Posts Tagged ‘Majrooh Sultanpuri’
Shammi Kapoor helped launch the careers of many heroines, because he was one hero who was not averse to acting opposite raw youngsters. In fact, actresses like Saira Bano and Sharmila Tagore actually made their debuts opposite Shammi Kapoor and that helped their career take off.
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Haay re tere chanchal nainwa
Posted on: January 7, 2009
“Oonche log” (1965), not to be confused with “Oonche log” (1985) was an interesting movie which had no role for females. The supposed leading lady of the movie hardly had any role or dialogues in the movie. I cannot understand the reason behind such misogyny on the part of the makers of this movie.
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Aaja re mere pyaar ke raahi
Posted on: January 6, 2009
This is one song that I had never heard before. There is nothing new in that. It is becoming a habit with me. 😉
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Wow, what a song ! I have listened to this song many a times even though I did not have an inkling about which movie this song was from, or even who the singers were. I thought that Mukesh and Lata were the singers. But I find now that the female voice is Suman Kalyanpur. I think Suman Kalyanpur has sung similar number of songs as Mukesh and she had a Mukesh like midas touch too. A large number of her songs have gone on to become very popular, just like how it was with Mukesh.
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Jodi hamaari jamega kaise jaani
Posted on: January 3, 2009
This song from “Aulaad” is a long standing farmaish of Raja, but all these days I had been hampered from posting it because its video is not available. After searching for its video and drawing a blank, I took its audio clip and I decided to present this song with the picture of Chitragupta, the music director of this movie and indeed of this song.
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This song from “Baat ek raat ki” (1962) is regarded as a Hemant Kumar classic. This song is picturised on Dev Anand and Waheeda Rahman. Technically this song should be called a duet because Suman Kalyanpur’s voice is also there,singing for Waheeda Rahman, but she sings hardly one line or two.
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Tum bin jaaun kahaan
Posted on: December 31, 2008
This outstanding song “tum bin jaaun kahan” appears twice in the movie. This song was sung by Rafi for Shashi Kapoor and Kishore Kumar for a lesser character. Lyricist was Majrooh Sultanpuri and music was composed by R D Burman.
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I have already mentioned that the movie “Dosti” (1964) was made memorable thanks to its music. Rafi sang some immortal songs in this movie and Laxmikant Pyarelal’s career was launched big time with this movie.
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“Dosti” (1964) was a Rajshri production movie that had an idealistic and moralistic storyline. But the movie is today known for its music. Just about every song ( most of them Rafi solos) went on to become immortal songs. It is difficult to pick the best of them, and I advise that one should avoid the temptation to rank them, and instead one should just enjoy listening to them.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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