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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 have heard this song after some 20 years or so today. A regular song on Vividh Bharati. They played both Rafi Sahab and Chandrani Mukherjee’s versions frequently. Like many of those Rafi and Lata solo version songs, this one too is in memory, with one line following the other in the mind. So typing the lyrics is fast work. I thought the female version must be Lata’s. But it turns out that the female singer is Chandrani Mukherjee, who is gamely trying to match Rafi sahab pitch for pitch. On radio she sounded a lot better than on the ear phones on which I heard it now. The ear phones have no heart and no mercy for even the greatest of singers, so none are spared.
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“Dil Ne Phir Yaad Kiya”(1966) was a Rawal Films Production movie. This movie was produced by B L Rawal and directed by C L Rawal. The lyrics of this song were written by G L Rawal. The movie boasted of some big names in its starcast, viz. Dharmendra,Nutan, Rehman, Bela Bose, Laxmi Chhaya, I.S.Johar, Mumtaz Begum, Jeevan, Randhir, Sunder, TunTun, Niranjan Sharma, Ravikant, JeevanKala, Madhumati, Pal Sharma, Brahm Bhardwaj etc in it. The story line of the movie unfortunately was meant to appeal to masochists and their numbers were dwindling among movie goers. As a result this movie failed at the box office.
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“Zimbo comes to town” (1960) was a Combine Film Theatres production. The movie was produced by Homi Wadia and directed by Nanabhai Bhatt. The movie had Chitra, Azad, Bhagwan, Shammi, Nilofar, Habeeb, Dalpat, Bismillah, Mittu Miyan, M. K. Hasan, Geeta, Julian, Korega, Yadav, Ratan, Raman Joshi, Pedro aka Manav Chimpazi etc in it.
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This article is written by Raja, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.

A few weeks ago I got a request from Avinash Scrapwalaji to do a write-up for a certain song. He sent me, by e-mail, the concerned lyrics and the videos (audio only) but, for some reason, wanted me to do the write-up.
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This article is written by nahm, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.

Seven song of the film Sangeet Samrat Tansen (1962) are posted in the blog. This singular Rafi solo is the eighth song to appear. It seems to me that Bharat Bhooshan is in the title role. The song is the creation of lyricist Shailendra and Music Director S N Tripathi. But to elevate this song in a film based on a vocalist life, the onus rest heavily on Rafi Sahab. And the award goes to Mohammed Rafi Sahab. Not lyrical, not musical but a vocal beauty, this one.
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This article is written by Arunkumar Deshmukh, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.

This is a song from Film- Paapi-1953, a film largely remembered for the only Double Role that Raj kapoor ever did in his career. Another reason to remember this film was that this was a film Directed by Sardar Chandulal Shah, the owner of Ranjit Studios and Ranjit Movietone. To understand why his direction was important in this film, we will have to go into the history of Ranjit first.
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