Archive for September 2013
This article is written by nahm, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
So we reach the alphabet ‘H’ in this series of A to Z of Rafi songs. There are around 350 songs beginning with ‘H’ in the excel sheets listing Rafi sahab’s songs. At a guess, some 125 songs beginning with this alphabet are already posted in the blog. Among the remaining songs, I have zoomed in on this qawwali from ‘Ham kisi se kam nahin’. As far as this series is concerned, this will be the second song from this movie from 1977. Now, I have many reasons for choosing again a song from this film after ‘chaand mera dil chandni ho tum ‘.
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“Apne Rang Hazaar” (1975) was directed by Ravi Tandon. The movie had Sanjeev Kumar, Leena Chandawarkar, Danny, Bindu, Asrani, Helen, Kamini Kaushal, Paintal, Janki Das etc in it.
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O meharbaan dekho zara
Posted on: September 2, 2013
Today (2 september 2013) is the birth anniversary of Sadhana, the heart throb of movie goers in 1960s, whose “Sadhana cut” hairstyle was a big craze those days. She had a dream run in 1960s and then she suffered an ailment that forced her to take a break from movies. By the time she came back, the movie world had moved on and had passed her by. That is how it is in the movie world.
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Arre bus mein nazar takraai
Posted on: September 2, 2013
We have discussed over two thousand songs of Rafi in this blog which adds up to just over 40 % of all the songs that he has sung in Hindi movies. Many of these songs are extremely well known songs, but at the same time we have also come across some totally unheard of songs. It no longer surprises me or regulars of this blog when we come across Rafi songs that we had never heard before.
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Chhanak chhanak chhan boley
Posted on: September 2, 2013
This article is written by Arunkumar Deshmukh, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular conributor to this blog.
This is the 7th song in the series ” Music Directors sing for other Music Directors “.
It is a song from the film Harihar Bhakti-1956, sung by Composer Snehal Bhatkar for the film’s Music Director K Datta or Datta Korgaonkar.
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If one has to classify songs on the basis of their popularity then we have extremely well known timeless classics on the one end of scale to totally obscure forgotten gems on the other end of the scale. In fact, one can liken them to human settlements, that vary from extremely densely populated to extremely thinly populated. So one can say that iconic well known songs like “Mere sapnon ki raani kab aayegi tu” is like a metropolitan city, say Mumbai. On the other end, we have deserted places that few people know about. Visiting some of these thinly populated/ deserted places could be extremely rewarding. Forgotten songs of Hindi movies are very much like that.
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Raat baaqi baat baaqi
Posted on: September 1, 2013
“Namak Halaal” (1982) was produced by Satyendra Pal and directed by Prakash Mehra. The movie had Amitabh Bachchan, Shashi Kapoor, Smita Patil, Parveen Babi, Waheeda Rehman, Ranjeet, Satyen Kappu etc in it.
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Ajeeb zindagi hai ye
Posted on: September 1, 2013
“Door Nahin Manzil”(1973), though a recent movie by the standards of this blog is an obscure movie. This movie was an International Enterprises production. It was directed by Hari Walia. The movie had Sanjeev Kumar, Reshma, Durga Khote, Pradeep Kumar, Fariyal, Manmohan, Hina, Maruti, Suresh etc in it.
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This article is written by Arunkumar Deshmukh, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
This is the 6th song in the series, “Music Directors sing for other Music Directors”.
The song selected today is from the film TAJ AUR TALWAR,-1956, sung by composer Hemant kumar, for Music Director Sudipta.
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“Raaz” (1967) was a Sippy Films Production. It was directed by Ravindra Dave. The movie had Rajesh Khanna, Babita, I S Johar, Khurshid, D. K. Sapru, Kamal Kapoor, Ratnamala, Narmada Shankar, Asit Sen, Meena T., Laxmi Chhaya, Surjeet Bedi, Rahul, Harindranath Chattopadhyay, Pandharibai, Harbans Darshan M. Arora etc in it.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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