Posts Tagged ‘Rafi’
The title “Dushman” seems to be quite a popular title of Hindi movie makers. I am aware of at least three movies of this name, starring K L Saigal, Dev Anand and Rajesh Khanna. In addition, other movies of this title may have been produced later too.
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Dil le ke chhupne waale
Posted on: June 23, 2011
During late 1940s and early 1950s, Rehman used to act as hero in Hindi movies. Unfortunately most such movies with him as the hero seem to have ended up as obscure movies, and he finally had to end up making his living as character artist in subsequent years.
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“Ram Rajya” (1967) is a movie that failed to do well at the box office because mainstream audiences of those days (and even today) by and large kept away from religious movies.
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Lab pe fariyaad hai dil barbaad hai
Posted on: June 22, 2011
“Naach” (1949) is a movie that I became aware of only recently. And I have since found that this movie has some lovely songs in it.
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Hallo hallo o meri chhammak chhallo
Posted on: June 19, 2011
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hinsi movie songs and a regular contributor to this blog.
School Master (1959) is a significant contribution of the famous Kannada actor-director BR Panthulu. This movie was made in several languages (Kannada, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and Hindi), and its theme and storyline has been copied and remade several times, the latest being the Amitabh-Hema starrer Baghbaan in 2003.
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Chale ho kahaan karke jee beqaraar
Posted on: June 19, 2011
Here is a song from a light hearted movie called “Bhaagam Bhaag” (1956). The song begins with Shashikala lip syncing in Asha Bhonsle’s voice. Then Kishore Kumar appears singing not in his voice but in Rafi’s voice. Yes, this song is one of the few occasions when Kishore Kumar, despite his well known singing prowess, was made to lip sync in another playback singer’s voice.
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Teri mehfil mein aaye hain
Posted on: June 17, 2011
I have so far discussed 54 out of around 100 songs that Sajjad Hussain composed for Hindi movies. The remaining songs are highly elusive and I am always on the lookout for them.
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Ek dukhiyaari apne piyaa ko
Posted on: June 16, 2011
“Apsara” (1961) is a forgotten movie which had Pradeep Kumar, Padmini etc in it. This movie had some nice songs in it that unfortunately sank with the movie.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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