Posts Tagged ‘Rafi’
“Dosti” (1964) was a simple movie with a simple uncomplicated message, and the message went home. This small budget movie with no stars (which was the first movie of Rajshree productions) went on to become a hit movie.
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Koyi jab raah na paaye
Posted on: January 8, 2010
I have posted as many as four songs from “Dosti” (1964). There were six songs in this movie as far as I remember. Who knows, there may have been more songs in it that I am not aware or which may have been excluded from the movie.
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Here is a song which sounds like it belongs to a Shammi Kapoor movie. And indeed it has almost all the ingredients of a Shammi Kapoor movie except the great man himself. The movie is “Ek Musaafir Ek Haseena” (1962) which appeared on the scene almost in the same era as “Junglee”. This movie has Joy Mukherji and Sadhana in lead roles.
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Tere husn ki kyaa taareef karoon
Posted on: January 5, 2010
I am aware of this song, and I am aware of the movie “Leader” (1964) as well, but I did not know till yesterday that this song was from “Leader” (1964).
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Muhabbat choome jinke haath
Posted on: January 5, 2010
I have posted a few songs from “Aan” (1952), but I was not aware about the existence of this song. This song is sung by Rafi and Shamshad Begam.
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Dil ki tamanna thhi masti mein
Posted on: December 26, 2009
Believe it or not, there was a movie called “Gyaarah hazaar ladkiyaan” (eleven thousand girls). This 1962 movie had Bharat Bhushan and Mala Sinha in lead roles.
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In the second half of 1950s, we had movie titles beginning with Miss, Mr and so on. thus we had movies like Miss India, Miss India, Mr X, Mr and Mrs 55 etc.
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Pata note karo hamaaraa
Posted on: December 11, 2009
I have mentioned it in the past that Bollywood movie music was enriched not only by legendary music directors, but also by lesser known names who often got to work in forgettable C grade movies.
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Here is yet another song that I heard for the first time only just now. And I loved the song immediately.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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