Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs

Posts Tagged ‘Rafi


This article is written by Arunkumar Deshmukh, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a contributor to this blog. This article is meant to be posted in atulsongaday.me. If this article appears in other sites without the knowledge and consent of the web administrator of atulsongaday.me, then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.

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6416 Post No. : 19911

Today’s song is from a social film, Rangeela-1953.

The film was produced and directed by Master Bhagwan for his own banner Bhagwan Art Productions, Bombay.The cast included Bhagwan, Poornima,Vivek, badri prashad, Baburao pehalwan, heera Sawant, Madhav Kale, Kammo, Cuckoo, Indira and a host of Bhagwan’s regular artists. Unlike other films of Bhagwan, C.Ramchandra did not give music to this film as he was busy with the film Anarkali-1953. So, Jamal Sen was the Music Director. Though a gifted and talented musician, he was known to be an unlucky Music Director.
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This article is the 19900th song post in the blog. This article also marks the 600th duet of Rafi and Asha Bhonsle in the blog.

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6412 Post No. : 19900 Movie Count :

5187

It was 29 days ago (on 9 January 2026) that we had reached blog song post number 19800. That song post also happened to be 300th duets of Kishore Kumar and Asha Bhonsle. If 300 duets of a pair of singers is an enormous achievement then what will we say about twice that number of duets ? 600 duets !! That is a mind boggling mind numbing number of duets. This feat is achieved by Mohammad Rafi and Asha Bhonsle in the blog.
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6411 Post No. : 19893

“Hazaar Raaten”(1953) was produced and directed by Jayant Desai for Jayant Desai Productions, Bombay. The movie had Rehana, Bipin Gupta, Manhar Desai, Cuckkoo, Satyanarayan, Kuldeep Akhtar, Rewashankar, Gajendra Singh, Yunus, Shakuntala, Ameer Banu etc in it.
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This article is written by Peevesie’s mom, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a contributor to this blog. This article is meant to be posted in atulsongaday.me. If this article appears in other sites without the knowledge and consent of the web administrator of atulsongaday.me, then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.

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6409 Post No. : 19885

Hullo Atuldom

Shatranj (meaning Chess) is a 1969 released, spy thriller film co-produced and directed by S. S. Vasan (in his final directorial venture.) N.N. Sippy was the co-producer. It starred Rajendra Kumar and Waheeda Rehman in the lead, with Mehmood, Madan Puri, Shashikala, Helen, Achala Sachdev, Manmohan Krishna and Agha in pivotal roles.
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6406 Post No. : 19872

“Badnaam”(1952) was directed by D.D. Kashyap for Filmistaan Limited, Bombay. This “social” movie had Shyama, Balraj Sahni, Ulhas, Murad, Prabhu Dayal, Pappu, Narendra Kumar, Sheela, Jankidas, D.S. Panchotiya, Bhujbal Singh, Talwar, Shakeel, Mishra, Munna, Helen and others.
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This article is written by Arunkumar Deshmukh, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a contributor to this blog. This article is meant to be posted in atulsongaday.me. If this article appears in other sites without the knowledge and consent of the web administrator of atulsongaday.me, then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.

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6405 Post No. : 19868

Today’s song is from an imaginary film Sim Sim Marjina-1958. The film was produced by Mulkraj Bhakri. The music was originally by Hansraj Behl, but after composing just one song by Geeta Dutt, he had some dispute with the Producer and he left the film. Then A.R.Qureshi was brought in as the film’s Music Director and he composed 9 songs. The film’s cast included Shakeela, Mahipal, Heeralal, Maruti, Tiwari, Helen, Nazi, Sadiq, Roopmala and many others.
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6404 Post No. : 19866

“Kalpana”(1960) was produced by Ashok Kumar and Ganesh and directed by Rakhan for Ashok Pictures Private Limited, Bombay. This social movie had Ashok Kumar, Padmini, Ragini, S Nazir, Sunder, Balam, Pachhi, Achala Sachdev, Sarita Devi, Baby Farida, Rani Kumar, Harbans, Amrit, Khatana, Iftekhar, Brahm Bhardwaj, Keshav, Ibne Hasan, Shakil Nomani etc in it.
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This article is written by Nahm, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a contributor to this blog. This article is meant to be posted in atulsongaday.me. If this article appears in other sites without the knowledge and consent of the web administrator of atulsongaday.me, then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.

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6401 Post No. : 19857

As the nation is celebrating 77th Republic Day on 26th January, 2026, I have found yet another patriotic song by Mohammed Rafi sahab. I had zeroed in on another song, the sound quality was not so good. Suddenly this song came up on the feed, as a newly found song. I have checked; it is available on youtube for many years.

