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This article is written by nahm, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
We reach the alphabet ‘J’ in the series. I had actually finalised a duet song for this alphabet. The lyrics were all ready, but than I just thought to check what are the options for the rest of the alphabets. I made a list of appealing and interesting songs for them. But it occurred to me that none of those songs I had shortlisted were Shammi Kapoor songs. Now this would be unthinkable, no song of Shammi Kapoor vintage in the series will render it incomplete.
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“Beraham” (1980) was directed by Raghunath Jhalani. The movie had Sanjeev Kumar, Mala Sinha, Shatrughan Sinha, Reena Roy, Mausami Chatterji, Kader Khan, Helen, Brahm Bhardwaj, Viju Khote, Urmila Bhatt, R S Chopra, C S Dubey, Dev Kumar, Manmohan, Keshto Mukherji, Raj Mehra etc in it.
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“Preetam” (1971) was produced and directed by Bhappie Sonie. The movie had Shammi Kapoor, Vinod Khanna, Leena Chandavarkar, Helen, Raj Mehra, Tiwari, Anwar Hussain, Manmohan, Siddhu, Malika, Urmila Bhatt, Raj Kishore, Ravikant, Daya Devi, Shyam, Dhanraj, Robert Slater, Birbal, Naaz, Dhumal, Mehmood etc in it.
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Ireera raaka aaka ka baaka
Posted on: September 4, 2013
This article is written by nahm, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Recently I have requested Sudhir Sir to find a rare Rafi song for me. It is a song which actually brought me to to this blog. It is a non-film song which nobody seems to know anything about. Three years ago I was desperately searching for the full lyrics of this prayer poem ‘Khud jiyo auron ko bhi jeene do’. I searched extensively on the net but could not find the full lyrics. I had no inkling at that time that Rafi sahab had sung this song. But some site (I do not remember which one) had this information that this prayer/poem was by Rafi sahab and it was picturized in a film by Films Division of India, where none other than Prithvi Raj Kapoor is singing it in front of a classroom. There after I searched for it high and dry,but the result was always zilch. Now I have no way of verifying if the information about the song is strictly correct or not. But it was a start and unfortunately also the end of it. All this time this thing has always been in the back of my mind, which comes to fore from time to time. Like it did the other day when I made that request to Sudhir Sir.
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Arre bus mein nazar takraai
Posted on: September 2, 2013
We have discussed over two thousand songs of Rafi in this blog which adds up to just over 40 % of all the songs that he has sung in Hindi movies. Many of these songs are extremely well known songs, but at the same time we have also come across some totally unheard of songs. It no longer surprises me or regulars of this blog when we come across Rafi songs that we had never heard before.
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Ajeeb zindagi hai ye
Posted on: September 1, 2013
“Door Nahin Manzil”(1973), though a recent movie by the standards of this blog is an obscure movie. This movie was an International Enterprises production. It was directed by Hari Walia. The movie had Sanjeev Kumar, Reshma, Durga Khote, Pradeep Kumar, Fariyal, Manmohan, Hina, Maruti, Suresh etc in it.
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“Lambe Haath” (1960) was a D M Movies production. It was directed by Krishna Malik. The movie had Mehmood, Naaz, Daisy Irani, Jagdish Sethi, Nazi, Mridula, Baij Sharma, Brahma Bhardwaj, Rajan Haksar, Fazal, Deepak Kumar, Shakuntala Devi, Moolraj, Babulal, Rafeeq, Shyam Sunder, Mirza, Ketaki Bai, Raj Dutt, Cheenu etc in it.
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This article is written by nahm, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
After the eid song with “E” with Lata Mangeshkar and Rafi Sahab, let us move on to ‘F’. Easier said than done as my troubles start here, there being very few song starting with this alphabet. And among those few a good percentage of songs are already posted, like ‘ fariyaad na karna haay kahin fariyaad na karna ‘, ‘falsafa pyaar ka tum kya jaano’, ‘falak bola zameen boli’ etc.
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