Archive for the ‘Rafi songs’ Category
This post is written by Raja, a fellow enthusiast of hindi movie songs and a regular contributor of write ups to this blog.
As far as I know, Sasural (1961) was a pretty big hit. Produced by Prasad Productions and directed by LV Prasad, it starred Rajendra Kumar and B Saroja Devi.
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Sun mere saajnaa re
Posted on: March 3, 2011
When I was a young kid, I was into new songs (which meant songs of 1970s) and I disliked listening to old songs. I wondered why the older singers could not sing songs like the newer songs, and why the music of these two songs were not jazzy like the new songs.
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Agar teri jalwaa numaayee na hoti
Posted on: March 2, 2011
This post is written by Raja, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor of write ups to this blog.
In the late 1940s/early 1950s, South Indian production houses began making films in Hindi. AVM Productions became very well-known with their runaway hit, Bahar in 1951. This was based on a superhit Tamil film and was the movie that launched Vyjanthimala in Hindi movies.
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“Balam” (1949) is a movie starring Wasti,Suraiyya,Jayant,Masud,Nigar Sultana,Agha etc and several of these names do not ring any bells for most music lovers, that is how old this movie is.
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Din pyaar ke aaye re
Posted on: March 2, 2011
“Aansoo” (1953) is a forgotten movie by now. It had Shekhar and Kamini Kaushal in lead roles.
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The lyrics of this song are provided by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie songs and a regular contributor to this blog.
“Pyaar Ka Bandhan” (1963) is a movie starring Raj Kumar,Nishi,Kumari Naaz, Dhumal,Johny Walker, Indira Bansal, Helen etc in it.
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Lyrics of this song have been provided by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog
It may be unimaginable today for the present generation, but when India became independent over six decades ago, the country was industrially undeveloped and there was hardly any infrastructure to speak of. Indian leadership of that time decided that India needed to adopt the Soviet Union model of planned economy for nation building. Accordingly, there used to be five year plans those days and based on the decisions taken for these five year plans, various infrastructure projects were undertaken.
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Lag gayin ankhiyaan tumse mori
Posted on: February 19, 2011
“Jeewan Jyoti” (1953) is a movie that had Shammi Kapoor, Chand Usmani, Shashikala etc in it. Personally I am not much aware of this movie. In fact, I am not much aware of its songs too. Or so I thought. Just a few hours ago, I stumbled upon this song, which I had heard many a times without being aware of its details. This time I realised that this song was from “Jeewan Jyoti” (1953). In fact, I thought that this song, which is fairly well known, was already in this blog. But I was wrong in my assumption, of course.
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This post is written by Raja, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie songs and a regular contributor of writeups to this blog
For a Bollywood old-song buff like me, one of the biggest pleasures of checking out youtube is to discover new “old” songs. Over the years I have not just listened to hundreds of songs that I already knew but have discovered several new “old” songs that have absolutely delighted me. The “suggestions” feature on youtube ensures that I spend several unintended hours listening to songs.
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Chhedo dhun matwaalon ki
Posted on: February 16, 2011
This post is written by Raja, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie songs and a regular contributor of writeups to this blog
I have talked before about the thrill of locating some of the less-known songs of your childhood days on the internet. You probably know just the first couple of lines, you may not even know any details more than this but you last heard the song in your childhood.
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