Archive for the ‘Rafi-Asha Bhonsle duet’ Category
Dil hai aapkaa huzoor
Posted on: October 1, 2009
“Jaali Note” (1960) was a movie starring Dev Anand and Madhubala. The movie unfortunately flopped and that is the reason why this movie is not all that well known.
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Aap jabse kareeb aaye hain
Posted on: September 17, 2009
I was not even aware of this movie called “Noor Jahaan” (1967). I became aware of this movie only after I got a farmaish for a song of this movie.
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“Kyaa ye Bombay hai ?” (1959) is as obscure a movie as any. This C grade movie had Maruti and Nishi in lead roles.
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Kaun ye aaya mehfil mein
Posted on: September 14, 2009
This song is neither written by Hasrat Jaipuri nor composed by Shankar Jaikishan. But this song sounds like a Shammi Kapoor song, and it looks like a Shammi Kapoor song, because other ingredients are very much there. Rafi is the singer, Asha Parekh is there, and most important of them all, Shammi Kapoor himself is there in this song.
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There have been three movies called “Ziddi” over the years that I am aware of. These movies were released in 1948, 1964 and 1997. “Ziddi” (1948) and “Ziddi” (1964) have some very fine songs and I have posted songs from both these movies in this blog. The 1997 movie of this name is not noted for any great songs, rather this movie is known for a dialogue of Sunni Deol, that went- “ye dhaayi kilo ka haath jab kisi pe uthta hai to wo uthtaa nahin, uth jaata hai” (when this 2 1/2 kilo fist comes down upon someone, he cannot get up, he can only go up). 😉 It is not music for the ears of the baddies, that is for sure.
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I recall this song from my younger days. This has to be the ultimate chaayaageet song. I recall listening to this song emanating from radios late at night after 10 PM and wondering why they had to play such boring songs at that time. And now, when I stumbled upon this song again, I felt like I had discovered a great treasure.
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Husn waale husn ka anjaam dekh
Posted on: August 29, 2009
“Barsaat Ki Raat” (1960) was a movie that had only qawwali, qawwali and more qawwali. And this movie turned out to be a big hit.
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Yahi hai wo saanjh aur saweraa
Posted on: August 25, 2009
Guru Dutt and Meena Kumari were two individuals who started their careers playing lighthearted sunny characters but then they began to play tragic roles. They got so immersed in such roles that their real lives too became an extension of their reel life tragedy roles.
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All these days, I thought that I had posted most songs of “Kashmir Ki Kali” (1964) in this blog. It turns out that I was mistaken. So these days I have decided to post the missing songs of this movie.
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