Archive for the ‘Rafi songs’ Category
Lo ek kali muskaayi
Posted on: March 26, 2012
“Ek Kali Muskaayi” (1968) was a Panch Deep Chitra Production. It was directed by Vasant Joglekar. The movie had Joy Mukherjee, Meera Joglekar, Ashok Kumar, Mehmood, Om Prakash, Nirupa Roy, Lalita Pawar etc in it.
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Jab tak duniya rahi rahegi
Posted on: March 26, 2012
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
I have not seen the film YE DIL KISKO DOON (1963) but I have watched all the available video clips of the songs umpteen times . I enjoyed these songs some of which are audio-visual treats. The film was produced under the banner of Bindu Kala Mandir and directed by Kanak Mishra who was also the story and screen play writer. Star cast included Shashi Kapoor, Ragini, Agha,Jayshree Gadkar, Jeevan, Sajjan, Asit Sen etc. All songs of the film were written by Qamar Jalalabadi and set to music by Iqbal Qureshi. The film’s name may have been inspired by a Helen song ‘itni badi mehefil aur ek dil kisko doon’ from the film ‘Dil Apna Aur Preet Paraayi” (1960), but could not inspire thea udience to come to the theatres and watch the film. The film failed at the box office and with this, Shashi Kapoor’s struggling days to establish him as a lead actor were prolonged. It was about 2 years later that he could established himself as a lead actor with the box office success of the film ‘Jab Jab Phool Khile’ (1965). For Iqbal Qureshi, the film’s music director, once again the luck was not in his favour. His efforts in churning out great songs were wasted in a film that has now been almost forgotten.
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Daiyya re daiyya laaj mohe laage
Posted on: March 25, 2012
This article is written by Raja, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
In a recent post (“koi aaya lachak uthi kaaya”), I had talked about seeing the film Dastaan (1972) on a flight.
As it turned out, that was not the only film I saw on that flight. It was a long flight so I managed to see another film that I’d been wanting to see for a long time – Leader (1964), starring Dilip Kumar and Vyjanthimala.
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Jaa jaa re jaa deewaane jaa
Posted on: March 25, 2012
“Grihasthi” (1963) was a Gemini preoduction. It was directed by Kishore Sahu. Starcast of the movie had Ashok Kumar, Manoj Kumar, Rajshree, Nirupa Roy, Lalita Pawar, Indrani Mukherjee, Mehmood, Sudesh Kumar, Shubha Khote, Iftekhar, Bipin Gupta, Kanhaiyalal, Manmohan Krishna, Bharati Malwankar, Achala Sachdev, Gajanan Jagirdar etc in it.
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Chal diye banda nawaaz
Posted on: March 24, 2012
I have discussed as many as six songs from “Mr and Mrs 55” (1955) and I was under the impression that all songs of the movie had been covered. But I was wrong of course. There are still at least a couple of songs from this movie yet to be discussed.
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“Ghoonghat” (1960) was a Gemini Pictures Presentation. It was directed by Ramanand Sagar. Starcast of the movie included Pradeep Kumar, Asha Parekh, Bharat Bhushan, Beena Roy, Agha, Rehman, Helen, Kanhaiya Lal, Rajendra Nath, Pratima Devi, Leela Chitnis etc.
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Regulars of this blog may be wondering why I have discussed only one post today and then nothing ! The reason is, today my wife has all the time to supervise over me and sitting at the computer is proving out to be difficult for me. I somehow managed to post one writeup today when she was not looking. Now it is afternoon and she has gone out for her favourite pastime, viz shopping. I refuse to have anything to do with shopping so I have dropped her (and the daughter) to a shopping complex and come back. Assuming that they will be there for three hours, I need to make the most of these three hours to make up for lost time. 🙂
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Hain abhi aur ae dil tere imtihaan
Posted on: March 23, 2012
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie songs and a regular contributor to this blog.
Today is 23rd March, a day that is remembered as the day of martyrdom of the three young and brave sons of this earth, Bhagat Singh, Sukh Dev and Raj Guru. In 1931, the supreme sacrifice that these young men in their twenties chose to make for the cause of our nation, became an inspiration for the subsequent generations – a ideal that still arouses the patriotic fervor.
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Yahaan main ajnabi hoon
Posted on: March 22, 2012
Here is a song that belongs to the category of “how come this song was not posted earlier”. My excuse remains the same standard one-I thought that this song was already discussed.
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“Raftaar” (1975) was a movie that was not quite A grade, nor it was an entirely B grade movie. In 1970s, such movies, which were neither here nor there tended to have Vinod Mehra and Mausami Chatterji in them as the lead pair. Put another way, they were poor producer’s Dharmendra-Hema Malini.
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