Posts Tagged ‘Rafi’
Bahaaron ki baaraat aa gayi
Posted on: February 1, 2011
Though I have seen “Yakeen” (1969) in a movie hall, I do not remember most of its details except a couple of songs that I have already discussed in this blog. I in fact do not even remember the other songs from this movie.
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Lelo sone ka laddoo
Posted on: January 30, 2011
He is a song that I heard for the first time only recently. This song is from a movie called “Paisa Hi Paisa” (1956) and this movie too is unfamiliar to me.
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Ajab tori duniyaa ho more Rama
Posted on: January 29, 2011
“Do Beegha Zameen” (1953) was one of the first Hindi movies to win international acclaim (At Cannes Film festival), in addition to sweeping the awards at the inaugural Filmfare awards.
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Johny Walker was perhaps the first non Hero who began to have songs picturised on him on a regular basis. Many of these songs became very popular.
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Songs of 1940s and 1950s are nostalgia lovers’ delight. These songs magically transport us back to the era when Rehana was a leading lady and Premnath was a lead actor.
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During the golden era of Hindi movie music (circa 1950-1980), things were quite simple and rudimentary in most fields. Hindi movie songs tended to become popular only if the movie did better, and the movies did better only if they followed certain set formulaes. Movies that tended to deviate from the standard formulae tended to fail and as a result, the songs of such movies too would suffer.
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For most music lovers,”Bheegi Raat” (1965) is synonymous with its iconic song viz. Dil jo na kah saka. Of course, no Hindi movie worth its salt had only one song in it. This movie too had more songs in it, it is just that the other songs from this movie got overshadowed by the above mentioned song.
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Kyun mile ham tum bewafaa o sanam
Posted on: January 6, 2011
Fans of my generation remember Ashok Kumar and Nirupa Roy for playing the roles of parents, but that was not always the case. In their younger days (it may be difficult to believe, but they were actually young as some time in the past), they actually acted in lead roles.
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“Mehboob Ki Mehandi” (1971) is a movie starring Rajesh Khanna and Leena Chandawarkar. This Muslim social movie had some wonderful songs in it, which remain popular to this day.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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