Posts Tagged ‘Rafi’
A grade music in B grade movies- this has by now become a common refrain while discussing many of the songs in this blog. B grade movies had their own big name musi directors, and one of the biggest such names was undoubtedly Chitragupta.
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Aapka chehra maashaa allah
Posted on: January 12, 2012
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Janaury 12th is the birth anniversary of the great maestro Ramchandra Narhari Chitalkar, well known in Hindi film industry as C Ramchandra and also Chitalkar as a playback singer. C Ramchandra (CR) was one of the prominent music directors belonging to the golden era of Hindi films songs. If one goes by the number of songs he had composed of joyous mood, I guess, he must have been a fun loving person.
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Chehra kyaa gulaab hai
Posted on: January 12, 2012
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
‘Dilli Ka Dada’ is a film from 1962. As I started to write this piece, just wondered, how many films have been made whose names are based on city names, referring to someone from there. At first I thought, may not be many, but as I start to think about it, just in a couple of minutes, I could identify ‘Baghdad Ka Chor’ (1932, 1946, 1955), ‘Hyderabad Ki Naazneen’ (1952), ‘Arab Ka Saudagar’ (1956), ‘Dilli Ka Thug’ (1958), ‘Bombay Ki Billi’ (1960), ‘Bambai Ka Babu’ (1960), ‘Bombay Ka Chor’ (1962). And I am sure there are many more yet to be listed. Let’s see how many more such names our readers can up with. 🙂
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Apne nainon ko samjhaa de
Posted on: January 7, 2012
Here is a Rafi Lata duet that I was not aware of till now. This song is from “Maa Aur Mamta” (1970), which had Jeetendra and Mumtaz in lead roles.
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Allah hi Allah kar pyaare bhai
Posted on: January 7, 2012
“Pavitra Paapi” (1970) is a movie which had Parikshit Sahni in lead role. This movie is also known for some nice songs.
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Here is yet another “How come this song was not posted earlier” category of song. this song is from “Aankhen” (1950) which was a Shekhar, Nalini Jaiwant starrer.
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Yaad mein teri jaag jaag ke ham
Posted on: January 7, 2012
I can see that the category “How come this song was not yet posted” would have become the most popular category of songs had I opened it earlier. 🙂 Here is a song that rightaway belongs to that category.
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While looking for Jaidev compositions to be posted today (6th january) on his death anniversary, I came across gems after gems that I heard in my formative days without having any inkling that they were composed by Jaidev. These are songs that tempted me to hold on to them for some other special occasions. But if I hold on to all his compositions for some future occasion then I will have to stop discussing Jaidev compositions, such is the quality of all the songs that I am coming across.
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“Devi” (1970) is a movie which was produced by Olympic pictures. A V Subramaniam and T M Kittu were the producers and the movie was directed by V Madhusudan Rao. The movie had Sanjeev Kumar, Nutan, Farida Jalal,Aruna Irani,Mehmood, Jagirdaar, Madan Puri, Mukri, Rehman, Manmohan krishna, Moppet suraj(aka sarika),Vishwa Mehra, Mallika, Lalita Pawar, Sulochana Latkar, Manorama, Lalita Kumari, Dina Gandhi aka Dina Pathak etc in it.
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Phool sa chehra chaand si rangat
Posted on: January 4, 2012
4th january is the birthday of Pradeep Kumar, a leading actor of 1950s and 1960s, who later began to play character roles in 1970s. That way, he was the male equivalent and contemporary of Nirupa Roy with whom he shares his date of birth.
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