Posts Tagged ‘Ravi’
“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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I regard Ravi as the creator of iconic songs. Whatever the occasion, one can have a few iconic songs from Ravi for the occasion. Ravi indeed has a few iconic Deewali songs under his belt, as can be expected.
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Sainyya chhod de bainyya
Posted on: November 1, 2010
In Hindi movies, we have teasing songs that are typically sung by male actors. I just realised that if there is a teaser, then there has to a a teased as well. and there are songs sung by teased as well. the teased lady would typically sing a song with words like “chhodo meri kalaayi”, “koi dekh legaa” etc etc.
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Ye samaa ye rut ye nazaare
Posted on: October 25, 2010
“Do Kaliyaan” (1968) is one of those movies that I have actually watched (albeit on TV) and the only thing I recall about this movie is that Baby Sonia (now known as Nitu Singh) had played a double role in this movie (and that is why this title called “Do Kaliyaan” viz “two buds”).
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“Waqt” (1965) was a path breaking movie in more ways than one. For one, it was a multistarrer movie, one decade before this term came into circulation. Secondly, it was the movie that set the rules for lost and found movies which became the norm one decade later. In brief, “Waqt” (1965) inspired movie makers like G P Sippy (Sholay, Shaan) as well as Manmohan Desai (Amar Akbar Anthony).
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Hindi movie songs are reputed to be sung by the hero and heroine while running around trees. But what happens when the lady has injured herself and is unable to even walk, let alone run ? Does the hero abandon her and runs around trees with some other lady ? Not if the hero is Sunil Dutt. Sunil Dutt is one hero who would take care of his ladies in their moments of need.
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Ham to muhabbat karegaa
Posted on: October 20, 2010
“Dilli Ka Thug” (1958) was the first movie where Kishore Kumar worked with Ravi and their maiden collaboration gave us some memorable songs that are remembered even to this day.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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