Posts Tagged ‘Ravi’
Bedardi mere sainyya
Posted on: March 9, 2012
The mention of the title “Chaudhvin Ka chaand” (1960) is enough for one to recall the title song of this movie which I was aware of for as long as I can remember. That is how popular this song was. Let me hasten to add that I was not born when this movie and its songs were released, but I recall hearing this song in late 1960s. Other songs of this movie were also popular , but unlike the above mentioned song, they did not contain the title, so I was not aware that they also belonged to the same movie.
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He rom rom mein basne waale raam
Posted on: March 9, 2012
Music of “Neelkamal” (1968) has got to be one of the greatest music ever created for a Hindi movie. So much so that our own Raja began to imagine that the movie must be equally great. He waited three decades to watch the movie, but was extremely disappointed when he finally got to watch the movie.
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Ravi made his debut as a music director in 1955 and he composed music for over 110 Hindi movies during his long and successful career. Assuming that there were 8 songs on an average in each of his movies, he has composed some 900 sings in his Hindi movie career as a music director.
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Waqt se din aur raat
Posted on: March 9, 2012
“Waqt” (1965) was a movie that like most B R Chopra movies rewrote the rules of the game. This movie was a multistarrer movie at a time when this term was not even coined. This term as well as the concept would be made use of in Hindi movies ten years later in “Sholay” (1975) and other movies.
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Ravi, the creator of iconic songs (which is my favourite way of describing him) began his career as an independent music director in 1955, when “Vachan” (1955) and “Albeli”(1955) were released.
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This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Ravi Shanker Sharma departed from the mortal world last evening (7th March, 2012). Better known as simply Ravi, to the masses and the audiences of Hindi films, Ravi was 86 years, having just celebrated that milestone 5 days ago.
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Jeene ka agar andaaz aaye
Posted on: March 8, 2012
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Ravi’s debut film was Vachan (1955) but I first came to know about him through the songs of Chaudhvin Ka Chaand) (1960). He was music director for many successful films like Gumrah (1963), Waqt (1965), Khandaan (1965) Do Badan (1965), Kaajal(1965), Phool Aur Patthar (1966), Aankhen (1968) to quote a few. He was one of the popular music directors of Hindi films produced in the South. He wrote the popular song ‘cat mane billi’ for Dilli Ka Thug (1958). From 70s onwards, his musical assignments started declining and by later part of 80s, he was almost retired from the Hindi film industry. With his demise, we have lost one more veteran music director of the golden era of Hindi filmsongs.
May his soul rest in peace.
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Gunaahon ka diyaa thha haq
Posted on: March 5, 2012
“Ye Raaste Hain Pyaar Ke” (1963) was based on a real life story, but the Indian censors, movie makers as well as the Indian audience were not matured enough to deal with the subjet. As a result, the topic got diluted, trivialised and sensdanalised to such an extent that the end product was no longer a faithful representation of the case that this movie was based on. In any case, the movie makers had their disclaimer ready (just in case) that their story bore no resemblence to any persons or incidents.
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“Ye Raaste Hain Pyaar Ke” (1963) was based on a true incident,namely the case of K M Nanawati, though the makers of this movie issued an disclaimer that all people and incidents depicted in the movie were fictional, which fooled nobody.
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Koi mujhse poochhe ke tum
Posted on: March 3, 2012
Today (3rd March) is the 86th birhday of Ravi. On this occasion, we in this blog wish him a very happy birthday and wish him a long and healthy life.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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