Posts Tagged ‘Rafi’
Aaja aaja main hoon pyaar tera
Posted on: January 14, 2009
When R D Burman was given the job of music direction in a Shammi Kapoor movie called “Teesri Manzil”, many eye brows were raised, including Shammi Kapoor’s, but once the songs were recorded and picturised, there was no doubt in anyone’s mind that a great star was born among music directors, one who would rewrite music direction in Bollywood movies for the next decade or so.
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Dil mein kya hai
Posted on: January 14, 2009
Jeetendra, who can be said to have taken over from Shammi Kapoor when it came to roles that called for vigorous dancing, was nicknamed Jumping Jack. I have no idea which movie earned him that sobriquet. My suspicion is that it was the movie “Farz”. And just how vigoorously could he dance ? I think this song from “Jigri Dost” gives us some idea.
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O mere shaahe khubaan
Posted on: January 13, 2009
This Rafi song is so reminiscent of the Rafi-Shammi Songs of 1960s. And for long, I actually thought so.
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When I was about to post this song, I came to know that this song was already posted. When I double checked, I came to know that the “tumse accha kaun hai” song that I had posted was from “Jaanwar”, where this “tumse accha kaun hai” song is from, well “Tumse accha kaun hai”.
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If you are an antakshari aspirant and need to come up with songs beginning from “A”, look no futher than “Aarzoo”. It has a song that goes “Ae nargise mastana”. If this song is already used up ( or posted in case of this blog) then here is another “ae phoolon ki raani bahaaron ki malika”.
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Rafi has sung songs of many genres. When it came to drunkard songs, he began to sing such songs in 1960s. Most of these drunk songs tended to be sung for Raj Kumar,but he sang such songs for other actors too.
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Shammi Kapoor helped launch the careers of many heroines, because he was one hero who was not averse to acting opposite raw youngsters. In fact, actresses like Saira Bano and Sharmila Tagore actually made their debuts opposite Shammi Kapoor and that helped their career take off.
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Aawaz deke hamen tum bulaao
Posted on: January 9, 2009
By now I have lost count of Rafi songs sung for Shammi Kapoor. Almost all these songs were popular then, are popular now and will remain popular in future ( to paraphrase a Rafi song).
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Main gaaun tum so jaao
Posted on: January 8, 2009
The movie “Brahmachari” (1968 ) is very well known for its music. Two of its fast dance numbers- “dil ke jharokhen me” and “aj kal tere mere pyaar ke charche” in fact, have gone on to become the stuff of legends.
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Ae nargise mastaana
Posted on: January 8, 2009
Many of the big heroes of 1950s and 1960s owe a lot of their success to Rafi. Many movies of those days succeeded mainly because of the songs, and Rafi was the male singer in these songs.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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