Archive for the ‘Rafi solo’ Category
Gaal gulaabi kiske hain
Posted on: November 8, 2010
“Love in Shimla” (1960) was the debut movie of Joy Mukherji and Sadhana. And one must say that the two of them made an impressive debut.
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“Deepawali” also called “Deewaali” means festival of lights in Hindi. There is another similar sounding unrelated word in Hindi called “deewaala” which means bankruptcy, which is nearly an antonym of deewaali. This word play of deewaali and deewaala is often used in common conversation by people.
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Na jaa kahin ab na jaa
Posted on: November 3, 2010
Here is a song from “Mere Hamdam Mere Dost” (1968). From the lyrics, this song could well be regarded as the title song cum theme song of the movie.
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There are songs that are best enjoyed as part of the movie, and then there are songs that are best enjoyed in isolation. Here is a song that falls in the later category, viz this song is best enjoyed as a stand alone song. This song is from a movie called “Paalki” (1967) and this story was as retrograde and illogical as any that Hindi movies can subject their followers to.
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This blog is over two years old now. In these two years, we have passed many milestones. By now, this blog has over 3100 songs. Recently the blog clocked one million visits, which is not bad for a non professional blog like this.
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I have heard this song many a times, but I was not aware of any details about this song except the obvious one that the song is sung by Rafi.
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Tum hamen bhool gaye
Posted on: October 29, 2010
“Balam” (1949) is by now a forgotten movie. This movie has Wasti, Suraiyya,Agha, Nigar, Masud, Jayant etc in main roles.
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Badi der bhai badi der bhai
Posted on: October 28, 2010
I have discussed six songs from “Basant Bahaar” (1956) in the past and all those were iconic songs. I thought that there were no more songs, and certainly no more iconic songs left in the movie to be discussed.
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Hindi movie songs are reputed to be sung by the hero and heroine while running around trees. But what happens when the lady has injured herself and is unable to even walk, let alone run ? Does the hero abandon her and runs around trees with some other lady ? Not if the hero is Sunil Dutt. Sunil Dutt is one hero who would take care of his ladies in their moments of need.
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