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“Nav Durga” (1953) was a Basant Pictures Production. It was directed by Babubhai Mistry. This mythological movie had Mahipal, Usha Kiran, Dalpat, Sulochana Chatterji, Raja Sandow, Maruti, S. N. Tripathi, Amarnath etc in it.
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Chalo ab kehna maan jaao
Posted on: August 13, 2012
I have mentioned it in the past that Rafi and Geeta Dutt have sung about 155 duets together and the majority of these duets are not under O P Nayyar or S D Burman’s music direction, but under the baton of Chitragupta.
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Mud mud hamko dekhta
Posted on: August 12, 2012
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“Raagini” (1958) was an Ashok Pictures production. It was directed by Rakhan. The movie had Ashok Kumar, Kishore Kumar, Jabeen Jalil, Padmini, Nazir Hussain, Achla Sachdev etc in it.
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Ye taaron bhari raat
Posted on: August 12, 2012
Yesterday Raja got me going on Geeta Dutt-Rafi duets after he sent me some statistics regarding Geeta Dutt songs in general and Geeta Dutt-Rafi duets in particular. According to those details, Geeta Dutt has sung most number of her songs for Chitragupta (about 100 songs). Also, Geeta Dutt has sung 155 duets with Rafi, and most number of these duets (30 numbers) are with Chitragupta, which may come as a surprise for music lovers, who may guess otherwise.
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Ham tumse poochhte hain
Posted on: August 11, 2012
When I was growing up as a kid in 1970s, I was a very enthusiastic cricket statistician. By going through various resources, I had painstakingly collected details about all the test matches that were ever played till then. Maintaining those records is no longer necessary for cricket lovers now that we are in the era of internet and comprehensive cricket related statistics are available online.
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Bhaagwat Bhagwaan ki hai aarti
Posted on: August 10, 2012
“Bhaagwat Mahima” (1955) was a Filmistan production. It was directed by V panchotia. The movie had Sunder, Prem Adeeb, Krishna Kumari, Sheela Naik, S. N. Puri, Madan Puri, Navin Yagnik etc in it.
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Hamen koi gham hai
Posted on: August 9, 2012
- In: Asha Bhonsle songs | Duet | Feelings of heart | Kishore Kumar lip syncing in another voice | Lyrics by Sadanand Kamath | Lyrics contributed by readers | One singer singing for two actors | Rafi songs | Rafi-Asha Bhonsle duet | Songs of 1950s (1951 to 1960) | Songs of 1956 | Yearwise breakup of songs
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Over one thousand duets have been discussed in the blog. The most prolific team of duet singers in the blog (as well as in Hindi movies) must be Rafi and Asha Bhonsle. As many as 256 Rafi-Asha Bhonsle duets have been discussed in the blog. These 256 Rafi -Asha Bhonsle duet are composed by as many as 44 music directors.
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