Archive for the ‘Duet’ Category
There have been two movies called “Sabse Bada Rupaiyya”. I was personally familiar with the Mehmood movie that was released in 1976. But the earlier movie with the same title was released in 1955.
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Jab se maine dil lagaayaa
Posted on: August 28, 2011
“Dost” title is like Halley’s comet. Halley’s comet is visible from the earth after every 86 years, and the title “Dost” can be seen after every 10 year, beginning from 1944. Thus we had the sigtings of movies called “Dost” in 1944, 1954, and 1974. In 1964, we got a title called “Dosti” instead of “Dost”.
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Ye shokh sitaare
Posted on: August 27, 2011
“Ek Thi Ladki” (1949) is a movie starring Motilal and Meena Shorey. This movie is famous for the iconic song Laara lappa laara lappa laai rakhdaa(Ek Thi Ladki). I have discussed as many as four songs from this movie, and all these songs are just outstanding.
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Mil mil ke gaayenge do dil yahaan
Posted on: August 27, 2011
“Dulaari” (1949) is a movie that starred Suresh, Geeta Bali, Madhubala etc. This movie is today known as the movie that launched the career of Rafi as a playback singer with the song Suhaani raat dhal chuki na jaane tum kab aaoge.
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Main to Dilli se dulhan laayaa re
Posted on: August 27, 2011
There are a few milestones in this blog that I eagerly look forward to. One of them is the obvious milestone of century songs. Every song that marks the completion of a century is a special song for this blog and we celebrate it by discussing a special song on that occasion. There have been 44 such occasions for this blog.
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“Cobra Girl” (1963), which is also known as “Naagdevi” is a B grade movie starring Mahipal,Tiwari,Sunder,Ragini,Mariya,Manorama etc. Like most B grade movies, this movie had outstanding songs.
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Sheeshe ka ho ke patthhar ka dil
Posted on: August 26, 2011
“Baat Ek Raat Ki” (1962) is a movie starring Dev Anand and Waheeda Rehman. When one looks at the songs of this movie, one notices that this movie had lots of singers singing lots of solos and duets. This movie had singers like Rafi,Lata, Manna Dey,Hemant Kumar,Asha Bhonsle and Suman Kalyanpuri. And this movie has duets sung by Rafi and Lata, Rafi and Asha Bhonsle, as well as Hemant Kumar and Suman Kalyanpur. In fact, Asha Bhonsle and Rafi sing as many as four duets in this movie.
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Apni kaho kuchh meri suno
Posted on: August 26, 2011
“Parchhaain” (1952) is a movie produced by Rajkamal Kalamandir. It was directed by V Shantaram and it starred V Shantaram and Sandhya. This movie had some wonderful songs in it. I have discussed four songs from this movie in the past.
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“Baazaar” (1949) is a movie that starred Nigar Sultana, Shyam, Gope,Yaqoob,Kukku etc in it. I have discussed three songs from this movie in the past.
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“Chakradhaari” (1954) is a religious/mythological movie and one expects its songs to be mainly prayers etc. And indeed there are several such songs. But this movie also has songs that are more “mainstream” in the sense that they have more to do more with human relations rather than with the Almighty.
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