Posts Tagged ‘Rafi’
There have been several movies called “Kangan”. I just realised that I have not posted any songs from any of these movies. So here is a song from a C grade movie called “Kangan” (1959).
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Halla gulla lailla halla gulla
Posted on: June 2, 2010
“Dholak” (1950) was a movie that is not remembered much, but I have discovered that this movie was one of the biggest musical blockbuster movies of all times.
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Late 1960s was when Bollywood movie music was at its zenith. The quality and quantity of great songs those days was just mind boggling. Many great songs created those days found themselves to be marginalised and elbowed out in this stiff competition. No one has really chronicled all the great songs of those years, but I am sure that the number of such songs must be in several hundreds, if not in thousands.
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I have listened to this song many times and liked it, but all this while I had no clue about its details. This is one of those songs that have gone on to get implanted on the psyche of those who grew up listening to this and other songs of those days.
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Few people, including me have heard of this movie called “Apna Ghar Apni Kahani” (1968). This movie had come in an era when we had a glut of classy songs, and I do not recall ever listening to songs of this movie. Not that I could have been able to identify the songs as belonging to this movie, had I heard the songs then.
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Dil tera deewaanaa hai sanam
Posted on: May 30, 2010
Rafi-Shammi Kapoor songs are some of the most loved songs in Bollywood movies. Sometime ago, I had wondered what I was going to do if I run out of these Rafi-Shammi Kapoor songs to post. Well, I have posted over 2500 songs in this blog, and I find that I still have many Rafi-Shammi Kapoor songs not yet posted. So I still have lots of ground to cover.
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The title of this movie called “Ek Phool Chaar Kaante” (1960) looks traditional enough, but I am only just discovering that the music of this movie was anything but the usual stuff.
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tirchhi nazar se yoon naa dekh
Posted on: May 27, 2010
Most Bollywood songs only involve desi actors and foreigners are sadly left out. Considering that there is so much interest about Bollywood movies among non desis too, it is time they too should be made to feel at home in these movies. Gori girls in Bollywood movies too have the right to be teased and made passes at.
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Tiki riki tiki riki taakuri
Posted on: May 25, 2010
One normally associates Ghazals and serious songs with Madan Mohan, but that does not mean that Madan Mohan could not create other kinds of songs, including light hearted songs. One certainly does not associate a Helen-Asha Bhonsle party song with Madan Mohan, but here is one such song.
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I have mentioned in an earlier post that song planning in Bollywood movies of the past was like familiy planning of the past, viz there used do be nearly a dozen or so issues in either case.
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