Archive for the ‘Rafi solo’ Category
Maanaa mere haseen sanam
Posted on: December 9, 2009
There was a time when I was an avid movie watcher. Those were the days when one could watch movies only at movie halls. I used to wonder whether we will even be in a position when we will be able to watch movies of our choice at home, any time of the day. My hopes were stuff of science fiction in 1970s when I thought about it, but now, three decades onwards, it has become a reality.
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There are several movies called Dillagi, but the earliest movie of this name that I am awre of is “Dillagi” (1949). This movie had Shyam,Suraiyya, Amar, Sharda, Amir Bano etc in it.
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Ab wo hamaare ho gaye
Posted on: November 27, 2009
When one talks of “Safar”, I am reminded of a 1970 movie by this name starring Rajesh Khanna. But there was another movie by this name that was released in 1946. Not much is known about this movie, at least to me, but it seems that this movie had actors called Kanu Roy, S L Puri, V H Desai, Shobha etc. Naseem Akhtar (never heard of this name) was a singer in this movie.
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Bollywood movie songs of 1940s are of considerable importance and interest, because the singing legends of later decades were taking their first tentative steps in their singing careers at that time. For instance, Rafi was just two movies old as a playback singer when 1947 began. In 1947, he sang in “Do Bhai” and “Jugnu”. The “Jugnu” song-“Yahaan badla wafaa ka bewafaayi ke siwaa kyaa hai” proved to be the first major hit of his singing career.
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Phoolon ki tarah wo hansti thi
Posted on: November 22, 2009
People of my generation were aware of a Hindi movie called “College Girl” (1978) which had a hit Kishore Kumar song, viz. Pyaar maanga hai tumhi se na inkaar karo. Old generation music lovers though were more aware of another movie of the same name that was released in 1960. This movie, viz. “College Girl” (1960) had several nice songs sung by Rafi in it.
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“Ek Ke Baad Ek” (1960) is a lesser known movie starring Dev Anand and Sharada.
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I thought that I had posted this song already. Then I realised that I had not posted this song. Though I had got the lyrics of this song ready a while back, I do not know why I had not yet posted it.
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I can not recall this movie called “Suraj Aur Chandaa” (1973) which was released during by early teen years. But when I stumbled upon the songs of this movie recently, I realised that I had listened to these songs those days. In fact, a few of these songs were extremely popular and I enjoyed listening to them.
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