are Mohit Chauhan, Pritam and Palak Muchhal

The music is composed by Pritam Chakraborty and the lyrics are by Mayur Puri

Hope you also enjoy this song :-)

Happy Viewing !!!

Cheers
Aparna

Very soothing song :-)

The lyrics are nice and the music is captivating.

I've even added it to my playlist as I love listening to this song.

Hope you also like it.

Leaving you, as always, with some quotes for your notes.

Happy pondering :-)

The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings. - Eric Hoffer

How little do they see what really is, who frame their hasty judgment upon that which seems. - Daniel Webster

We sleep in separate rooms, we have dinner apart, we take separate vacations - we're doing everything we can to keep our marriage together. - Rodney Dangerfield

I don't need you to remind me of my age. I have a bladder to do that for me. - Stephen Fry

Well done is better than well said. - Benjamin Franklin

Love is not a because, it's a no matter what. - Jodi Picoult

Take Care,
APARNA :)

Aisa Kyun Hota Hai :-)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCD0Qmm3MA0

Very nice song picturised on the pretty and petite - Amrita Rao

She's a talented actress. I've seen her in Main Hoon Na, Ishq Vishk, Vivah and Masti

The lyrics of this beautiful song are by Sameer.

It has been sung wonderfully well by Alka Yagnik.

The music has been given by Anu Malik.

Enjoy :)
Aparna

If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week. – Charles Darwin

Have you heard this song...?!

It's got superb lyrics by Anand Bakshi and superb music by Alokesh Lahiri also known as Bappi Lahiri.

Kishore sings this song as if he's singing only for you :-)

Hothon Pe

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGqEnYkDacM

Hope you like it as much as I do.

And have you read this book?

The Wellness Sense by Om Swami

I gifted this to my children this year.

It's available on Amazon and has got good reviews.

I chose it from this list of English books by Indian authors.

https://www.bookgeeks.in/best-english-books-by-indian-authors/

That's all my sharing for now.

Phir Milenge :-)
Yours, APARNA

There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still. - Franklin D. Roosevelt

What A Song :-)

Sung by Udit Narayan and Alka Yagnik, Lyrics by Sameer, Music by Himesh Reshammiya

It's one of my all-time favourite duets. A superb creation - thanks to the superb efforts of Udit, Alka, Sameer and Himesh. Kudos to their creative teamwork.

This song just floated in my mind while I was soaking up the sun in my leafy backyard full of trees and soothing breeze, birds chirping and the sun smiling :-)

Enjoying the British summer....

What more to write except that I'm loving the warm weather till it lasts....Loving every bit of it, and when I'm in love and feeling happy, such nice songs come to me.

So here it is for you. 

Hope you savour it too. Time and weather permitting :-) I'll bring you some more. Soon Boloji will become BoloRadio :-)

LOL :D

Reminds me of my good old days when I used to be a radio presenter in AIR (All India Radio) and did some English and Hindi shows for Yuv-Vani channel.

As they say, history repeats itself....

My son is now a RJ in our local radio station and he's loving every bit of it :-)

I'm glad he's loving it :-) and I hope he continues entertaining the masses.

I like the way he RJs but I wish some Hindi songs were played as it's all English music here.

That's all for now. The sun is calling me and so I better be going....

Regards
APARNA

Chanda (Moon)

Chanda Dekhe Chanda - beautiful song - how can I not share this with you? :-)

Enjoy this dulcet duet by Lata and Kishore. Those were the days of nice, simple movies....

Nostalgia beckons. I love the visuals of this song.

Rekha, Raj Babbar, Amol Palekar, Supriya Pathak, Deven Verma and Prema Narayan - they all look good.

I would have liked this song to be lipsynched by Amol Palekar as Kishore's voice suits him more.

I think Raj Babbar is more suited to Rafi's voice. That is my view. Yours may differ.

Let me now leave you with this song and see if you enjoy and if you do, then

Happy Humming :-)

Love,

Aparna

Wishing you all....

a lovely weekend with this lovely song coming your way :-)

Hope you like it as much as I do or perhaps more than I do.

Beautiful lyrics by Gulzar, wonderful music by R.D. Burman and superb rendition by Kishore and Asha

It's from the movie Ratnadeep (1979)

It's one of my all-time favourite songs and it's so soothing that it comes naturally to me and I keep humming, feeling at peace with myself.

Music knows no barriers and sometimes I don't even remember the lyrics but the music is so sweet and lilting that it has a healing effect on me.

All the stresses of life wash away....being washed by a musical waterfall :-)

Sometimes I think my mind is like the Vividh Bharati Sewa of All India Radio because I wake up with some music in my mind; while I'm working, music comes to me, and while I'm dozing off at night, music lullabies me. So many songs keep flooding my mind, one after the other, it's like a non-stop jukebox, but some songs like this one....Kabhi Kabhi Sapna Lagta Hai....keeps repeating itself like a harmonious tune that is so very calming, pleasing....and relaxing.

So here's the song



Hope you enjoy :-)

Happy Listening :)

Love,
Aparna

Very Sweet Song :-)

Came across this song while doing one of my playlists and it's such a sugary-sweet song that I can't stop humming it :-)

It's from Anand Aur Anand (1984), Lyrics by Anjaan, Music by R.D. Burman and sung by my beloved Kishore :-)

Smita Patil looks nice in this song though Dev Anand seems to have lost his debonair looks.

