Archive for the ‘Rafi songs’ Category
Naache man mora magan
Posted on: November 11, 2008
Here is this song “naache man mora magan” from “Meri Soorat Teri Aankhen”. I have listened to this song in past, but never fully or with rapt attention. But this time, when I listened to this song as a preparation for including it in the blog, I really was made to sit up and take notice.
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This is a song from “Son of India”, which was a movie of 1962 and it had one very popular song called “Nanha munha raahi hoon main desh ka sipaahi hoon”. This movie had other popular songs as well.
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Aao tumhen main pyaar sikha doon
Posted on: November 9, 2008
I have posted a song ( “darpan ko dekha toone jab jab kiya singaar”) from “Upaasna” earlier in this blog which was picturised on Feroz Khan and Mumtaz and was sung by Mukesh. Here is another song from the same movie.
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Rafi has sung hundreds of absolutely iconic songs. It is difficult to keep track of all of them. I am posting them in this blog one by one. Hopefully I will have all such songs in this blog in future. And I am sure that it is going to be a sizeable number running into hundreds, if not more.
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There are songs that I heard three decades ago, liked them and then forgot all about them. I have been re-discovering quite a few such songs now a days, as I keep mentioning in my posts.
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Here is another superb Rafi song. This song is from a 1966 movie called “Gaban”. Though it is a very well known song, but for some reason its video is not available, and the few clips available show school / college albums with this song playing in the background. Here is this song without such irritants and with the photo of Rafi instead.
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Door rahkar na karo baat
Posted on: November 3, 2008
The movie is called “Amaanat” and this was a movie starring Manoj Kumar and Sadhana. The voice of Rafi, singing for Manoj Kumar sounds so divine. The music is by Ravi and Sahir has written the lyrics.
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“Do Raaste” was one of the earlier hits of Rajesh Khanna. This movie, like most hits of Rajesh Khanna, had many hit songs. In fact, I am coming round to the view that many movies of those days became hits thanks to their music and the credit went to the Hero, often undeservedly. There are people who think that Rajendra Kumar movies were hits thanks to the music of his movies, and not because of his tragic roles.
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It was an out and out timepass song. But it was so good that it became an evergreen song, and an immortal song as well. So if one ever wants to listen to an evergreen timepass song, look no further than this song.
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