Archive for the ‘Rafi solo’ Category
I have been posting songs of “Baiju Baawraa” (1952) these days. Every song that I post is a masterclass, and never fails to enthrall, even if I may have heard the song many times in the past.
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Raahi mil gaye raahon mein
Posted on: September 15, 2009
“Dil Deke Dekho” (1959) was one of the earlier Shammi Kapoor movies where Shammi Kapoor was seen with his tradmark mannerisms.
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The present generation of people are aware that India became an independent country in 1947 and a democracy in 1950, but it is difficult for them to imagine the changes, trannsformations, upheavals and paradigm shifts that the general poplulation had to suffer in the earlier years of this newly independent nation.
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Somehow, “Teen Deviyaan” (1965) has gone under represented in this blog, though this movie boasts of several fine songs. One reason why I have not posted most of them could be that I did not get to listen to the songs of this movie when I was growing up and therefore I am not much familiar with these songs.
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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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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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