Archive for the ‘Rafi solo’ Category
In India, the three unifying things for Indians are Indian Railways, Bollywood movies and Cricket. We have had several rail related songs in Bollywood movies, but it is a great surprise that cricket related songs are conspicuous by their absence, even though cricket is as big a craze among Indians as movies, and it has become more so in the last few decades.
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When it comes to picturising melancholic songs, Guru Dutt was just the person. For someone who started out his career playing happy roles, his transformation into a melancholic person, in reel as well as real life, must make for an interesting case study from a psychiatric point of view.
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This movie “Haseenon ke Devtaa” (1971) sank without a trace and few people now remember this movie. This movie had Sanjay Khan and Rekha in lead roles.
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O Laxmi O Sarsu
Posted on: August 26, 2009
I was neither aware of this movie nor this song. The movie is “Kahin Aur Chal” (1969).
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Here is a song from “Mohabbat Isko Kahte Hain” (1965). This song is sung by Rafi. Majrooh Sultanpuri wrote this song and Khayyam composed the music.
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Dil ka dard niraalaa
Posted on: August 24, 2009
“Kaise Kahoon” (1964) was a movie starring Vishwajeet and Nanda. I had not heard about this movie in the past. It is only now that I have been discovering that this movie had some nice songs in it.
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“Love Marriage” (1959) was a movie that had some lovely songs. I have been posting the songs from this movie and I have enjoyed listening to these songs.
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Saaz e dil pe koyi geet gaa
Posted on: August 23, 2009
Vishwajeet tended to get backed by fantastic music (and singing) of Hemant Kumar in his movies. In some of his other movies, he had other music directors and then Rafi would do playback singing for Vishwajeet.
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After quite a while, here is one more Rafi-Shammi Kapoor song. This song in fact features not only the Hero and the heroine, but the entire gang of their friends ( read sidekicks ).
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Bijli giri kahaan se
Posted on: August 20, 2009
Among lesser known music directors, S Mohinder will always occupy a pride of place. He did not get too many opportunities to show his ability, but he made the most of whatever little opportunities he got as a music director.
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