Archive for the ‘Rafi songs’ Category
Hip Hip Hurray
Posted on: February 5, 2013
“College Girl”(1960) was a Rawal Films Production. It was produced by B L Rawal and directed by T Prakash Rao. The movie had Shammi Kapoor, Vyjayanthimala, Om Prakash, Tabassum, Raj Mehra, Purnima, Nana Palsikar, Randhir, Achla Sachdev, Leela Misra, Mohan Choti etc in it.
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Ye duniya rail niraali
Posted on: February 5, 2013
“Paayal”(1957) was a Madras Talkies production. It was directed by Joseph Taliath and the movie had Sunil Dutt, Padmini, Ragini, Bipin Gupta, Achala Sachdev, David Abraham, Agha, Kumari Naaz, Minoo Mumtaz etc in it.
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Tera kaanton se pyaar
Posted on: February 4, 2013
This article is written by nahm, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
This is one more duet by Mohammed Rafi and Geeta Dutt from the film ‘Chunariya’ (1948). Music Director is Hansraj Behl and lyricist is Mulkraj Bhakri. Four songs of this film are already posted in the blog and none of them are having video links. The songs of this film are specially poignant with these two solos by Lata and Rafi, viz. Dil e nashaad ko jeene ki hasrat ho gayee tumse and Sab kuchh lutaayaa hamne aakar teri gali mein. The song I am discussing also just has an audio link. But from the tone of the song I can guess that it is a ‘ beggar’s song ‘. The words are not really begging but the composition is such that it can not fit any other situation.
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“College Girl” (1960) was a Rawal Films Production movie. It was produced by B L Rawal and directed by T Prakash Rao. The movie had Shammi Kapoor, Vyjyanti Mala, Om Prakash, Tabassum etc in it.
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“Chilman” (1949) was an O S S Productions movie. It was directed by Changezi. The movie had Rehana, Shareef, Pritma, Shanti Mullick, Hamid, Anwari etc in it.
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This article is written by Arunkumar Deshmukh, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movies and a regular contributor to this blog.
C Ramchandra started his career as an independent Music Director with a Tamil film- ” Jayakodi” ( Flag of Victory ).
Very strange indeed ! A Marathi composer, who spent his entire life in Hindi cinema Industry, started with a Tamil film !!
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Kehke bhi na aaye tum
Posted on: February 2, 2013
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
I was a bit surprised to note that Mohammed Rafi had to struggle for nearly 5 years to establish him as one of the leading male playback singers in Hindi film industry. It is said that he recorded his first song for a Punjabi film as early as 1942. It took him another 2 years to get his first song in a Hindi film ‘Pahele Aap’ (1944), a duet with Shyam thus beginning his long lasting collaboration with Naushad. It took another year for him to get an opportunity to sing his first solo song ‘ae dil-e-nakaam tamanna’ in ‘Hamara Sansaar’ (1945) followed by ‘teraa khilonaa toota baalak’ in ‘Anmol Ghadi’ (1946), the latter one under the baton of Naushad.
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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 another solo of Rafi Sahab from the film “Laila Majnu” (1976). This is a ghazal picturized as a doli song with Majnu following Laila’s doli in the desert and singing this song , imploring Laila to take with her, the prayers of the one who has been left desolate in her love. This is among the last few compositions of Madan Mohan. Lyricist is Saahir Ludhianvi. Master of ghazals as Madan Mohan is known as, this is a brilliant creation of all three legends. A teetotaler simpleton, a cynical intellectual and a broken genuis alcoholic. A strange combination if there were any.
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“Khidki”(1948) was an Arvind and Anand Production movie. It was produced and directed by P L Santoshi. The movie had Ram Singh, Rehana, Kalpana, Jawahar Kaul, V. H. Desai, Radha Krishnan, Leela Misra, Mumtaz Ali, Tiwari etc in it.
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