Archive for the ‘Rafi solo’ Category
Zindagi hai kyaa sun meri jaan
Posted on: February 6, 2011
Lyrics of this song are courtesy Sudhir who is a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie songs and a regular contributor of lyrics to this blog
Most music lovers are aware of better known songs from movies and they are oblivious of the other songs from those movies. I have fond that these lesser known/forgotten songs can sometimes be real gems/ special songs.
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Ye kaisi deewaar hai duniyaa
Posted on: February 3, 2011
Here is a mourning song from “Batwaaraa” (1961). No one had died. It is the age old relations that have are getting severed though. The two brothers, who lived under the same roof, now want to partition the home as they cannot see eye to eye with each other. So a wall is being erected right in front of the courtyard to partition the house into two.
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Bahaaron ki baaraat aa gayi
Posted on: February 1, 2011
Though I have seen “Yakeen” (1969) in a movie hall, I do not remember most of its details except a couple of songs that I have already discussed in this blog. I in fact do not even remember the other songs from this movie.
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Ajab tori duniyaa ho more Rama
Posted on: January 29, 2011
“Do Beegha Zameen” (1953) was one of the first Hindi movies to win international acclaim (At Cannes Film festival), in addition to sweeping the awards at the inaugural Filmfare awards.
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Johny Walker was perhaps the first non Hero who began to have songs picturised on him on a regular basis. Many of these songs became very popular.
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During the golden era of Hindi movie music (circa 1950-1980), things were quite simple and rudimentary in most fields. Hindi movie songs tended to become popular only if the movie did better, and the movies did better only if they followed certain set formulaes. Movies that tended to deviate from the standard formulae tended to fail and as a result, the songs of such movies too would suffer.
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For most music lovers,”Bheegi Raat” (1965) is synonymous with its iconic song viz. Dil jo na kah saka. Of course, no Hindi movie worth its salt had only one song in it. This movie too had more songs in it, it is just that the other songs from this movie got overshadowed by the above mentioned song.
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“Mehboob Ki Mehandi” (1971) is a movie starring Rajesh Khanna and Leena Chandawarkar. This Muslim social movie had some wonderful songs in it, which remain popular to this day.
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“Badaa Aadmi” (1961) is a by now forgotten movie. It was a B grade movie with lesser known actors like Sheikh Mukhtaar, Vijaya Chaudhary etc in it.
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“Mirza Ghalib” (1954) was a movie based on the like of Great Urdu Poet Mirza Ghalib (1797-1869) who lived before the age of movies,but it is curious to note that he is in fact the lyricist of the songs of this movie that was produced some one century after his era.
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