Archive for the ‘Rafi solo’ Category
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
If I were to ask the question ‘what was the common between Shailendra, Jaan Nisar Akhtar and Nyay Sharma’, the obvious answer is that they were lyricists for Hindi film songs during the golden era of Hindi film music. There is one more commonality between them. All of them tried their hands in producing a Hindi film in the 1960s which resulted in great financial strains on them from which they did not fully recover. In fact, after the release of their films, their careers as lyricist was on the downhill and in case of Shailendra, it ended with his untimely death.
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“Naya Kanoon” (1965) was a Manchanda production movie. It was directed by R C Talwar. The movie had Ashok KUmar, Bharat Bhushan, Vyjyantimala, Purnima, Nishi, Leela Misra, Kamal Mehra, Badri Prasad, Om Prakash etc in it.
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Pyaar wo shai hai ae mere yaaron
Posted on: March 22, 2013
This article is written by nahm, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Here comes a party song, performed by Mehmood in the film “Neela Aakash”” (1965). All songs of this movie are marvellous, including the one removed/unused from the film. I will come to that song in the next post.
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“Gumnaam” (1965) was a Prithvi Pictures production. It was produced by N N Sippy and directed by Raja Nawathe. The movie had Manoj Kumar, Nanda, Pran, Dhumal, Mehmood, Helen, Madan Puri, Tarun Bose, Manmohan, Naina, Laxmi Chhaaya, Hiralal etc in it.
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Jis raat ke khwaab aaye
Posted on: March 19, 2013
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular cotributor to this blog.
The name of Habba Khatoon, the Kashmiri poetess may not be familiar to many people. This name became familiar to me only sometime in 1987 when Muzzafar Ali ( of Umrao Jaan fame) announced his plan to make a film on the life of Habba Khatoon. Dimple Kapadia was taken for the title role with Vinod Khanna in the role of the first husband of Habba Khatoon. The title of the film was changed to ‘Zooni’, Habba Khatoon’s maiden name. The lyrics were to be written by Shahryar and Khayyam was to give the music direction. Muzzafar Ali believed that Zooni’s life was the powerful vehicle to project the real Kashmir. After nearly 20 months of shooting in Kashmir, the film was shelved in 1989 probably due to the rise of militancy in the Kashmir valley. I got my hand on a small video clip of the film on YT uploaded by Basheer Ali who was the Director of Photography for the film. From the content of the clip which also has a part of the song ‘rukh-e-dildaar deedam daras ko aaye preetam’ picturised on Dimple Kapadia, it appears that it was made as a part of marketing the film for international audience. The video clip is here.
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Ho diljaaniyaan
Posted on: March 19, 2013
“Naach Uthhe Sansaar” (1976) was directed by Yakub Hasan Rizvi. The movie had Shashi Kapoor, Hema Malini, Chandrima Bhaduri, Simi Garewal, Leela Mishra, Rajan Haksar, Aruna Irani, Roopesh Kumar, Rajendranath, Bhushan Tiwari, Ramayan Tiwari etc in it.
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“Gaban” (1966) was a B J Productions movie. It was directed by B N Sonthalia and R K Sorel and directed by Krishan Chopra and Hrishkesh Mukherji. The movie had Sunil Dutt, Sadhana, Zeb Rehman, Minoo Mumtaz, Agha, Kanhaiyalal, Anwar Hussain, Badri Prasad, Leela Mishra, P. Kailash, Pratima Devi, Kamal Kapoor, Misra, Sarita Devi, B. B. Bhalla, Brahm Bhardwaj, Surekha Pandit, R. K. Soral, Ravikant, Kailash Kumar, Sushil Kumar, Sandeep, Mohsin Abdullah, Haroon, Laxmi Arya, R. S. Dubey, Meenakshi, Saroj Banerjee, Mehar Banu, C. S. Dubey, Assi Dutt, Mukund Banerjee, Deenanath, Shekhchand, Hakeem Lateef, Ranjit, Polson, Hashmat Rai, Rajiv D. Grover, Bela Agha, Baldev Mehta, Ratan Gaurang, Abdul, Krishan Chopra, Moolchand etc in it.
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Here is a Rail song from the film ‘Aap ki Parchhaiyyan’ (1964). It is a Rafi solo written by Raja Mehdi Ali Khan and composed by Madan Mohan. Dharmendra is travelling in a train, going home to his parents, it would appear.
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