Posts Tagged ‘Raja Mehdi Ali Khan’
Aji preet ka naataa toot gayaa
Posted on: December 11, 2009
I have posted several songs from “Do Bhai” (1947). It is this movie where Geeta Ray (as Geeta Dutt was then known) first came to limelight with her “mera sundar sapna beet gayaa”. I have since come across other Geeta Dutt songs from this movie which I liked even more.
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Mere piyaa to base pardes re
Posted on: December 4, 2009
In 1944 Naushad had introduced folk music based tunes to bollywood movies with “Rattan” (1944). One day when S D Burman went to his kitchen, he found his cook singing a song from Rattan (“jab tumhi chale pardes”) with great relish-“jhoom jhoom ke”.
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Bollywood movie songs of 1940s are of considerable importance and interest, because the singing legends of later decades were taking their first tentative steps in their singing careers at that time. For instance, Rafi was just two movies old as a playback singer when 1947 began. In 1947, he sang in “Do Bhai” and “Jugnu”. The “Jugnu” song-“Yahaan badla wafaa ka bewafaayi ke siwaa kyaa hai” proved to be the first major hit of his singing career.
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All these days, I was under the impression that I had already posted this song. But when I checked up, I realised that this song was yet to be posted.
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Chitragupta is known as a music director, but just like a few other fellow music directors, he too had come to Bombay hoping to make it big as a singer, rather than as a music director. He became the assistant of S N Tripathi and then soon landed his first movie as an independent music director in 1946.
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Some two years back, I had collected a list of songs picturised on Railways and I thought that I had covered almost all the songs that were there on this topic. By now, I have discovered several more Rail songs.
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“Aapki Parchhaayian” (1964), like “Anpadh” (1962) was one movie that enhanced Madan Mohan’s repulation as being the ghazal king of Bollywood music world. In both these movies Raja Mehdi Ali Khan was the lyricist who penned some unforgettable songs.
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Dil hai aapkaa huzoor
Posted on: October 1, 2009
“Jaali Note” (1960) was a movie starring Dev Anand and Madhubala. The movie unfortunately flopped and that is the reason why this movie is not all that well known.
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Hamen un raahon par chalna hai
Posted on: September 28, 2009
The movie “Masoom” (1960) is known for the immortal song “Naani teri morni ko mor le gaye”.
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“Do Bhai” (1947) is a movie that was a hit movie of its time. Of course the lead actors of this movie are not all that well known today. Name of Kamini Kaushal is still familiar, but few people may have any idea about Ulhas and Rajan, who are credited as the leading actors of this movie.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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