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Till 1960s,when India was in terrible shape on almost all fronts,and Indians depended on foodgrain imports even to feed themselves, it was the Prime minister Lal Bahadur Shastri who decided that India needed to be self sufficient in growing food stuffs. He also gave a slogan “Jai Jawan Jai Kissan”.
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O mere shaahe khubaan
Posted on: January 13, 2009
This Rafi song is so reminiscent of the Rafi-Shammi Songs of 1960s. And for long, I actually thought so.
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Aji roothkar ab kahaan jaayiyega
Posted on: January 11, 2009
Old Bollywood movies had party scenes, where there would be a good gathering, and one of the main characters ( hero or heroine,either alone, or together) would sing a song.
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When I was about to post this song, I came to know that this song was already posted. When I double checked, I came to know that the “tumse accha kaun hai” song that I had posted was from “Jaanwar”, where this “tumse accha kaun hai” song is from, well “Tumse accha kaun hai”.
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If you are an antakshari aspirant and need to come up with songs beginning from “A”, look no futher than “Aarzoo”. It has a song that goes “Ae nargise mastana”. If this song is already used up ( or posted in case of this blog) then here is another “ae phoolon ki raani bahaaron ki malika”.
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Rafi has sung songs of many genres. When it came to drunkard songs, he began to sing such songs in 1960s. Most of these drunk songs tended to be sung for Raj Kumar,but he sang such songs for other actors too.
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Main gaaun tum so jaao
Posted on: January 8, 2009
The movie “Brahmachari” (1968 ) is very well known for its music. Two of its fast dance numbers- “dil ke jharokhen me” and “aj kal tere mere pyaar ke charche” in fact, have gone on to become the stuff of legends.
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Ae nargise mastaana
Posted on: January 8, 2009
Many of the big heroes of 1950s and 1960s owe a lot of their success to Rafi. Many movies of those days succeeded mainly because of the songs, and Rafi was the male singer in these songs.
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Har chehra yahaan chaand
Posted on: January 8, 2009
I have been discussing Bollywood songs for the last several months. Most of these songs were composed by big established names. But there were a few songs that were created by less known music directors.
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Ghulabi aankhen jo teri dekhin
Posted on: January 7, 2009
Watching the picturisation of this song, I cannot help feeling that the maker of this movie must have had Shammi Kapoor in mind while picturising this song. And indeed, when one listens to this song, one gets the feeling that one is listening to one of the Rafi songs sung for Shammi Kapoor.
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