Archive for the ‘Rafi solo’ Category
I just realised that “aankh”( eyes) played a very important role in the songs created by Madan Mohan. Just name the movie, and chances are there will be a very well known “aankh” song in that Madan Mohan, be it “Anpadh” or “Mera Saaya” or any other movie.
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Madhosh hawa matwaali fizaa
Posted on: April 1, 2009
In Bollywood movies, title of the movies are often given in Hindi or English, and that was especially true for very old movies of say K L Saigal vintage.
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Ab wo karam karen ke sitam
Posted on: April 1, 2009
In 1950s and 1960s, there tended to be movies titled after important landmarks. For example, “Lal Quila” “Gateway of India” etc. These movies tended to go into oblivion soon after their release.
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Here is a song which I remember listening to in my younger days, though I never could find out those days which movie this song was from. That is how it was with loudspeaker songs those days. Unlike radio songs, they would not announce the name of the movie before playing such songs. 😉
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Apni aadat hai sabko salaam karna
Posted on: March 27, 2009
This is a very special song in more ways than one.
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Hai kali kali ke lab par
Posted on: March 27, 2009
Talat Mehmood was trying his hands on acting in addition to playback singing in 1950s. His singing career suffered as a result. What is more, sometimes the music directors in movies where he acted would contemplate using the voice of some other singer for Talat Mehmood. That way, Talat Mehmood sometimes found himself in the same boat as Kishore Kumar.
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Here is a typical Rafi song sung in Shammi style, except that this song was picturised on Joy Mukherjee, and he was the closest to Shammi Kapoor in such roles.
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In 1960s, there used to be a category of song that could be called “Radio” song. In this, the hero or heroine would sing a song and the heroine/ hero, as the case may be would listen to the song attentively.
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I have heard this song many a times. Knowing who the singer was no problem, and knowing that the song was from “Mere Huzoor” was no problem too, but that is all I knew about this song.
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Have you come across pedantic sort of people, who, instead of listening to what you have to say, try to point out your grammatical mistakes ?
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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