Posts Tagged ‘Rafi’
When one listens to old song, one needs to have some appreciation of history, otherwise one tends to judge old songs by present day standards and thus he/ she may do grave injustice to old songs while making hasty judgements about them.
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This is a “bus” song where Dev Anand is the bus driver and Sadhana is the only passenger. The bus goes in a deserted place and very conveniently conks off.
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Subhaan Allah Haseen Chehra
Posted on: February 1, 2009
There are Shammi Kapoor fans who give their farmaishes to post songs where Shammi Kapoor is dressed like a female.
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Chaalke teri aankhon se
Posted on: February 1, 2009
Last month, I had been posting the innumerable songs of “Aarzoo” alphabetically. I had posted all the songs beginning from the letters A and B and now I am on to the letter C.
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Tujhe pyaar karte hain
Posted on: January 31, 2009
The only song from “April Fool” that I was aware of was the title song “April fool banaya to unko gussa aaya”. It was only after Raja’s farmaishes that I realised that there were other songs in this movie as well. 😉
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Ab kya misaal doon main
Posted on: January 30, 2009
In this fourth song of “Aarti” that I am posting in this blog, The two lead actors have become familiar with each other and they can take the liberty of opening their hearts to each other.
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I have talked about Rafi singing brilliant songs for Shammi Kapoor. This led to many imitators, who would make Shammi Kapoor movies by signing up Shammi Kapoor clones. Thus we had actors like Joy Mukherjee, Vishwajeet etc who had reasonably successful careeres playing Shammi Kapoor type roles.
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In my series of posts on the songs of “Aarti” (1962), here is the third song in the series.
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Baar baar tohe kyaa samjhaaye
Posted on: January 28, 2009
“Aarti” (1962) had some wonderful songs, and I am posting these songs now a days. This second song begins somewhat similarly to the other song. In the first song “Kahbhi to milegi”, Meena Kumari listens to a song on Radio, and then sings that song.
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Mili khaaq mein muhabbat
Posted on: January 28, 2009
It is difficult to believe it now, but both Guru Dutt and Meena Kumari actually used to play happy roles when they began their acting careers. It was sometime in late 1950s that both began to act in sad roles and they both got typecast into such roles so much that their past roles were soon forgotten.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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