Archive for the ‘Rafi songs’ Category
When I saw the lyrics of this song sent to me by nahm, I thought that she had sent this lyrics by mistake. How can this song be not yet posted ? But when I checked up, I found that not only this song, but in fact none of the songs of this movie, namely “Neela Aakash” (1965) have figured in the blog so far. So that makes this song a “How come this song is ot yet posted !” category of song.
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Today (19 january) is the date of birth of Kaifi Azmi. To many music lovers of younger generations, he may be a lesser known name, and even to me, he was a “boring” lyricist when I was growing up. Having grown up (hopefully) 🙂 I have come to appreciate Kaifi Azmi better. We have over one hundred Kaifi Azmi songs in this blog and that speaks volumes about the fact that Kaifi Azmi was one of the major contributors in making the Golden era of Hindi movie music what it was, viz a memorable era for music lovers.
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“Anjaana”(1969) was an Em Kay Productions movie. Em Kay, viz Mohan Kumar also directed the movie. Star cast of the movie included names like Rajendra Kumar, Babita, Pran, Nazima, Prem Chopra, Sunder, Nirupa Roy, Mohan Choti, Tuntun, Mehmood Junior etc.
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“Shahnaaz” (1948) is by now an obscure and forgotten movie. Little is known about this movie today.This movie was a Wahab Production movie and it was directed by S Hassan. The star cast of the movie included names like Nihar, Begum Para, Sheikh, Shanta Patel, Shyama, Gulzar, Altaf etc.
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“Pyaasa” (1957) is a movie which touched the heart strings of the movie goers. It is the story of an artist who does not get his due in his life time but rich tributes are paid to him when he is presumed dead. But when he re appears again among his admirers, people who benefitted from his “death” are discomfited.
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This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
A gem of a soft romantic duet. ‘Mere Armaan Mere Sapne’ is a somewhat better remembered film from early sixties (1963). Produced under the banner of Lalit Kala Mandir, Bombay, this film is directed by Arvind Soni. The lyrics for this film are penned by Rajendra Krishan, and the wonderful compositions are by N Dutta. The film has a good star cast that includes Pradeep Kumar, Jaishree Gadkar, Aseem Kumar, Kumari Naaz, Sumitra Devi, Pran, Asit Sen, Agha, Manmohan Krishan, Badri Prasad, Johnny Whisky, Paul Mahendra, Padma Devi, Paro Devi, Samar Chatterjee etc.
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Mujhe tumse muhabbat hai
Posted on: January 16, 2012
“Shahnaaz” (1948) is an obscure movie and little is known about this movie. In fact, there is uncertainty even about the title. I have seen the title being spelled as “Shahnawaaz” too in some site.
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“Bedaag” (1965) was produced by Anoop Sharma and directed by R Bhattacharya. The star cast of the movie included names like Manoj Kumar, Nanda, Lalita Pawar, Shashikala, Shobha Khote, Raj Mehra, Mumtaz, Kammo, Sonia Lee, Mehmood, Walter Lavarre, Gyani etc.
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A grade music in B grade movies- this has by now become a common refrain while discussing many of the songs in this blog. B grade movies had their own big name musi directors, and one of the biggest such names was undoubtedly Chitragupta.
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Aapka chehra maashaa allah
Posted on: January 12, 2012
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Janaury 12th is the birth anniversary of the great maestro Ramchandra Narhari Chitalkar, well known in Hindi film industry as C Ramchandra and also Chitalkar as a playback singer. C Ramchandra (CR) was one of the prominent music directors belonging to the golden era of Hindi films songs. If one goes by the number of songs he had composed of joyous mood, I guess, he must have been a fun loving person.
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