Archive for the ‘Rafi songs’ Category
This song is one that I thought I had already discussed in the blog. The first time I became aware of O P Nayyar was in mid 1970s, when I read about him in a Hindi magazine (Dharmyug,perhaps, where it was mentioned that he made a successful career for himself without using Lata Mangewshkar’s voice even once). This got by curiosity roused. I found out that “Naya Daur” (1957) was a breakthrough movie for him as well as for many others associated with the movie. Ao I became aware of all the songs of this movie. One can see the lyrics of several songs from this movie noted down in a a diary where I used to note down the lyrics of songs that I liked those days. One can say that my diary showed which songs I liked in 1970s. And I liked the songs of “Naya Daur” (1957).
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What came first ? Chicken or the egg ? This is perhaps one of the longest standing questions of all time. The question has not yet been resolved to this date. Naturally, of course.
Here is a fun song which begins with this line and then deals with some other equally and even more fun lines.
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Koi mujhse poochhe ke tum
Posted on: March 3, 2012
Today (3rd March) is the 86th birhday of Ravi. On this occasion, we in this blog wish him a very happy birthday and wish him a long and healthy life.
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Khush rahe tu sada ye duaa hai meri
Posted on: March 2, 2012
In this blog, there are songs that belong to the category of “Why was this song not discussed earlier” category. Then there are cases of movies where the movie itself was/is not represented in the blog. “Aradhana” (1969) was one movie that was not represented for a long time. Same was the case with “Khilona”(1970).
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Chal chal re naujawaan
Posted on: March 2, 2012
When I saw the lyrics “chal chal re naujawaan” in a song from “Ek Phool Do Maali” (1969), I was surprised. People may wonder why I should be surprised if I had watched the movie. Indeed I had watched the movie, but my selective memory ensures that I only recall the details of movie watched in my younger days and details of movies that I watched much later are not retained in my memory (not enough space in the memory, perhaps 🙂 ).
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I have mentioned it in the past that Hindi movies and Hindi songs tend to deal with topics that are of interest and relevance to Indian public. Having said that, one finds that there are very few songs on some topics of everyone’s interest. For example, there are very few songs, if any, that deal with the feelings of Indians as voters. 🙂
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“Heer” (1956) was a Filmistan Production. It was directed by Hamid Butt and the starcast included Pradeep Kumar, Nutan, Ulhas, Darpan, S. L. Puri, Randhir, Krishna Kumari, Zohra Sehgal, Chaman Puri, Mubarak, Murad, Rashid Khan, Lalita Pawar, Shakuntala etc.
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Manzil ki chaah mein
Posted on: February 29, 2012
There have been several adaptations of the novel Devdas, not only in Hindi movies, but in movies of other languages too. Among the various movies of this name, “Devdas” (1935) and “Devdas”(1955) are regarded as masterpieces.
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Dhal chuki shaam e gham
Posted on: February 29, 2012
I am coming round to the view that the popular category of songs, viz “How come this soong was not posted earlier” contains not just hundreds, but thousands of songs. There are so many great songs that have not yet figured in the blog, despite this blog boasting of over 5500 songs.
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Tum saamne aakar jis dam
Posted on: February 29, 2012
“Khazaanchi” (1958) is a movie which was produced and directed by P N Arora. Starcast of the movie had names like Rajendra Kumar, Shyama, Chitra, Manorama, Helen, Rajan Haksar etc in it.
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