Archive for the ‘Rafi-Asha Bhonsle duet’ Category
“Suraj” (1966) starring Rajendra Kumar and Vyjyantimala was the biggest music blockbuster of the year. I have posted a few songs from this movie already.
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Bollywood movies are supposed to be Hindi movies and their censor certificate mentions them as such. If one looks at the censor certificates of movies, one finds that a few movie are certified not as Hindi but as Urdu, For instance Nassir Hussain blockbuster “ham Kisi se ka nahin” is described as an Urdu movie by its censor certificate.
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Adaayen jab hon latkedaar
Posted on: July 1, 2009
This is a song from a 1958 movie called “Khota Paisa”. It is sung by Asha Bhonsle and Rafi. If one listens to the song, it appears a quintessential O P Nayyar tune.
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If one listens to just the audio of this song, it sounds unmistakably like a song from a Shammi Kapoor movie. The song is sung by Rafi and Asha Bhonsle, Lyrics is by Hasrat Jaipuri, music is by Shankar Jaikishan. It all seems to add up. The song even has Rafi shouting “Hurray” (reminiscent of “Yaahoo” in an earlier Shammi Kapoor movie)
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Saare shahar mein aap saa
Posted on: June 28, 2009
I have listened to this song many a times in 1970s. It was a popular song from “Bairaag” (1976). In fact, quite a few songs from this movie went on to become popular.
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Bahut shukriya badi meharbaani
Posted on: June 16, 2009
There was Shammi Kapoor and then there were his clones acting in movies that strived to be like Shammi Kapor movies.
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Le de sainya odhni Panjaabi
Posted on: June 11, 2009
The farmaish for this song was a long pending farmaish from October 2008, and I was unable to comply with it because the video of this song was not available all these days. The fact that I had myself never herad this song meant that I too was quite eager to listen to this song.
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Meri dulhan aayi sang doli na kahaar
Posted on: June 1, 2009
I have mentioned it in the past that Ganesh was a music director who deserved much better than what he achieved in Bollywood. He was just as talented if not more than Pyarelal (of Laxmikant Pyarelal fame, who was his brother).
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Dara Singh, an Arnold Schwarznegger like personality to Indians of 1950s to 1970s, acted in many C grade movies. And as happens with such movies. neither the movie, nor its songs reach the mainstream audience, and majority of people remain oblivious of their exisatence.
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“Gehra Daagh” was a movie of 1963. I was not aware about this movie till recently ( that is till yesterday).
This movie had Rajendra Kumar and Mala Sinha in lead roles.
Just because I was not aware of this movie does not mean this movie has unknown songs. Take this song from this movie. This song “tumhe paake hamne jahaan paa liyaa hai” is a duet sung by Asha Bhonsle and Rafi. I am sure that I have listened to this song many a times in the past, though I was not paying much attention on those occasions.
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