Archive for 2014
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Rafi Sb – In The Seventies – 21
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(1970s Unreleased – Solo)
Ah yes, I am sure you would have guessed it already. When I wrote yesterday that the series is not yet complete, and given that all years in the decade are covered, then what is left are the unreleased songs from this decade. Films that got planned, music and songs got arranged and recorded, but the films either did not get made, were abandoned, or were not released, for various reasons. And as experience has told us time and again, such unreleased songs are a fabulous treasure by themselves. They form a very interesting category, in that the songs have been created, recorded and also released, sometimes formally and sometimes informally. They are away from the mainstream attention, since the films never came to the theatres, and their familiarity in the minds of general public is low. Most of these unreleased songs were first heard on radio, occasionally. They have remained in memory, albeit without any memory of information about them. Sometimes, they are also mislabeled in the mind’s catalog as non-film songs. Simply because they are not associated with any familiar or even obscure film names.
And so, the last two offerings of this series are two very fabulous songs from unreleased films from the decade of 1970. As I am sifting through the list of unreleased films in Geet Kosh, and in the song folders of unreleased films in my collection, I find such a huge treasures of absolute gems of top quality that have been recorded, but never came into the mainstream broadcast or record sales. Blissfully, they are available. Once again, I am spoilt for choices, even with the comparatively smaller sample size in this category, and finding it difficult to choose one. But I have to. And for the solo, I have chosen this wonderful poetical gem from the unreleased film ‘Insaan Aur Insaan’.
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Jai jawaan jai kisaan
Posted on: October 2, 2014
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Today (2 october 2014) is the birthday of Mahatma Gandhi and Lal Bahadur Shashtri. And this time it is a day when this day is being celebrated differently. A massive nationwise cleanliness campaign is being launched this day and it is expected to create awareness among masses to keep their premises clean. “swaachh Bharat Swasth Bharat” is the slogan. This is a movement that is launched with the expectation and people will slowly and steadily open their eyes to cleanliness so that in five years time, when we celebrate Mahatma Gandhi’s 150th birth anniversary, India is a clean nation. Amen to that !
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Aashaaon ke saawan mein
Posted on: October 1, 2014
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a contributor to this blog. This article is meant to be posted in atulsongaday.me. If this article appears in sites like lyricstrans.com and ibollywoodsongs.com etc then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.
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Rafi Sb – In The Seventies – 20
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(1980 – Duet)
A brief and approximate view of the numbers from Rafi Sb’s career. I am basing this view on the data available in the Rafi Song list, and from browsing of the Geet Kosh. In the 1940s, starting from 1945 and upto 1950, his film songs number less than 200, approximately in the range of 165 to 170. Then in the 1950s, this number rises dramatically. An approximation is 1370 film songs in that decade. In the 1960s, we see a further improvement in this number – the approximate number of songs as per records is 1500, plus or minus 10. As we come into the 70s, there is a drop in this number. The records show that there are approximately 1025 songs in the decade from 1971 to 1980. I would like to add that these numbers also include the known songs from unreleased films, i.e. songs that were recorded for films, but the films either did not get made or were not released.
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Rafi Sb – In The Seventies – 19
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(1980 – Solo)
It was 1980 that we lost this precious human being and an inimitable, pure and natural artist, to the directions of the Power that we humans do not understand. His gift of the voice and emotional empathy was bestowed by Him, and He chose to call back this endowment to the humanity. With all the hindsight and life’s experience we do understand the inevitability of this event, and our inability to do anything about it. Nothing but resigned acceptance is what we can offer. But in Rafi Sb’s case, one question does keep nagging, with regret – ‘Did it have to be so soon?’. Just at 56 years of age. And a voice that simply did not age at all. Nahm ji had commented a few days back on one of the songs – Rafi Sb’s voice is sounding younger than the actor who is performing on screen (it was Dharmendra, in film ‘Dharamveer’ from 1977).
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Hey Raam hey Raam
Posted on: October 1, 2014
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“Guide” (1965) was directed by Vijay Anand for Navketal International, Bombay. This movie had Dev Anand, waheeda Rehman, Kishore Sahu, Leela Chitnis, Jaageerdaar, Anwar, Ulhas, Rasheed Khan, Parveen Paul, Poornima, Khirhan Dhawan etc in it.
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“Ishaara” (1964) was produced and directed by K Amarnath. The movie had Joy Mukherjee, Vyjayantimala, Pran, Pratima Devi, Jayanth, Azra, Subbiraj, Shammi,
Sajjan, Murad, Praveen Paul, Kesri, Hari Shivdasani, Raja Amrohi, Ruby Mayer aka Senior Sulochana, Brahm Bhardwaj, Prem Sagar, Amrit Rana, Ravikant, Agha, Mridula Rani, Raani etc in it.
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This article is written by Arunkumar Deshmukh, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a contributor to this blog. This article is meant to be posted in atulsongaday.me. If this article appears in sites like lyricstrans.com and ibollywoodsongs.com etc then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.
SONGS FROM ARTISTE NAME FILMS… Song No. 7
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Today’s song is from film Hurricane Hansa-37. This was a stunt film featuring Fearless Nadia, with her usual crew and a routine story, highlighting the thrilling stunt scenes done by her and her ‘helping assistants’- Punjab ka Beta (Horse), Austin ki beti (Dabba car) and Moti the Dog. This time we are not going to talk about Nadia or her crew etc, but we will know more about a forgotten actress Hansa- Hansa Wadkar.
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Regulars of the blog can often notice that I often pick an artist and start discussing his songs on a regular basis. For instance, I was discussing songs of Zohrabai Ambalewaali in the recent past, and then I began to discuss songs of G M Durrani. These artists were short of their centuries in the blog and I was discussing their songs to enable them to touch their three figure marks in the blog.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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