Archive for the ‘Rafi songs’ Category
O jiyaa o jiyaa kuchh bol do
Posted on: June 29, 2011
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This evergreen song from “Jab Pyaar Kisi Se Hota Hai”(1961) wears multiple hats. The song is a multiple version song in the sense that this song is sung independently by two singer, viz Rafi in one version and Lata in another version. The song can be called the title song as well as theme song. The male version of the song is rail song as well.
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These are are days of consumerism where people have mind boggling variety of materials to choose from. It is difficult to imagine today that Indian shops till 1970s wore spartan looks and they hardly had anything to offer. People got “phoren” goods from abroad and flaunted them proudly. And smuggling (bringing items without paying the exorbitant taxes) was a flourishing business.
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I have recently come across a song from a movie called “Daanaa Paani” (1953). Hardly any information is available about this movie and the brief information available about this movie is faithfully reproduced in all sites. The information being, this movie had Bharat Bhushan, Meena Kumari and Shashi Kapoor in it. When one does maths, Shashi Kapoor must be all of 14 years old at the time this movie was released. So it is not as if he was carrying the movie on his shoulders.
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“Naqli Nawaab” (1962) is a movie starring Manoj Kumar,Shakila,Ashok Kumar etc.
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Tere kooche mein tera deewaanaa
Posted on: June 25, 2011
Most songs discussed in this blog are movie songs which were included in the movie when that movie was released. But there are some cases in which songs, even though they were recorded as part of the movie ended up getting excluded from the movie for one reason or the other. In some cases, the movie makers decided to exclude the song, in some cases, censors ordered the exclusion of the song, and in one case, this was done one week after the movie was released !
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Zulfon ko hataa le chehre se
Posted on: June 25, 2011
I just realised two facts. One fact is that the hair of leading ladies in Hindi movies play an important part in Hindi movies, especially in songs. when the Hero needs to sing a song in praise of her, what are the things about her that he can mention? He will sing about her face- likening it to Chaand(Moon), he will sing about her eyes, likening them to deep lakes. Another important body part that find much mention in the paens that hero sings for the lady are her hairs, which are called “zulf” in Hindi song parlance and they are often likened to Ghata (viz black rain bearing clouds). Heroine being compared to moon,lakes, cloud ! Hindi movie lyricists must have paid enough attention in their geography classes, it would seem to me, at least when these geographical topics were being discussed.
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Maine chaand dekhaa hai
Posted on: June 23, 2011
Most movies that are released come to the notice of movie going public, whether or not they actually go to the movie halls to watch these movies.
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The title “Dushman” seems to be quite a popular title of Hindi movie makers. I am aware of at least three movies of this name, starring K L Saigal, Dev Anand and Rajesh Khanna. In addition, other movies of this title may have been produced later too.
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Dil le ke chhupne waale
Posted on: June 23, 2011
During late 1940s and early 1950s, Rehman used to act as hero in Hindi movies. Unfortunately most such movies with him as the hero seem to have ended up as obscure movies, and he finally had to end up making his living as character artist in subsequent years.
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“Ram Rajya” (1967) is a movie that failed to do well at the box office because mainstream audiences of those days (and even today) by and large kept away from religious movies.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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