Archive for the ‘Rafi solo’ Category
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
In this post I present a qawwaali written by Sahir Saab. In the string of qawwaalis, I had some time back posted the iconic qawwaali from the film Kaala Samunder (1962), with the mukhdaa (title) “Meri Tasweer Le Kar Kyaa Karogey Tum” . There is one more qawwaali from the same film, not as well known, and is somewhat rare and obscure. But then, bless this YouTube that I am able to trace this qawwaali finally.
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“Saajan Ki Saheli” (1980) is a movie which came up in the last stage of the Golden era of Hindi movie music. Those were the days when Disco music was becoming the rage and lyrics were losing their importance in such songs. During those days, we fortunately still had the kind of music in some movies that we had grown up to love all these decades. These were off beat movies, smaller budget movies, family values movies- in brief “non mainstream movies”.
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Abhi to raat baaqi hai
Posted on: October 24, 2011
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
A soft and very sensuous piece of music from the 1969 film, Bandish. The film is produced under the banner of JJ Films, Bombay and directed by Charandas Shokh, the star cast of the film includes Shailendra, Sonia Sahni, Azra, Ulhaas, Sham Kumar, Mirza Musharraf, Kundan, Brahmchari, SK Prem, Sarita Devi, Uma Dhawan etc. The lyricist is yet another new name for this blog, Akmal Hyderabadi. The music is composed by Usha Khanna.
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Ek do teen dil gayi chheen
Posted on: October 24, 2011
Today India follows the decimal system as far as currency is concerned where 100 paise = 1 rupee. But that was not always the case. The decimal systen was adopted by India in 1957. Before that one rupee was equal to 64 paise, and one anna equalled 4 paise. Thus half a rupee was 8 anna and so on. To differentiate between the paisa of the decimal system from the paisa of earlier days, the decimal system paisa was called “Naya Paisa” (new paisa). After 1964, the prefix naya was dropped, but in day to day life, usage of the term “naya paisa” continued well into 1970s. In fact, the coins itself had the word “naya paisa” or “naye paise” written on them.
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This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Insaan Aur Shaitaan, a film from 1970, came in the time when Sanjeev Kumar had already moved into significant and leading roles in A grade films. Probably this films would be one of his last few commitments in the action thrillers of the B/C category where he was fighting off criminals and saving the honor of young ladies and the nation.
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This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
As I am selecting more songs to post for the composer Usha Khanna, I am actually faced by the dilemma on which ones to post first and which to defer. Every film that she has composed for, contains such musical gems that it is a wonder. Being relegated to the B/C grade films most of the time, Usha Khanna has still done a yeoman’s service to the Hindi film music, producing one great melody after another. Coming across the names of the films for which she has composed music, the first reaction is ‘haanh?, what was that name again’, that is the level of obscurity which pervades her creations.
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This article is written by Raja, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog
I am not one who believes in star positions in the galaxy determining happenings on earth but maybe some things were ordained.
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Jaane wo kaun hain
Posted on: October 20, 2011
“Bheegi Raat”(1965) is a Maya movies production, which was directed by Kalidas. the movie had Meena Kumari, Pradeep Kumar, Shashikala, Rajendranath, Ulhas, Raj Mehra, Ashok Kumar, Kamini Kaushal, I. S. Johar, Hari Shivdasani etc in it.
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In Hindi movie, it is only the hero and the heroine who are supposed to have tender feeling and who are supposed to fall in love. Other characers are supposed to be people without feelings who have no place for romantic songs in their lives.
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Aji aisi nazar ko kyaa kahiye
Posted on: October 19, 2011
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
The general impression of a qawwaali is that is sung by a group of singers and musicians together. Either it is one group that is presenting, with one or two lead singers, a number of other singers providing the chorus, and some members of the group are playing the musical instruments. Or it is a presentation by two groups composed as described above, who may be competing with each other, in presenting ideas about a specific theme. This latter variation is called ‘baitbaazi’ .
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