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Chaand kanwal mere chaand kanwal
Posted on: August 1, 2012
Meena Kumari, whose birth anniversary falls today (1 august) was not a legendary actress for nothing. She is well known ,and even typedcast in public mind for her melancholic roles, but she was very good in other roles as well.
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This article is written by nahm, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
This song is from the film ‘Raaz’, the year is 1967. It is a duet by Mohammed Rafi and Krishna Kalle. It is picturized on the hero Rajesh Khanna and heroine Babita. The composer is the duo Kalyanji Anandji and lyricist is Akhtar Romani. There are two unknown or should I say less known persons connected with this song. The female playback singer and the lyricist. I would have identified Krishna Kalle with the song “meri hasraton ki duniyaa” which is a duet with Rafi from the film “Gaal gulaabi nain sharaabi”, but that was before I heard this duet song from ‘Raaz’. This must be the high point and defining moment in her career where she is getting to sing a song for an ‘A’ grade MD, heroine and Film. This film has a very well known song which is posted here.
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Mohe ratiyaa neend na aaye
Posted on: August 1, 2012
These days people fight elections to come to power and once they get a taste for it, then want to cling to it at any cost. During mythological times, the King of gods, viz Lord Indra would cling to his chair like a leech. One did not have to fight elections to come to power those days. One needed to do tapasya (penance) in a jungle for long years. Whenever a tapaswi sage would decide to go to a jungle and do “tapasya”, Lord Indra would get worried, thinking that the sage was after his chair. So he would try to disrupt the “tapasya”.
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Janam din aayaa aayaa
Posted on: August 1, 2012
“Bahaaron Ki Manzil” (1968) was a Rizvi Brothers production. It was produced by Sibte Hasan Rizvi and directed by Yakub Hasan Rizvi. The movie had Meena Kumari, Dharmendra, Rehman, Farida Jalal, TunTun, Mallika, Polson, Wasti, Anwar Hashmi, Shefali, Sheikh, Ramayan Tiwari etc in it.
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Gham nahin gar zindagi veeraan hai
Posted on: August 1, 2012
Today (1 August) is Meena Kumari’s (1 August 1932- 31 march 1972) birth anniversary. She achieved so much despite passing away so young. Incredibly, she had a thirty year long acting career beginning from the age of seven ! She acted in nearly ninety movies. She began to act in adult roles from 1949 onwards and her breakthrough came in 1952 with “Baiju Baawra” (1952). She won the inaugural Filmfare best actress award for this performance.
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Today (1 august) is the birth anniversary of Meena Kumari ( 1 august 1932- 31 march 1972). It is unimaginable to realise that she did not even reach the age of 40 ! She achieved so much in her brief stay in this world and she went on to become a legend.
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Sooni sooni lag rahi hai
Posted on: July 31, 2012
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Remembering Rafi Saab on the anniversary of his passing away today. And also, remembering Dara Singh ji, who left this earthly abode, nineteen days ago, 12 July earlier this month. This song brings to mind the memories of both these stalwarts together.
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Ham tum jise kehta hai shaadi
Posted on: July 31, 2012
This article is written by Raja, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Of the several signs that I am losing it now, one of the surest signs has got to be when I forget the anniversaries of people or events close to my heart.
I normally pride myself on remembering dates – in fact I surprise my friends sometimes when I mention dates of events or anniversaries that they don’t expect me to remember. These are dates that have just stuck in my mind when I first came across them, e.g. 18th May 1974 being the famous date of the Pokhran nuclear explosion . Or, 24th October 1945 being the date the United Nations (U.N) came into existence. (18th May also happens to be the birthday of one of the favourite cricketers from my childhood days – B.S. Chandrasekhar. And 24th October also happens to be the birthday of our dear memsaab (of memsaabstory.com). So see, it isn’t all that difficult to remember dates! 🙂
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Navkalpana nav roop se
Posted on: July 31, 2012
Rafi has sung songs for lots and lots of music directors, be they big names or unknown strugglers. I have not kept a count but I am sure that Rafi may have sung for the largest number of music directors among all major playback singers and that way he is a trivia buff’s delight.
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Dost ban ke aaye ho
Posted on: July 31, 2012
“Bin Phere Ham Tere” (1979) was an N P International production. It was produced by N P Singh and directed by Rajat Rakshit. The movie had Vinod Mehra, Sarika, Rajendra kumar, Asha Parekh, Nadira, Nazneen, Kamal Kapoor, Johnny whisky, C.S.Dubey, Mushthaq Merchant, Jagadish Raj, Janki Dass etc in it.
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