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Raja recently informed me that Rafi and Geeta Dutt had sung nearly 155 duets together and that most of these duets (30) were under the music direction of Chitragupta.
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Jale na kyun parwaana
Posted on: August 14, 2012
“Anokhi Ada” (1948) was a Mehboob Production movie. It was produced and directed by Mehboob Khan. The movie had Surendra, Naseem Bano, Prem Adeeb, Cuckoo, Bhudo Advani, Nawab, Zeb Qureshi, Reehan, Pratima Devi, Murad, Amir Banoo, Wasker, Abdul, Haroon, Master Ghulam Mohamed etc in it.
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Morni ne seekhaa
Posted on: August 13, 2012
Today (13 august) happens to be the birthday of not just Vyjyanti mala but also Sridevi. On this occasion, here is a song picturised on Sridevi.
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Today (13 august) is the birthday of Vyjyanti Mala. So we in this blog, as is our practice, discuss a few songs featuring Vyjyanti Mala on this occasion.
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Sun ree sakhi more sajna bulaaye
Posted on: August 13, 2012
Today (13 august) is the birthday of Vyjyantimala, one of the most proficient classically trained dancer to grace the silver screen. She made her debut in Hindi movies in 1950 with “Bahaar” (1950) and she had a long innings in Hindi movies which lasted till around 1967 when she finally bowed out of Hindi movies.
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“Nav Durga” (1953) was a Basant Pictures Production. It was directed by Babubhai Mistry. This mythological movie had Mahipal, Usha Kiran, Dalpat, Sulochana Chatterji, Raja Sandow, Maruti, S. N. Tripathi, Amarnath etc in it.
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Chalo ab kehna maan jaao
Posted on: August 13, 2012
I have mentioned it in the past that Rafi and Geeta Dutt have sung about 155 duets together and the majority of these duets are not under O P Nayyar or S D Burman’s music direction, but under the baton of Chitragupta.
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“Anokhi Ada” (1948) is a treasure of great songs. Like most music lovers, I was only aware of the just the few songs from this movie that were the most popular ones. But subsuquently, I have been discovering the remaining songs of this movie, mainly because the lyrics of the remaining songs from “Anokhi Ada” (1948) have been sent to me by Atif M. Yesterday I discussed an untypical composition from this movie which was a soft song, which sounded like a western music based composition. And here is a lovely folk music based composition from “Anokhi Ada” (1948) which has bowled me over at the very first listening.
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Roothh na jaana tumse kahoon to
Posted on: August 12, 2012
“1942 A Love Story” (1993) was a movie which was produced by Vidu Vinod Chopra and directed by Vidu Vinod Chopra. The movie, despite its publicity, was no great shakes.
But the music of this movie was quite a revelation. This movie was released a few months after the death of R D Burman. When music lovers heard the music of this movie, they sat up and took notice. Some reviwers even went as far as to state that this was the music ever composed by R D Burman ! I am not one to indulge in such odious comparisons, but I was one of those music lovers who found the music of the movie quite divine. When I went on to watch the movie, I found the movie quite a let down. The movie was supposed to be a period movie on 1942 but all the characters dressed, looked and behaved like people of 1990s.
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“Amir Gharib” (1974) was an Em Kay Films private Ltd production. It was produced and directed by Mohan Kumar. The movie had Dev Anand, Hema Malini, Tanuja, Nazima, Premnath, Helen, Ranjeet, Sujeet Kumar, Raj Mehra, Sulochana Latkar, Chaman Puri, Birbal, Master Ravi, Jr.Mehmood, Bunty, Mohan Choti, Mumtaz Begum, Ram mohan, Dulari, Krishnakant, V.Gopal, Tuntun, Keshav Rana, Kamal Deep, Jerry, Rajan Kapoor, Moolchand, Ram Avtaar, Sajan, Kuljeet, Sopariwala etc in it.
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