Archive for the ‘Rafi solo’ Category
Main pyaar kaa deewaanaa
Posted on: April 3, 2010
“Aayi Milan Ki Bela” (1964) is a movie that to my mind was carried on the back of its lilting music. I do not think that people would have gone to watch this movie for Rajendra Kumar’s histrionics, if the movie did not have its awesome music.
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Zulf ke phande phans gayi jaan
Posted on: April 1, 2010
It may sound strange but it is true. Some of the finest music of O P Nayyar has been composed for movies where Johny Walker was the hero. I have posted a few such songs already and I keep stumbling upon more such songs regularly.
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Jaa re jaa meraa dil na jalaa
Posted on: March 26, 2010
I have recently discovered a movie called “Jawaani Ki Hawaa” (1959). This by now forgotten movie had music by Ravi.
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I have posted as many as six songs from “Haqeeqat” (1964) and I thought that I had covered all the songs. But it turns out that I had missed out on posting another very fine song from this movie.
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When it comes to rare to find songs, this song must take the cake.
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Ye duniya nahin jaagir kisi ki
Posted on: March 8, 2010
It has been a while since I posted a Madan Mohan composition. I have posted nearly one hundred Madan Mohan songs in this blog and there are still hundreds of great Madan Mohan songs that are yet to be posted.
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Dil le gayi le gayi le gayi
Posted on: March 6, 2010
Just when I thought that I had run out of all the Shammi Kapoor songs, here comes this song about whose existence I was totally unaware !
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When one watches a song picturised on Shammi Kapoor, one half expects the song to be sung by Rafi and the music to be composed by Shankar Jaikishan. And that is how it has been for much of Shammi Kapoor’s career during his heydays.
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Aaye thhey huzoor bade tan ke
Posted on: March 4, 2010
I had never heard this song. In fact, I was not aware of this movie either. Now that I have heard this song, and watched the picturisation, I wonder where this song was lying hidden all these days. What an absolute gem of a song !
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