Posts Tagged ‘Chitragupta’
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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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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Meri behna ye raakhi ki laaj
Posted on: August 2, 2012
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Greetings and best wishes to all readers for the festival of Raksha Bandhan today.
This song is from the 1985 film ‘Ghar Dwaar’. The film is produced by Mohan ji Prasad and SK Jain, and is directed by Kalptaru. The star cast of this film is impressive and includes Shriram Lagoo, Tanuja, Sachin, Raj Kiran, Shoma Anand, Kadar Khan, Ashok Saraf, Ashalata etc. The music for this film is composed by Chitragupt. Checking through the available articles on Chitragupt ji, he passed away in 1991. This film could well be one of the last films that he composed for. I am unable to locate the name of the lyricist, and would request other knowledgeable readers to please add this information.
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Pardesi piyaa ho pardesi piyaa
Posted on: July 31, 2012
Today (31st july) is the death anniversary of Rafi. This date also happens to be the birthday of Mumtaz (born on 31 july 1947 at Mumbai), the much beloved leading lady of 1960s amd 1970s.
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When I met Sudhir Jee a few days ago, one of the things that we discussed was the fact that there are so many film personalities that we have discussed and many more that are not yet covered and not yet discussed. How we would like to have a comprehensive list of all the anniversaries of all the film personalities, so that we could discuss their songs on their anniversaries. Once we have our list of anniversary dates ready, we may have our hands full, what with every date of the year most likely having a few anniversaries.
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“Baaghi” (1964) was a Mukul Movies production. It was directed by Ram Dayal. The movie had Pradeep Kumar, Leela Naidu, Helen, Mumtaz, Jeevan, Veena, Ulhas, Naaz, Vijaya Choudhry, Jagdeep etc in it.
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Mat poochhiye dil hai kahaan
Posted on: July 24, 2012
“Ham Matwaale Naujawaan” (1961) was a Rover Films Production. It was directed by L R Asthana. The movie had Shekhar, Sayeeda Khan, Jeevan, Agha, Chaman Puri etc in it.
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