Posts Tagged ‘Rafi’
Apni baanhon se koi kaam to lo
Posted on: August 14, 2012
This article is written by Raja, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog. This song is Hasrat Jaipuri’s 400th song in the blog
Today is the first death anniversary of Shammi Kapoor, one of Hindi cinema’s most loved actors of all-time.
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Aji aisa mauka phir kahaan milega
Posted on: August 14, 2012
Though we have discussed lots and lots of songs picturised on Shammi Kapoor, there are still songs that have yet to make it to the blog. Today (14th august 2012) is the first death anniversary of Shammi Kapoor. This offers us an opportunity to pay our tribute to Shammi Kapoor by discussing a few songs picturised on him.
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Yaaron soorat hamaari pe mat jaao
Posted on: August 14, 2012
Today (14 august 2012) is the first death anniversary of Shammi Kapoor. It is unbelievable but true that one year has already passed when we have been without him.
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Raja recently informed me that Rafi and Geeta Dutt had sung nearly 155 duets together and that most of these duets (30) were under the music direction of Chitragupta.
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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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Main tooti huyi ek naiyya hoon
Posted on: August 12, 2012
“Aadmi” (1968) was a S V Productions movie. It was directed by A Bhim Singh. The movie had Dilip Kumar, Waheeda Rehman, Manoj Kumar, Pran, Simi Garewal, Sulochana, Ullhas, Mohan Choti, Agha 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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