Archive for the ‘Rafi songs’ Category
Pyaar wo shai hai ae mere yaaron
Posted on: March 22, 2013
This article is written by nahm, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Here comes a party song, performed by Mehmood in the film “Neela Aakash”” (1965). All songs of this movie are marvellous, including the one removed/unused from the film. I will come to that song in the next post.
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“Gumnaam” (1965) was a Prithvi Pictures production. It was produced by N N Sippy and directed by Raja Nawathe. The movie had Manoj Kumar, Nanda, Pran, Dhumal, Mehmood, Helen, Madan Puri, Tarun Bose, Manmohan, Naina, Laxmi Chhaaya, Hiralal etc in it.
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This article is written by nahm, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
After a long time I found a Lata-Rafi duet. And it is composed by S D Burman and written by Majrooh Sultanpuri.
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Chaahe koi mujhe bhoot kahe
Posted on: March 20, 2013
This article is written by Arunkumar Deshmukh, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
During the early phase of Talkie films, all other regional Film producers, particularly the Southern ones looked up to Hindi films to provide them with ‘ Inspiration ‘.
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Khel re khilaune
Posted on: March 20, 2013
“Dashavatar”(1951) was a J K Films Production. It was directed by Jayant Desai. The movie had Nirupa Roy, Trilok Kapoor, Niranjan Sharma, Tabassum etc in it.
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Jis raat ke khwaab aaye
Posted on: March 19, 2013
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular cotributor to this blog.
The name of Habba Khatoon, the Kashmiri poetess may not be familiar to many people. This name became familiar to me only sometime in 1987 when Muzzafar Ali ( of Umrao Jaan fame) announced his plan to make a film on the life of Habba Khatoon. Dimple Kapadia was taken for the title role with Vinod Khanna in the role of the first husband of Habba Khatoon. The title of the film was changed to ‘Zooni’, Habba Khatoon’s maiden name. The lyrics were to be written by Shahryar and Khayyam was to give the music direction. Muzzafar Ali believed that Zooni’s life was the powerful vehicle to project the real Kashmir. After nearly 20 months of shooting in Kashmir, the film was shelved in 1989 probably due to the rise of militancy in the Kashmir valley. I got my hand on a small video clip of the film on YT uploaded by Basheer Ali who was the Director of Photography for the film. From the content of the clip which also has a part of the song ‘rukh-e-dildaar deedam daras ko aaye preetam’ picturised on Dimple Kapadia, it appears that it was made as a part of marketing the film for international audience. The video clip is here.
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Ho diljaaniyaan
Posted on: March 19, 2013
“Naach Uthhe Sansaar” (1976) was directed by Yakub Hasan Rizvi. The movie had Shashi Kapoor, Hema Malini, Chandrima Bhaduri, Simi Garewal, Leela Mishra, Rajan Haksar, Aruna Irani, Roopesh Kumar, Rajendranath, Bhushan Tiwari, Ramayan Tiwari etc in it.
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Suno suno kanyaaon ka vernan
Posted on: March 18, 2013
This article is written by Arunkumar Deshmukh, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Out of all the Kapoors, my favourite is SHASHI KAPOOR. The reasons for this are many.
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Ek jaanib shamm e mehfil
Posted on: March 17, 2013
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This article is written by Pamir Harvey, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
This song from Abhilasha (1968) is not so well known like the other two featured songs on the blog here. It is a Rafi-Manna Dey duet. Roshan used this combination of voices brilliantly in his qawaalis. This song, I think is the first time that Pancham uses this pair of voices.
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This article is written by nahm, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Here is a fantastic duet by Mohammad Rafi and Asha Bhonsle, from the film “Yeh raat phir na aayegi”(1966). Music Director is O P Nayyar, and this song is written by S H Bihari. Five songs are already posted, but a few famous songs are still on the way.
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