Archive for the ‘Duet’ Category
O neele parbaton ki dhaara
Posted on: April 13, 2009
“Aadmi aur Insaan” (1969) was a movie with Ravi’s music. This information is enough to conclude that the movie must be full of nice songs. And that is how it turns out to be.
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Ghar aaya mera pardesi
Posted on: April 13, 2009
“Awaara” was one of the earlier movies of Raj Kapoor, and considering that it was produced nearly 60 years ago, the special effects and the grand sets of this movie are quite spectacular.
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This extremely hummable song was sung by Rafi and Lata. The song is picturised on a very young Jagdeep, and a lady playing his love interest ( who is she ?- Nanda, I am told).
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Naghma e dil ko chhed ke
Posted on: April 11, 2009
Here is a forgotten but nice song from a forgotten movie called “Ek Raaz” (1963)
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Chhupa kar meri aankhon ko
Posted on: April 11, 2009
“Bhaabhi” (1957) has two iconic songs- one by Rafi and other by Lata.
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Chhod de patang meri chhod de
Posted on: April 11, 2009
Though it is the music director who gets most of the credit for a song, it is the assistant music director/ music arranger who does the actual legwork, and should get the real credit.
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O P Nayyar had fixed singing templates for his singers to follow. His female singers needed to sing in Asha Bhonsle style, and his male singers needed to sing in Rafi style. In case one of these singers were not available for recording the song, then the replacement singer was required to sing in the same way.
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Dam bhar jo udhar munh phere
Posted on: April 10, 2009
It is a boat song, chaayageet song, sensuous song, romantic song, all rolled into one.
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Zindagi ittafaq hai
Posted on: April 8, 2009
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“Aadmi aur insaan” (1969) had Ravi’s music. When I looked at the list of songs that I have posted from this movie, I found that I had posted just one song, and that too a “lesser” known one. Knowing Ravi, he creates a bagful of hit songs in every movie where he is the music director, many of which have gone on to become iconic songs.
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The Bollywood movie “It happened one night” was quite an “inspiring” movie. It inspired many Bollywood movies. One such movie was “Chori Chori”.
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