Archive for the ‘Rafi songs’ Category
Honth hain tere do laal heere
Posted on: April 23, 2009
O P Nayyar was one music director who reached the top without using Lata’s voice. He groomed Asha Bhonsle and he was responsible for her singing style.
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Mera man tera pyaasaa
Posted on: April 23, 2009
I have posted one song from “Gambler”(1970) in the past. Somhow I keep confusing among the songs of “Gambler”, “Guide”, “Prem Pujari” etc. All these movies had Dev Anand and Waheeda Rahman in them, if I am not mistaken, and all these movies had music by S D Burman.
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Dilip Kumar was known as tragedy king during the days I was growing up, but he would act in non tragedy roles too, though I was not aware of that in my younger days. And moreover, He was from the earlier generation, and I was growing up with the next generation of heroes ( Rajesh Khanna etc).
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Ik tera sundar mukhda
Posted on: April 20, 2009
I was aware of a movie called “Bhai bhai” released in 1940s, but I never knew that a movie of the same name was made in 1970 too. This 1970 movie must have done really poorly at the box office to be so unknown.
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In 1950s and 1960s, most leading actors stuck to the some particualar playback singers, whose voices, they thought suited them. Thus we had Mukesh singing for Raj Kapoor, Rafi singing for Shammi Kapoor etc.
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One two three four
Posted on: April 20, 2009
Though most Bollywood songs in 1950s were based on desi music ( classical and folk music), western music were also being introduced those days. C Ramchandra was one of the main pioneers who introduced western music in Bollywood. Another such pioneer was N Dutta.
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Do ghadi wo jo paas aa baithe
Posted on: April 19, 2009
In 1950s, there used to be movies named after important landmarks viz “Laal Quila’,”Chandni Chowk”etc. In this series, there was one movie called “Gateway of India” (1957).
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Aap naaraaz Khuda khair kare
Posted on: April 19, 2009
I keep confusing among movies with names like “Pyaar Muhabbat” “Jawaan Muhabbat” “Pyaar Deewaana” etc. With great difficulty, I remind myself that one had Dev Anand, and another had Shammi Kapoor, and yet another had Kishore Kumar. Now which movie had which actor is something I cannot recall with any certainty.
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Jhoomta saawan dekho aaya
Posted on: April 19, 2009
While looking for forgotten gems, look what I have discovered. This Rafi song is from a forgotten movie called “Do Khilaadi” (1976). Gauhar Kanupri is the lyricist and Usha Khanna has composed the music.
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Meri gaadi udan khatola
Posted on: April 19, 2009
I had never heard about the songs of this movie called “Aurat” (1967), but now that I have heard a couple of songs from this movie, I cannot help but post them in this blog.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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