Archive for the ‘Rafi-Asha Bhonsle duet’ Category
Here is a song from “Punar Milan” (1964). “Punar Milan” (1964) was a B grade movie and the makers of this movie saved money as far as hiring artists was concerned. Considering the talent available on the music scene, hiring talented out of work music director was not a problem, but hiring a lesser actor like Jagdeep as the hero of this movie proved counter productive.
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O chhaliyaa re chhaliyaa re
Posted on: July 23, 2010
In my bid to clear the backlog of old farmaishes, here is a song whose farmaish was given by Raja more than one year back. Apart from my usual excuses for not being able to post it earlier (too many songs to be posted, I am too lazy etc), locating the video link of this song was a problem too. Now that I have been able to locate this song and I am trying to clear the backlog of farmaishes, here is this song from “Ganga Jamuna” (1961).
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Ye khaamoshiyaan ye tanhaayiyaan
Posted on: July 22, 2010
Here is a song whose farmaish was given by Raja more than a year back. And as often happens with me, I may have listened to this song in passing in the past, but it is only now that I have seriously listened to this song.
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Rickshey pe mere tum aa baithe
Posted on: July 17, 2010
Out of all the modes of public transport, tri wheeler Cycle rickshaw (popularly called Rickshaw) has been one of the most popular mode of transport of most Indians for several decades. This kind of rickshaw is ubiquitous in Indian cities even today, except in some metropilital cities where it is not allowed. You can see cycle rickshaw in Old Delhi, but not in New Delhi, for example.
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Bana de bana de bana de Prabhu ji
Posted on: July 15, 2010
In my series of songs from the movie “Phagun” (1958), here is the 11th and final song from the movie.
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Jaa jaa meri chhod de kalaayi
Posted on: July 10, 2010
In “Phagun”(1958), Not all songs were picturised on Bharat Bhushan and Madhubala.
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Main soyaa ankhiyaan meenche
Posted on: July 8, 2010
I am posting the songs of “Phaagun” (1958) these days. Here is another song from this movie.
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“Love In Shimla” (1960) has a song that is basically a recitation of the Urdu alphabet that goes “Alif Zabar aa alif zer ae alif pesh o” which is sort of like ” A se anaar aa se aam” of Hindi or “A for apple B for Bat…” in English. For one who has studied Urdu, writing down the lyrics of this song would be a cakewalk. I am not familiar with the Urdu alphabet and as a result, the lyrics of this song is Greek (rather Urdu) to me. I had planned to post this song in the past, but I could not do so mostly because I was unable to follow the lyrics.
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Music plays a very important part in Bollywood movies. In many movies of the past, it is the music that helped these movies and their actors get popular with the public. That way, most of the popular actors of those days owe much of their popularity to the music of the movies they acted in.
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Tiki riki tiki riki taakuri
Posted on: May 25, 2010
One normally associates Ghazals and serious songs with Madan Mohan, but that does not mean that Madan Mohan could not create other kinds of songs, including light hearted songs. One certainly does not associate a Helen-Asha Bhonsle party song with Madan Mohan, but here is one such song.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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