Archive for the ‘Rafi solo’ Category
Ae mominon niyaaz dilaao imaam ki
Posted on: July 31, 2013
This article is written by Raja, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Today is the 33rd death anniversary of Mohammad Rafi. Or Rafi saab, as he is referred to, by many of his fans, including myself.
So what are my thoughts today?
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This article is written by nahm, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
I had never heard this song from the film ‘insaaniyat’ till a few months back. While travelling from our native place in Belgaum, we often hear some CDs in the car. I had bought a couple of CD’s sometime back which were kept in the car. Lately I find that it is the safest place to keep CD’s so that we get to hear them sometime if not often. Once I bring them home, they are bound to get lost , as happened with this CD where I heard this bhajan ‘apni chhaaya mein bhagwan bitthaa le mujhe’ for the first time. I brought the CD home so that I could look for this unheard song, and now the CD is not where I kept it handy next to the lap top.
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Rukh se parda to hata
Posted on: July 15, 2013
“Shaahi Mehmaan” (1955) was a Naaz Films production. It was directed by Balwant Bhatt. The movie had Ranjan, Shyama, Ram Sharma, Johnny Walker, Ulhas, S Nazir, Shammi etc in it.
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Jab dekh liya to chhupenge kahaan
Posted on: July 14, 2013
“Chiraag” (1969) was produced by Premji and directed by Raj Khosla for Suchitra Productions. The movie had Sunil Dutt, Asha Parekh, Lalita Pawar, Om Prakash, Sulochana Latkar, Dulari, Kanhaiyyalal, Mukri, Birbal, Nazir Hussain, Snehalata, Ram Avtaar,Asha Nadkarni etc in it.
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“Ganga Ki Saugandh” (1978) was Sultan Ahmad production. It had Amitabh Bachchan, Rekha, Prana, Amjad Khan, I S Johar, Bindu, Anju Mahendru etc in it.
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Ye bhool huyi bhoole se kabhi
Posted on: July 13, 2013
This article is written by nahm, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
The ‘harmonium song’ and ‘roadside tamasha song’ are no more featuring in films now. The last song of these genre that I can recall was in the film ‘Aashiqui’ by Kumar Sanu and Anuradha Paudwal which goes :
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Pehle paisa phir bhagwaan
Posted on: July 12, 2013
“Miss Mary” (1957) was an AVM Productions movie. It was produced by A V Meiyappan and directed by L V Prasad. The movie had Meena Kumari, Kishore Kumar, Gemini Ganeshan, Jamuna, Achla Sachdev, Jagdish Sethi, Randhir, Om Prakash, Karunanidhi, Maruti, Shivraj, Kesari, Meenakshi etc in it.
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Dukh sukh ki har ik maala
Posted on: July 11, 2013
Today (11 july 2013) is the 12th death anniversary of Qateel Shifaai (24 december 1919- 11 july 2001). He was mostly active in Pakistani movie industry as a lyricist, but some of his lyrics have been used in a few Hindi movie songs as well.
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Tum se dil kya lagaaya gaye kaam se
Posted on: July 11, 2013
“Duniya Rang Rangeeli” (1957) was a Sadiq Production movie. It was produced and directed by M Sadiq. The movie had Johnny Walker, Chand Usmani, Shyama, Rajendra Kumar, Jeevan, Amar, S N Banerjee etc in it.
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Ye mard bade dil sard bade
Posted on: July 10, 2013
“Miss Mary” (1957) was an AVM production movie. It was produced by A V Meiyappan and directed by L V Prasad. The movie had Meena Kumari, Kishore Kumar, Gemini Ganeshan, Jamuna, Achla Sachdev, Jagdish Sethi, Randhir, Om Prakash, Karunanidhi, Maruti, Shivraj, Kesari, Meenakshi etc in it.
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