However, both of them, stalwarts as they were in the world of movies, played their part well.

Viewing this song makes you go down memory lane....when they existed.

Now they are no more, their memories remain with us and nice visuals such as these songs.

So hope you enjoy this nice song - and if you do, let's thank the creativity of all these people who've left us with such a beautiful legacy - the makers of this product - Anjaan, R.D. Burman, Kishore, Dev Anand and Smita Patil - good teamwork, I must say. Needs a lot of compatibility :-)
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And now before I take leave of you, here are some Quotes, old and new, for you :-)

Enlightenment is a destructive process. It has nothing to do with becoming better or being happier. Enlightenment is the crumbling away of untruth. It’s seeing through the facade of pretense. It’s the complete eradication of everything we imagined to be true. - Adyashanti

We’ve all heard the saying, stop and smell the roses. But it would be far better to be the gardener who grows the roses and lives with them constantly. - Deepak Chopra

Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it. - William Arthur Ward

We relish news of our heroes, forgetting that we are extraordinary to somebody too. - Helen Hayes

What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals. - Johann Wolfang von Goethe

Sometimes people don't fight to win. They just fight to survive. - Aparna Chatterjee

Having to grieve. Some people think there is a time limit or a timeframe. It could take a lifetime to accept someone we love passing away. - Lisa Marie

In animals, it’s not separating a monkey from any companion, it’s separating them from a preferred companion. When we do that, we see the same effects in those monkeys that we see in humans; they feel lonely. - Dr. John Cacioppo

The sweetest of all sounds is praise. - Xenophon

I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end. - Margaret Thatcher

The truth you believe and cling to makes you unavailable to hear anything new. - Pema Chodron

When one teaches, two learn. - Robert Half

Remember that there is no magic wand that can take away the pain and grief. The best any of us can do is to be there and be supportive. - Marilyn Mendoza

The world is wrong. You can’t put the past behind you. It’s buried in you; it’s turned your flesh into its own cupboard. - Claudia Rankine

Many suffer from the incurable disease of writing, and it becomes chronic in their sick minds. - Juvenal

The belief that one's own view of reality is the only reality is the most dangerous of all delusions. - Paul Watzlawick

A soft refusal is not always taken, but a rude one is immediately believed. - Alexander Chase

A lucky man is rarer than a white crow. - Juvenal

Silent gratitude isn't very much to anyone. - Gertrude Stein

Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face. - Victor Hugo

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations. - Benjamin Disraeli

Cherish your human connections. At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, winning one more verdict or not closing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with a husband, a child, a friend or a parent. - Barbara Bush

Till next time,
Take Care :-)

Cheers
Aparna

Love This Song :-)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XhRcWwPrWLg

A cute duet sung by Mohit Chauhan and Alisha Chinai

Came across this song while making another playlist for you.

It's got some magical melodies by the musician Rajesh Roshan who's the uncle of the famous Bollywood actor Hrithik Roshan.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAP2Wr4O1Jak2CyGZKRIs_tWPgyiOeVli

Leaving you today with these beautiful songs which will take you down memory lane....as Rajesh Roshan has been composing music since the 1970s

But before I go, let me also give you a nice movie suggestion - the one that we enjoyed watching last Sunday.

It's the British-American comedy film About a Boy (2002). We've always known Hugh Grant (playing Will Freeman in this movie) to be a brilliant actor and so as expected, he played his part very well but what amazed us was the role of a 12 year old boy played by Nicholas Hoult. He was simply superb !!! Such a natural talent at such a young age - amazing !!!

And as always, let me bid you goodbye with some nice quotes that I've selected from my newspaper NPPQ

Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all. - Sam Ewing

This is your road. Some people may walk it with you, but no one will walk it for you. - Ameer Mohammed Ismail

Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest. - Helen Rowland

Some people ask the secret of our long marriage. We take time to go to a restaurant two times a week. A little candlelight, dinner, soft music and dancing. She goes Tuesdays, I go Fridays. - Henny Youngman

A man's heart may have a secret sanctuary where only one woman may enter, but it is full of little anterooms which are seldom vacant. - Helen Rowland

People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily. - Zig Ziglar

When a man spends his time giving his wife criticism and advice instead of compliments, he forgets that it was not his good judgment, but his charming manners, that won her heart. - Helen Rowland

If you are really thankful, what do you do? You share. - W. Clement Stone

That's all my sharing for now,

Au Revoir
APARNA

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Preity and Ness

A lot is
Brewing
Between
Preity and
Ness, that's
Landed them
In some kind
Of mess that's
Causing them
A lot of distress
To top it all, they
Are being hounded
By the pesky Press.

I wish them well
And I hope they
Can soon clean up
This mess and
Again climb up the
Ladder of success.


Reviving some romantic memories of this talented actress, here are some melodious Preity Zinta songs you can enjoy :-)





Preity and Ness - Image(c)gettyimages.com (courtesy - Boloji)

Preity and Ness - Poetry © Aparna Chatterjee 2014

Request

You've
Rested
For a
Long time
In heaven

Now, please
Come down
And make us
Feel in heaven
With your
Heavenly
Voice...

That is
Listener's
Choice -
For without
You, fans like
Me have simply
No choice

So please come down
And make us rejoice :)
With your heavenly voice


(dedicated to my beloved Kishore; thought of this poem while listening to my all-time favourite song of his - Aamar Moner Ei Moyur Mohole)



'Request' Poem © Aparna Chatterjee 2014

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