Another special thing is that it is a non-film song, written by Rajinder Krishan. Music directors name and the Album name is missing from the list of Rafi song as well as on the links available on youtube.
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This article is written by Arunkumar Deshmukh, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a contributor to this blog. This article is meant to be posted in atulsongaday.me. If this article appears in other sites without the knowledge and consent of the web administrator of atulsongaday.me, then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.

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6394 Post No. : 19834

Today ‘s song is a typical 1950’s Fun song from a Mythological film – Durga Pooja-1954.

The film was produced by Dhirubhai Desai and his son Sharad Desai for their family banner Sharad Productions, Bombay. The director of this film was Dhirubhai Desai. Music Director was a veteran of such films – S.N.Tripathi. He used 4 lyricists for the film’s 10 songs namely, Bharat Vyas (3 songs), G.S.Nepali (2), B.D.Mishra (3) and Saraswati Kumar ‘Deepak’ (2). The cast included Nirupa Roy, Trilok Kapoor, Shahu Modak, Kamal( wife of comedian actor Maruti), Yashodhara Katju, Ratnamala, S.N.Tripathi, Rajkumar Khatri, Indira Bansal, Yashwant Dave etc.
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This article is written by Nahm, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a contributor to this blog. This article is meant to be posted in atulsongaday.me. If this article appears in other sites without the knowledge and consent of the web administrator of atulsongaday.me, then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.

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6393 Post No. : 19832

ہر ایک بات پہ کہتے ہو تم کہ تو کیا ہے

تمہیں کہو کہ یہ انداز گفتگو کیا ہے

نہ شعلہ میں یہ کرشمہ نہ برق میں یہ ادا

کوئی بتاؤ کہ وہ شوخ تند خو کیا ہے

یہ رشک ہے کہ وہ ہوتا ہے ہم سخن تم سے

وگرنہ خوف بد آموزی عدو کیا ہے

چپک رہا ہے بدن پر لہو سے پیراہن

ہمارے جیب کو اب حاجت رفو کیا ہے

جلا ہے جسم جہاں دل بھی جل گیا ہوگا

کریدتے ہو جو اب راکھ جستجو کیا ہے

رگوں میں دوڑتے پھرنے کے ہم نہیں قائل

جب آنکھ ہی سے نہ ٹپکا تو پھر لہو کیا ہے

وہ چیز جس کے لیے ہم کو ہو بہشت عزیز

سوائے بادۂ گلفام مشک بو کیا ہے

پیوں شراب اگر خم بھی دیکھ لوں دو چار

یہ شیشہ و قدح و کوزہ و سبو کیا ہے

رہی نہ طاقت گفتار اور اگر ہو بھی

تو کس امید پہ کہیے کہ آرزو کیا ہے

ہوا ہے شہہ کا مصاحب پھرے ہے اتراتا

وگرنہ شہر میں غالبؔ کی آبرو کیا ہے

हर एक बात पे कहते हो तुम कि तू क्या है
तुम्हीं कहो कि ये अंदाज़-ए-गुफ़्तुगू क्या है

न शो’ले में ये करिश्मा न बर्क़ में ये अदा
कोई बताओ कि वो शोख़-ए-तुंद-ख़ू क्या है

ये रश्क है कि वो होता है हम-सुख़न तुम से
वगर्ना ख़ौफ़-ए-बद-आमोज़ी-ए-अदू क्या है

चिपक रहा है बदन पर लहू से पैराहन
हमारे जैब को अब हाजत-ए-रफ़ू क्या है

जला है जिस्म जहाँ दिल भी जल गया होगा
कुरेदते हो जो अब राख जुस्तुजू क्या है

रगों में दौड़ते फिरने के हम नहीं क़ाइल
जब आँख ही से न टपका तो फिर लहू क्या है

वो चीज़ जिस के लिए हम को हो बहिश्त अज़ीज़
सिवाए बादा-ए-गुलफ़ाम-ए-मुश्क-बू क्या है

पियूँ शराब अगर ख़ुम भी देख लूँ दो-चार
ये शीशा ओ क़दह ओ कूज़ा ओ सुबू क्या है

रही न ताक़त-ए-गुफ़्तार और अगर हो भी
तो किस उमीद पे कहिए कि आरज़ू क्या है

हुआ है शह का मुसाहिब फिरे है इतराता
वगर्ना शहर में ‘ग़ालिब’ की आबरू क्या है

No need to say here that the above ghazal is the kalam of Mirza Ghalib. His takhallus is his signature in the last Shair. Like the painters sign at the bottom of the canvas. Newer trend here is the thumb impression, biometric is the new signature. Going back in time.

The trigger for the above ghazal is here in the last stanza of this song:

aakaash se taare toot padey
aankh se tapki jo meri daastaan

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