Archive for the ‘Rafi-Geeta Dutt duet’ Category
Here is yet another song that I heard for the first time only just now. And I loved the song immediately.
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Bollywood movies typically sell on the name of their Hero/ Heroine. Then there were movies that sold because of the music.
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When there are many great songs in a movie, and there are several movies like that, it is easy to lose track of songs that one has posted and that are not yet posted. I have posted several songs from CID (1956) and I thought I had posted this song too. But I just realised that I had not posted this song.
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It has been pointed out to me that this song was missing from this blog. In fact there are so many nice songs that are yet to be posted, and it will take time before I am able to do justice to all these songs. One can only try and post as many of these songs as one can, and hope that time takes care of the rest.
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This song “ghareeb jaan ke na tum haman mita dena” from “Chhoomantar” (1956) is one song from this movie that is well known to me for the last thirty years. This song is one of those songs that I had noted down in my diary of 1970s in which I used to note down the songs that I liked those days.
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This song “jaane kahaan mera jigar gayaa ji” is a very well known song. One may not be aware of the movie of this song, but everyone is aware of this song.
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Unse rippi tippi ho gayi
Posted on: September 16, 2009
“Agra Road” (1957) is a very obscure movie. Neither this movie nor its songs are known to too many people now a days.
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It is difficult to associate Guru Dutt with anything but a sad song, that too in a movie like “Pyyasa”. But it is a fact that he does not just sing melancholic songs in this movie. He sings romantic songs as well, difficult though it may be to believe.
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Taam tai thaiyyaa
Posted on: August 28, 2009
“Panchaayat” (1958) is not a movie that will ring too many bells. This was a movie with Raj Kumar and Shyama in lead roles. If this movie deserves to be remembered, then it would be for its music. This movie had music by Iqbal Qureshi. Shakeel Numani was the lyricist.
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