Posts Tagged ‘Ravi’
Ye hawaa ye nadi ka kinaaraa
Posted on: February 3, 2011
The lyrics of this song is provided by Atif M, a new visitor of this blog and a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie songs
Prima facie, this duet song has similar initial words as the “Dilli Ka Thug” (1958) song (ye raaten ye mausam nadi ka kinaara ), but the two songs are entirely different songs even though they share the same lyricist, music director and the female singer.
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Ye mehfil sitaaron ki
Posted on: January 19, 2011
“Arab Ka Saudaagar” (1956) , by now a forgotten movie had Pradeep Kumar,Smriti Biswas,Shashikala,Sundar ,S D Narang etc in it, with S D Narang being the director of this movie as well.
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“Grihasthhi” (1963) was a family drama in which Ashok Kumar and Nirupa Roy (the standard couple of those days) play the parents of no less than seven daughters ! So naturally, much of the movie revolves around the efforts of the parents to get their daughters married off.
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Mera dil hai pyaar ka aashiyaan
Posted on: December 17, 2010
I am a big fan of Ravi as a music director who was active in music direction throughout the golden era of hindi movie music and even beyond it.
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One of my major sources of discovering “new” songs is the farmaishes that I get from my readers. These farmaishes have enabled me to enrich my knowledge of old movie songs considerably and that has enabled me to share those gems with my readers.
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“Ek Mahal Ho Sapnon Ka” (1975) is a movie where Dharmendra and Sharmila Tagore were paired together. This movie had some superb songs in it.
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Dharmendra and Sharmila Tagore, who share the same birthday (8th December) worked together opposite each other in several movies. One of these movies was “Ek Mahal Ho Sapnon Ka” (1975). This movie apparently did not do well at the box office. But what songs this movie had !
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I am a big fan of Ravi. He is perhaps the only music director who was around when the golden era of Hindi movie music began to the time this era was finally gone for ever. His career began as a chorus singer in late 1940s,then he became assistant to Hemant Kumar (he was his assistant in “Naagin” (1954)) and then he became an independent music director with “Vachan” (1955). From then on till 1980s, he composed songs, many of which became so popular that they ended up becoming iconic songs. I in fact describe Ravi as a composer of iconic songs.
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