Posts Tagged ‘Agha’
Khaali jeben ho kadki ho ladki ho
Posted on: April 2, 2014
This article is written by nahm, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog. This article is meant to be posted in atulsongaday.me. If this article appears in sites like lyricstrans.com and ibollywoodsongs.com etc then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.
A very special song for Mohammad Rafi fans. This is what is real effortless singing. He makes it sound as if it is his ‘baayen haathh ka khel’. And it was his forte to seamlessly go from one mood to another, go from light, comic mode to qawwali, sounding quite serious and melodious and switch to western style, all in the space of less than a minute. If what I say does not make sense, than one can only listen to this song and confirm. What range and what smoothness of voice and diction. And adding the punjabi tadka too in a spoken line towards the end of the song.
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O meharbaan dekho zara
Posted on: September 2, 2013
Today (2 september 2013) is the birth anniversary of Sadhana, the heart throb of movie goers in 1960s, whose “Sadhana cut” hairstyle was a big craze those days. She had a dream run in 1960s and then she suffered an ailment that forced her to take a break from movies. By the time she came back, the movie world had moved on and had passed her by. That is how it is in the movie world.
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Teri nazron ne hamko chheda hai
Posted on: August 22, 2013
This article is written by Arunkumar Deshmukh, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
This is the second song in the series “Music Directors singing for other Music Directors”.
This is a song from film BARAATI-1954,sung by Chitalkar and Asha Bhonsale. The Music Director was Roshan.
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Tu hai chanda to main hoon chakor
Posted on: August 17, 2013
“Aagosh” (1953) was a Nihal Films Production. It was directed by R D Mathur. The movie had Nasir Khan, Nutan, Shakila, Agha, Leela Misra, S. Nazir, Manoj, Menka etc in it.
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Main hoon Rosie main hoon Mary
Posted on: July 24, 2013
This article is written by Arunkumar Deshmukh, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
This is a club dance song from the film KARIGAR-1958. I have already written about the film Karigar and the unique friendship of Vasant Joglekar-the producer/Director of this film and actor Ashok Kumar in my comments on another song from the movie.
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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 some how reach a Majrooh Sultanpuri song very often. This one is a comic song in the film Maaya (1961). The music director for this film is Salil Chaudhary and it is written by Majrooh. Mohammad Rafi is singing this solo song for Agha. Helen is also seen in the picturization. Agha and Helen are indulging in western style dance using props. Helen is brandishing a small purse and Agha has two props, a hat and a walking stick to dance with. They are also using some extra artist standing around, as ‘Ellora Ajanta Qutub Minar” and Dilli, Bombay and Calcutta.
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“Kaali Topi Laal Roomaal” (1959) was a Janta Chitra Production movie. It was directed by Tara Harish. The movie had Chandrashekhar, Shakila, K. N. Singh, Agha, Kumkum, Mukri, Naina, Kamal Mehra etc in it.
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mini mini chi chi
Posted on: September 12, 2012
Today (12 september) is Jaikishan’s birth anniversary. One half of the famous Shankar Jaikishan duo, Jaikishan had died quite young at an age of 41 on this day in 1971. He achieved so much at such a young age . The Shankar Jaikishan duo were easily the most dominant and prolific music directors of the golden era of Hindi movie music.
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Phoolon se dosti hai
Posted on: July 3, 2012
In old Hindi movies, especially those of 1950s and 1960s, we often see songs picturised on “Taanga”, also called “Tonga”, not to be confused with a country of this name. 🙂
“Taanga” was actually a mode of public transport in India those days. With time, Taanga has all but vanished as a mode of public transport in India. But they have not become extinct. One can still find them in some small towns of India. I have noticed them in small places in Madhya Pradesh, Chattisgarh etc. In fact, one can see them in Fatehpur Sikri near Agra in UP. I recall that we (I, my wife and daughter) actually rode on a Taanga to go to Fatehpur Sikri a few years ago.
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Kal saajnaa milna yahaan
Posted on: July 2, 2012
This article is written by nahm, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
I dont know how it is that I am finding songs penned by Majrooh Sultanpuri again and again. The song which is under discussion is from the film “Ardhangini”. From the other songs posted here and seen on youtube it is seen that this film stars Meena Kumar and Raj Kumar, and from the title and songs I assume this to be similar type of social film like ‘Aarti”.
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