Posts Tagged ‘Rafi’
“Laal Patthar” (1971) is a movie that has been forgotten with time.
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“Nausherwan e Adil” (1957) was a blockbuster movie produced by G P Sippy. This movie had some superb songs in it.
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Aaja karle muqaablaa
Posted on: February 11, 2010
I have posted a couple of songs from “Detective” (1958) in the past. This was a suspense movie directed by Shakti Samanta. This movie had Pradeep Kumar and Mala Sinha in lead roles.
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Aapne chheen liyaa dil
Posted on: February 11, 2010
When it comes to playback singing, especially female playback singing, Mangeshkar family of siblings rules.
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I have been posting the songs of “Sargam” (1950) here these days. It is while posting these songs that I am discovering these songs for the first time. What wonderful songs these are ! And I am also surprised at the number of such songs. There are at least a dozen such songs, and all of them just mind boggling. And it is just as mind boggling to realise that this movie has been forgotten today.
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“Jaagriti” (1954) was an idealistic movie that was produced just a few years after Indian independence when people of India were in an idealisting and nation building mode. Several songs of this movie went on to become iconic songs. It is in this movie that we have songs like “Aao bachhon tumhen dikhaayen jhaaki Hindustaan ki” and “De di hamen aazaadi bina khadg bina bhaal”.
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I have not posted a song composed by Ganesh in this blog for quite some time. The songs composed by Ganesh, though of high quality are very difficult to find. Even then, I have managed to find and post almost 25 % of all the Ganesh songs that he composed. And that makes this blog perhaps the best place to look for songs composed by Ganesh. And I did notice that a search string “Pyarelal’s brother Ganesh” was used by someone to arrive at this blog.
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Tum bin sajan barse nayan
Posted on: January 20, 2010
I have heard about the movie “Gaban” (1966), mainly because of the song “ehsaan mere dil pe tumhaaraa hai doston”, which has gone on to become an iconic song, though this song is almost a non event in the movie itself.
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Teri nazar mein main rahoon
Posted on: January 19, 2010
Here is a song from an obscure B grade movie. But as I always say, there is nothing B grade about the song.
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Dareeche shaq dareeche shaq
Posted on: January 11, 2010
I had never heard about this movie called “Ek Thi Reeta” (1971). This obscure movie had Vinod Mehra and Tanuja in lead roles.
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