Posts Tagged ‘Rafi’
Chaand ki sundar nagri mein
Posted on: July 10, 2009
“Dholak” (1951) was an amazing musical blockbuster and I am realising this fact only just now. An interesting fact about this musical blockbuster is that the songs of this movie were sung by not one or two established singers, but by several singers. The variety that they brought to the songs of this movie was just wonderful.
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“Ek Shrimaan Ek Shrimati” (1969) is not a movie about which I had any knowledge. same was true about its songs as well.
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Bollywood movies are supposed to be Hindi movies and their censor certificate mentions them as such. If one looks at the censor certificates of movies, one finds that a few movie are certified not as Hindi but as Urdu, For instance Nassir Hussain blockbuster “ham Kisi se ka nahin” is described as an Urdu movie by its censor certificate.
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I have mentioned in the past that Ganesh was an outstanding music director who unfortunately did not get his due from the Bollywood industry that he so richly deserved.
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Suno suno ek nayi kahaani
Posted on: July 6, 2009
There are some songs which can be categorised as “story” songs. Here the singer tells a story in song form. In fact, telling story in song form is an old traditional art in India and Bollywood movies are definitely inspired from that tradition when coming up with such songs.
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Songs have the ability of change the mood of the listeners. There are songs that are uplifting, there are songs that are soothing, there are songs that makes one feel romantic.
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This is a song one will love listening to. The picturisation, I think is quite eye catching. The picturisation shows two damsels in typically bright dresses which are supposedly the dresses worn in villages while going to the local river to fetch water and exchange gossip.
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Ae babu ye hai zamaana tera
Posted on: July 3, 2009
In 1940s and 50s, Bollywood music drew mainly from folk music of India as well as from Hindustani classical music.
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Here is a very old song from an obscure movie called “Actress” (1948). This is a stage song. It is sung by Rafi and it is picturised on Prem Adeeb.
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Haay re haay neend nahin aaye
Posted on: July 2, 2009
This song was one of the most popular songs with one and all during its day. And as happened with me quite often those days, I was not aware about the details of this song. I could identify the voice of Rafi and Lata but that was all. In fact I did not know those days that a song had a lyricist and a music director too. I thought that the singer did everything himself/ herself. And of course I had no idea which movie it was from.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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