Posts Tagged ‘Rafi’
Ab wo karam karen ke sitam
Posted on: April 1, 2009
In 1950s and 1960s, there tended to be movies titled after important landmarks. For example, “Lal Quila” “Gateway of India” etc. These movies tended to go into oblivion soon after their release.
Read more on this topic…
Here is a song which I remember listening to in my younger days, though I never could find out those days which movie this song was from. That is how it was with loudspeaker songs those days. Unlike radio songs, they would not announce the name of the movie before playing such songs. 😉
Read more on this topic…
This song is a rather uncharacteristic song on many counts, when viewed in hindsight.
Read more on this topic…
Sach kahta hoon bahut haseen ho
Posted on: March 28, 2009
“Jaali Note” (1960), by now a forgotten movie had Dev Anand and Madhubala in lead roles. Moreover, it had music by O P Nayyar.
Read more on this topic…
Apni aadat hai sabko salaam karna
Posted on: March 27, 2009
This is a very special song in more ways than one.
Read more on this topic…
Hai kali kali ke lab par
Posted on: March 27, 2009
Talat Mehmood was trying his hands on acting in addition to playback singing in 1950s. His singing career suffered as a result. What is more, sometimes the music directors in movies where he acted would contemplate using the voice of some other singer for Talat Mehmood. That way, Talat Mehmood sometimes found himself in the same boat as Kishore Kumar.
Read more on this topic…
Here is a typical Rafi song sung in Shammi style, except that this song was picturised on Joy Mukherjee, and he was the closest to Shammi Kapoor in such roles.
Read more on this topic…
Adaa se jhoomte huye
Posted on: March 26, 2009
Chitragupta Srivastava, better known as Chitragupta, made his debut as a music director in 1946. He had to wait for 6 years to deliver his first hit song.
Read more on this topic…
Armaan thha hamen jinka
Posted on: March 25, 2009
I have posted a few songs from “Aulaad” (1968) already. This movie had some nice songs that were written by Majrooh Sultanpuri and composed by Chitragupta.
Read more on this topic…
Ye do deewaane mil ke
Posted on: March 24, 2009
Watching old movie songs can often turn out to be lessons in history. For instance, how many people in India know that Goa was not part of India till 1961 and that it was still a Portuguese territory till 1961 ?
Read more on this topic…
Recent comments