Archive for the ‘Rafi songs’ Category
Chaahe paas ho chahe door ho
Posted on: June 21, 2009
It is a very well known song from an obscure movie called “Samrat Chandragupta” (1958). Considering that this movie was a historical/ mythological fare, it must have been a B grade movie. Kalyanji was the music director of this movie. This must have been his debut movie as a music director. Later he roped in his younger brother Anandji to form their music director partnership of Kalyanji Anandji in subsequent movies.
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This song is one of those songs that I heard, liked and then forgot- all this while remaining oblivious about details like its movie etc.
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Jitni haseen ho tum
Posted on: June 20, 2009
Rafi was not only gifted with a divine voice, he was also a very humble and considerate individual. He would help out struggling music directors and would sing for them virtually for nothing. And he would give his best to these songs. There are countless Rafi songs sung for anonymous music directors which were picturised on forgotten/ forgettable actors. Quite a few of these songs are very nice and hummable songs.
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Gar tum bhula naa doge
Posted on: June 18, 2009
“Yakeen” (1969) is not remembered much today, but as was the case with almost every mainstream movie of those days, this movie had some nice music in it.
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Haay tabassum tera
Posted on: June 17, 2009
I was not aware of this movie called “Nishaan” (1965) . Now I have come to know that it was Sanjeev Kumar’s first movie as hero.
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“Baiju Baawraa” (1952) is full of songs that have gone on to become timeless classics. And I had not posted even one song from this movie till yesterday !
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I am always on the lookout for songs composed by Ganesh. so far I have posted 10 of his songs, and all of them are superb songs.
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Bahut shukriya badi meharbaani
Posted on: June 16, 2009
There was Shammi Kapoor and then there were his clones acting in movies that strived to be like Shammi Kapor movies.
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When I first heard this song, this song reminded me of the song “lag jaa gale ke phir ye haseen raat ho na ho” from “woh kaun thi”.
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