Archive for the ‘Rafi Suraiyya duet’ Category
“Khilaadi” (1950) is a Talwar Films presentation. The star cast of the movie had names like Ashok Kumar, Suraiya, Kumar, Indu, E. Tarapore, Anoop Kumar, Narbada Shanker, Sunder, Cuckoo etc in it.
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Dil ko haay dil ko
Posted on: February 2, 2012
“Daastaan” (1950) which was a Musical Pictures Production, was directed by A R Kardar. Apart from Raj Kapoor and Suraiyya, this movie also had Pratima Devi, Al Nasir, Murad, Veena, Suresh, Shakila etc in it.
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Ta ra ri aa ra ri
Posted on: December 25, 2011
If 24th december was the birthday of Rafi then his close musical associate Naushad was not too far behind. Naushad was born on 25th december !
So today (25th december) is the day when we in this blog will pay our musical tributes to Naushad, the great pioneer in the field of Hindi movie music.
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Taaron bhari raat hai par tu nahin
Posted on: July 17, 2011
I am aware with a movie called “Kaajal” (1965) and I have discussed a few songs from this movie. It turns out that there was another older movie of the same name that was released in 1948.
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Ye raat ye nazaarey
Posted on: July 10, 2011
I am vaguely aware of this Hindi movie title called “Trolley Driver” (1958) and I have wondered about what this movie is all about. To this day, I am not much aware of the star cast of this movie or its story line.
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Ae ishq hamen barbaad na kar
Posted on: June 15, 2011
“Naach” (1949) is a movie that I have become aware of only recently and I havre discussed one wonderful song from this movie.
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“Balam” (1949) is a movie starring Wasti,Suraiyya,Jayant,Masud,Nigar Sultana,Agha etc and several of these names do not ring any bells for most music lovers, that is how old this movie is.
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I have discussed as many as six songs of “Shama Parwaana” (1954) in these pages. But there are still more songs from this movie that are yet to be covered.
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Main keh doon tum ko chor
Posted on: October 18, 2010
Playful romantic songs, especially those that are picturised on a pair of actors who were actually romantically involved always makes for good listen/watch. Dev Anand and Suraiyya were one of the first such on screen couple.
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Sare mehfil jo jalaa parwaanaa
Posted on: September 15, 2010
Indian folklore has some well known love stories like “Laila Majnu”, “Shirin Farhad” etc. and Hindi movie makers tend to make movies on these characters on quite a regular basis. We had quite a few movies on them from 1940s till 1970s.
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