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Aayi bahaar muskuraayi bahaar
Posted on: November 12, 2010
Here is an A grade song from a B grade movie called “Roop Kumari” (1956). This movie had Shakila and Mahipal in lead roles. Considering that the song is sung by Geeta Dutt, it can be assumed that the song was picturised on Shakila.
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From the name, this movie “Shree Ganesh Mahima” (1950) appears a B grade small budget movie and indeed that is what it was. The musical team of this movie consisted of S N Tripathi as music director and Anjum Jaipuri as the lyricist.
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I have not counted the number of songs sung by Rafi for Shammi Kapoor, but it is high time I did that. There are so many of them, and it is amazing how Rafi could summon so much energy and enthusiasm every single time he had to sing a song for Shammi Kapoor. Just about everyone of these songs are gems, that have stood the test of time.
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I was neither aware of this movie called “Ye Dil Kisko Doon” (1963) nor this song from the movie. But the obscurity of this movie is easily explainable when you find out who the lead actor of this movie is. It is Shashi Kapoor- enough said. 😀
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Lagan tose laagi balmaa
Posted on: November 11, 2010
“Dekh Kabeeraa Royaa” (1957) has several nice songs in it. So far I have discussed three very well known songs (iconic songs) from this movie.
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Laut gayaa gham ka zamaanaa
Posted on: November 10, 2010
Most songs discussed in this blog are songs that are well known. Then there are songs that are lessser known. On the other end of the spectrum, there are songs which are so rare that not too many people are aware of their existence.
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“Sharmilee” (1971) was one of those movies that I lived a lot. This movie and its songs came about at a time when Kishore Kumar and R D Burman had taken the Hindi movie music world by storm. I also happened to be at an impressionable age (8-12 year age group) which meant that I was highly impressed and influenced by the music of that time. Forget me, even the so called grown ups turned out to be just as impressionable as me, as far as liking Kishore Kumar-R D Burman brand of music was concerned.
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Initially I thought that this movie “Bhabhi” (1957) only had one great song, viz. Chal ud ja re panchchi but with time I realised that this movie was full of memorable songs in it. By now I have discussed as many as five songs from “Bhabhi” (1957) in this blog.
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Ae dilrubaa nazren milaa
Posted on: November 2, 2010
In my bid to post all Sajjad Hussain songs, here is a song from “Rustam Sohrab” (1963) which is popularly (but incorrectly) considerded as the last movie of Sajjad Hussain as music director.
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I have not discussed a Shammi Kapoor style song in this blog for quite some time. No, it is not because I have run out of such songs. There are still many such songs that are yet to be covered.
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