Posts Tagged ‘Rafi’
when one listens to O P Nayyar’s music, one often may find his music sounding same. But when one frees one’s mind of such pre conceived notions (viz. different compositions of a music composer needs to sound different from each other), one can enjoy music the best. And in case of O P Nayyar’s music, one should listen to the music and enjoy the indescribable quality of enjoyment that these compositions bring. This quality cannot be taught/ learnt/passed on to future generations. It was a quality that went into oblivion with O P Nayyar. And we need to savour the legacy that O P Nayyar has left behind.
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“Dil Tera Deewaana” (1962) was a Padmini Pictures production. It was directed by B Ramkrishna Pantulu. The satr cast included Shammi Kapoor, Mala Sinha, Mehmood,Shubha Khote,Pran, Om Prakash, Ulhas, Mohan Choti, Mumtaz Begam, Kammo, Manmohan Krishna etc.
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This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Continuing the search for the qawwaali form of music in Hindi films, I come across two wonderful qawwaalis from the film Bahu Begum (1967). I present the first one in this write up.
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“Swarg Narak” (1978) was produced by Vijaya Productions and directed by Dasari Narayan Rao. This movie had Sanjeev Kumar, Jeetendra,Tanuja,Vinod Mehra,Mausami Chatterji,Shabana Azmi,Jagdeep, Om Shivpuri,Komila Wirk,Raj Mehra, Shammi, Vikram Gokhale, Birbal etc.
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Koyal kyun gaaye
Posted on: October 12, 2011
Here is a song that I thought had already been discussed in this blog but I was wrong.
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Here is a song about which I was not aware of. It is from an obscure movie called “Aanchal Ke Phool” (1968). I became aware of this movie and this song only after the lyrics of this song were sent to me by nahm.
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“Husn Ka Chor” (1953) is a quintessential B grade movie which was a Basant Pictures presentation. It was directed by J B H Wadia. The movie had Lalita Kumari, Mahipal, Arti, Usha Kiran, Babu Raje, Jiji Goldstein, Sharda, B. M. Vyas, Dalpat, Sardar Mansoor, Raja Sandow, Mithu Miya etc. in it.
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Zara sun haseena e naazneen
Posted on: October 10, 2011
This article is written by Raja, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Madness manifests itself in many forms. And not just differently in different people but also differently at different times in the same person. Long before I got to learn of the term OCD (Obsessive Compulsive Disorder), I can claim to have exhibited signs that would make an OCD affected person proud.
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Most movie songs that we get to listen to are from movies that got released. But there are a few songs which are from movies that never got released. Movies may have got shelved for varous reasons, but a few songs of these movies managed to get recorded and they came into circulation as well.
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