Archive for the ‘Rafi solo’ Category
Door rahkar na karo baat
Posted on: November 3, 2008
The movie is called “Amaanat” and this was a movie starring Manoj Kumar and Sadhana. The voice of Rafi, singing for Manoj Kumar sounds so divine. The music is by Ravi and Sahir has written the lyrics.
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“Do Raaste” was one of the earlier hits of Rajesh Khanna. This movie, like most hits of Rajesh Khanna, had many hit songs. In fact, I am coming round to the view that many movies of those days became hits thanks to their music and the credit went to the Hero, often undeservedly. There are people who think that Rajendra Kumar movies were hits thanks to the music of his movies, and not because of his tragic roles.
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Kaun hai jo sapnon mein aaya
Posted on: November 1, 2008
Rajendra Kumar was known as Dilip Kumar clone, and he was quite a successful one at that too. In fact, Rajendra Kumar was popularly known as “Jubilee” Kumar because most of his movies used to celebrate at least Silver jubilee (25 weeks in a movie hall) and even more.
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Yaad naa jaaye beete dinon ki
Posted on: October 24, 2008
“Dil ek Mandir”, regarded as one of the celebrated melancholic movie in Bollywood industry is full of sad songs to match, almost all of which went on to become very popular and in fact evergreen. I have already posted a couple of songs from this movie in this blog. This movie had one nice song after another coming out as if they were coming out of some assembly line.
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Here is an out and out tapori song that became an out and out evergreen classic song, and an iconic song if ever there was one.
I am sure when this song first appeared on the air waves, it must have taken everyone by storm. Listening to this audio itself is such a wonderful exhilarating experience, and when one watches the video of the song, the roof has no option but to fall down.
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Akele hain chale aao
Posted on: October 18, 2008
“Raaz” was a Rajesh Khanna movie produced in 1967, before he had become a superstar. In those days, Rafi used to be the playback singer for male lead, and that is indeed the case in this movie.
This song “akele hain chale aao” has been sung by Rafi as well as Lata. Personally, I like the Rafi version more.
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Akele akele kahaan jaa rahe ho
Posted on: October 16, 2008
Shammi Kapoor, who started his career with a whimper in 1950s, began to create waves in 1960s, beginning with “kashmir Ki kali”, and ever since, all his subsequent movies saw him playing similar roles in movies with similar story lines.
One common thread in all these movies used to be lilting music, typically sung by Rafi with gusto.
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Usha Khanna, the sole female music director in Bollywood movies in the last 50 years remained confined to lesser movies for most of her career. But every once in a while, she tended to rise above the mediocrity of the movies she gave music in.
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“Gopi” was one of the last movies with Dilip Kumar as the hero. In this movie, Dilip Kumar sings a few philosophical songs. This song “sukh ke sab saathi” is perhaps the best known of the songs of this movie.
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When one talks of tragic actors, what are the names that come to mind ? Guru Dutt and Meena Kumari ? It may be news for people, but in the first decade of their career viz 1950s, they were both known for playing positive, energetic ,bubbly characters oozing with zest for life.
The crown for being the first major tragedy queen of that era should rightfully belong to Nutan. She played quite a few memorable tragic roles in movies. She in fact played a tragic role as early as in 1955 in a movie called “Seema”.
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