Archive for the ‘Rafi solo’ Category
“Ham Dono” was a 1961 movie featuring Dev Anand ( double role) with Nanda and Sadhana. This movie had Dev Anand in the role of an army man.
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Saawan ke maheene mein
Posted on: February 4, 2009
Like most people, I too thought that “Sharaabi” was a movie of 1984 with Amiabh Bachchan and Jaya Prada in it and with the music of Bappi Lahiri.
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O nanhe se farishte
Posted on: February 2, 2009
This movie “Ek Phool Do Mali” was a lovely movie that touched the hearts of the movie goers who watched this movie.
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Subhaan Allah Haseen Chehra
Posted on: February 1, 2009
There are Shammi Kapoor fans who give their farmaishes to post songs where Shammi Kapoor is dressed like a female.
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Chaalke teri aankhon se
Posted on: February 1, 2009
Last month, I had been posting the innumerable songs of “Aarzoo” alphabetically. I had posted all the songs beginning from the letters A and B and now I am on to the letter C.
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Ab kya misaal doon main
Posted on: January 30, 2009
In this fourth song of “Aarti” that I am posting in this blog, The two lead actors have become familiar with each other and they can take the liberty of opening their hearts to each other.
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I have talked about Rafi singing brilliant songs for Shammi Kapoor. This led to many imitators, who would make Shammi Kapoor movies by signing up Shammi Kapoor clones. Thus we had actors like Joy Mukherjee, Vishwajeet etc who had reasonably successful careeres playing Shammi Kapoor type roles.
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Mili khaaq mein muhabbat
Posted on: January 28, 2009
It is difficult to believe it now, but both Guru Dutt and Meena Kumari actually used to play happy roles when they began their acting careers. It was sometime in late 1950s that both began to act in sad roles and they both got typecast into such roles so much that their past roles were soon forgotten.
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Iss rang badalti duniya mein
Posted on: January 27, 2009
Here is yet another Rafi-Shammi Kapoor song which is sung and picturised with the same passion which we have come to associate with such songs. Hasrat Jaipuri is the lyricist and Shankar Jaikishan are the music director, as was the case in majority of such songs.
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Ye desh hai veer jawaanon ka
Posted on: January 26, 2009
India became independent in 1947 but the course that the new nation would take was determined on 26th January, 1950 when Indians gave themselves their constitution.
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