Archive for the ‘Duet’ Category
Ude jab jab zulfein teri
Posted on: February 5, 2009
“Naya Daur” was quite a path breaking movie in the history of Bollywood movies.
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Sajna saath nibhaana
Posted on: February 5, 2009
When it comes to singing songs or appearing in songs, it is only the lead actors who figure in songs. In some cases, bit actors too are seen singing a few songs. But when it comes to villains, there are very few songs featuring them.
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Jab liya haath mein haath
Posted on: February 4, 2009
“Vachan” was a movie produced by Devendra Goel. This movie was also the debut movie of Ravi as a music director. Ravi, who was till then an assistant of Hemant Kumar made a mark as an independent music director with this movie and he never looked back since.
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Ye kisne geet chheda
Posted on: February 4, 2009
The movie “meri soorat teri aankhen” (1963) was full of some very nice songs. I have already posted two outstanding semi classical songs from this movie- sung by Rafi and Manna Dey respectively.
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O rabba khair
Posted on: February 3, 2009
I thought that I knew about all Rafi-Shammi Kapoor songs and there were hardly any more songs left for me to be discovered.
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Tum rooth ke mat jaana
Posted on: February 3, 2009
This is a lovely song in all respects. The movie is “Phagun” (1958 ) and the song is an O P Nayyar composition sung by Rafi and Asha Bhonsle. Qamar Jalalabadi is the lyricist.
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When one listens to old song, one needs to have some appreciation of history, otherwise one tends to judge old songs by present day standards and thus he/ she may do grave injustice to old songs while making hasty judgements about them.
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It is a very long song, which is one second short of 10 minutes long. And the song is so nice to listen to that these 9:55 minutes pass in a trice. Initially Asha Bhonsle sings the song and towards the second half of the song, Kishore Kumar makes a cameo appearance.
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This is a “bus” song where Dev Anand is the bus driver and Sadhana is the only passenger. The bus goes in a deserted place and very conveniently conks off.
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