Archive for the ‘Rafi solo’ Category
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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Le ja uss ki duaayen
Posted on: March 13, 2013
This article is written by nahm, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
This is one of those few songs that Mohammed Rafi sang for Music Director Anil Biswas for the film ‘Heer’ (1956). Eight songs from this film already posted in the blog. They are all very touching song. This is a film on the legend of Heer-Ranjha, a folk lore of Punjab. Much of the folk music and poetry from this region is devoted to such legendary love stories like Heer-Ranjha, Sohni-Mahiwal and Mirza-Sahibaan. This song ‘ le ja uss ki du’aayen ho jo tera ho na sakaa ‘ is the ninth song to appear in the blog.
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“Shiv Bhakt” (1955) was an A V M production movie. It was directed by H L M Sinha. The movie had Shahu Modak, Ragini, Misra, Padmini, Pandhari Bai, Anant Kumar, Gope etc in it.
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Aaya hai zamaana aurat ka
Posted on: March 8, 2013
Today (8 march 2013) is the International women’s day. When I looked up, I find that this day is being celebrated as International women’s day since 1977 when the United Nations General Assembly invited member states to proclaim March 8 as the UN Day for women’s rights and world peace.
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