Archive for the ‘Rafi-Lata duet’ Category
This song from “Kohinoor”(1960) is an ultimate “Chhaayaageet” song which is my way of saying that this romantic song is ideal for listening to at late night. And indeed many listeners may have listened to this song in the late night “Vividh Bharati” programme of this name.
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Koi pyaar ki dekhe jaadugari
Posted on: August 7, 2010
I was recently informed by Lalitha that many “Kohinoor” (1960) songs are missing from the blog. In fact, many songs from many movies are missing, if you think about that. 😀
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Aaj huaa meraa dil matwaalaa
Posted on: August 5, 2010
“Chhote Nawaab” (1961) was R D Burman’s debut movie. He was given this break by Mehmood, and the rest, as they say, was history.
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O sanam tere ho gaye ham
Posted on: August 3, 2010
Here is another popular song of its day which I thought I had already posted, but it is easy to get one’s facts wrong when there are so many nice songs to be posted. I have posted several songs of this genre as well as from this movie but this song was so far left out.
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Chaand jaane kahaan kho gayaa
Posted on: July 20, 2010
Today, when I am looking at the list of old farmaishes that I have yet to comply, I came across this song “Chaand jaane kahaan kho gayaa”. When I listened to this song, I wondered how I had failed to post this song till today.
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Kyaa raat suhaani hai
Posted on: July 16, 2010
These days I am posting songs from “Alif Laila” (1953). Here is another song from this movie.
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Badraa chaaye..aaya saawan jhoom ke
Posted on: July 15, 2010
In western cultures, only one day in the spring season , called Valentine’s day is dedicated for love. In Indian culture , on the other hand, an entire season, viz the rainy season is the season of love. It did not begin with the advent of Bollywood movies. Even in ancient Sanskrit novels, for instance in Kalidas’ “meghdoot”, we find the rainy season described as the season when there is love in the air.
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Khaamosh kyun ho taaron
Posted on: July 14, 2010
Recently I stumbled upon the songs of “Alif Laila” (1953) and found that this songs were wonderful to listen to.
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“Banarasi Thug” (1962) was a B grade movie with Manoj Kumar and Vijaya Chaudhary in lead roles. The movie was B grade, but there were so many underemployed talented music directors those days that movie makers had no trouble getting A grade music composed even in B and C grade movies.
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How many of us have heard of this movie called “Jhoola” ? I had not, and I guessed that a movie by this name must be from early 1950s, since this title rhymed with titles of those days, viz “Mela”, “Jhamelaa” etc.
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