Archive for the ‘Rafi songs’ Category
Teri dhoom har kahin
Posted on: June 12, 2009
I am aware of a few songs from “Kaala Bazaar” (1960) but this song is “new” even for me. This song “teri dhoom har kahin” is a lighthearted song that was not meant to become a timeless song, I am sure. But it is a nice song to listen to nevertheless.
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I am a big fan of Ganesh, the forgotten music director of 1960s and 1970s. He was the younger brother of Pyarelal (of Laxmikant Pyarelal duo).
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Le de sainya odhni Panjaabi
Posted on: June 11, 2009
The farmaish for this song was a long pending farmaish from October 2008, and I was unable to comply with it because the video of this song was not available all these days. The fact that I had myself never herad this song meant that I too was quite eager to listen to this song.
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ai ai aa karoon main kya suku suku
Posted on: June 11, 2009
There are many people like me who are big fans of Helen as well as Shammi Kapoor. And both these much loved legends share the same birthday too !
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Kahin ek maasoom naazuk si ladki
Posted on: June 10, 2009
This song is just the kind of song that I love to post in this blog, viz it is a nice song from an obscure movie and this song deserves to be better known among music fans.
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I was not aware that Madan Mohan had ever worked in a movie starring Shashi Kapoor. Now I realise that “Neend Hamaari Khwaab Tumhaare” (1966) was indeed one such movie.
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Toone meraa yaar naa milaayaa
Posted on: June 9, 2009
It is interesting to realise that Shammi Kapoor was around since early 1950s, and he in fact acted opposite a top actress like Suraiyya, no less. This was in a movie called “Shama Parwaana” (1954).
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“Tajmahal” (1963) is one movie that is one of the biggest musical blockbusters of all time. Almost every song from this movie went on to become a timeless classic. The songs of this movie became hugely popular with masses and classes both.
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Madan Mohan is often recalled for composing many superb songs that were sung by Lata. Quite a few of these Lata songs have gone on to become timeless classics.
Madan Mohan has composed many superb songs with other singers as well.
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In Indian thinking, pursuit of money was considered bad and people who had too much money were considered evil. In fact, that stereotyping can be seen very much in older Bollywood movies, where the grocer aka lala ( often played by Kanhaiyalal, Jeewan etc) is always shown as an evil character.
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