Archive for the ‘Rafi-Lata duet’ Category
Chaahe paas ho chahe door ho
Posted on: June 21, 2009
It is a very well known song from an obscure movie called “Samrat Chandragupta” (1958). Considering that this movie was a historical/ mythological fare, it must have been a B grade movie. Kalyanji was the music director of this movie. This must have been his debut movie as a music director. Later he roped in his younger brother Anandji to form their music director partnership of Kalyanji Anandji in subsequent movies.
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Saaz e dil chhed de
Posted on: June 14, 2009
Here is yet another “new” song for me though this song is older than me. Yes this song is from a movie called “Passport” (1961). I was neither aware of this song nor the movie till yesterday.
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“Tajmahal” (1963) is one movie that is one of the biggest musical blockbusters of all time. Almost every song from this movie went on to become a timeless classic. The songs of this movie became hugely popular with masses and classes both.
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Bekhudi mein sanam uth gaye jo qadam
Posted on: June 2, 2009
To this date I have not been able to understand how Shashi Kapoor has such a long and successful career. I find that most of his successful movies were multi statter movies where others contributed more to the success of the movies. Shashi Kapoor just cashed in on the success of these movies.
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In Bollywood movies, hero would give lift to the heroine, and after some time, the heroine, accusing the hero of making pass on her, would ask the car to be stopped and she would then walk out of the car.
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I have posted quite a few songs in which two characters, mostly bit actors would sing a song ( often a philosophical song), and a crowd would gather around them to watch their poerformance. After the song, some people in the crowd would part with some small change as a token of their appreciation.
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Rut bekaraar hai shaam e bahaar hai
Posted on: May 27, 2009
Here is a song from “Maa aur Mamtaa” (1970). I had never heard of this movie. Nor had I come across this song “rut bekaraar hai shaam e bahaar hai” from this movie.
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Kaahe ko bulaaya mujhe baalmaa
Posted on: May 23, 2009
I think I need to open a category of songs which I enjoyed listening to, even though I had no clue which movie they were from. Then I forgot all about these songs ( because the song alongwith its movie were forgotten) and then I stumbled upon the same song recently once more.
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