Posts Tagged ‘Ravi’
Ye khaamoshiyaan ye tanhaayiyaan
Posted on: July 22, 2010
Here is a song whose farmaish was given by Raja more than a year back. And as often happens with me, I may have listened to this song in passing in the past, but it is only now that I have seriously listened to this song.
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Zindagi mein pyaar karnaa seekh le
Posted on: July 18, 2010
Here is a party song from “Phool Aur Patthar” (1966). I became aware of this song only just now, and that too thanks to the farmaish of this song by Dr. Mohan Doshi.
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“Hamraaz” (1968) was a suspense movie though one would not realise that from the songs. The movie had Sunil Dutt and Vimmi in lead roles, with Raj Kumar and others for company.
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Chal mere ghode tik tik tik
Posted on: June 26, 2010
(This song review is by Greta (Memsaab) who recently reviewed this movie in her blog.)
I had no idea when I first saw and heard this enchanting song a week ago that it is an integral part of Indian childhood. In the wake of my movie review, many people commented that they knew and loved the song but hadn’t known that it was a film song. Not only is the music beautiful (I’m still singing the refrain over and over), but the picturization of it is sublime. I had to rewind and watch the song two or three times before I could move on to the rest of the film.
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I have posted a couple of songs from “Door Ki Aawaaz” (1964) in the past. The evergreen “ham bhi agar bachhe hote” is one of these songs that has been posted earlier.
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Aate hi jawaani ka mausam
Posted on: May 6, 2010
Ravi as a music director was a favourite of movie makers making movies on “muslim social” theme. There are several well known and not so well known movies of this genre in which Ravi gave music.
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Wo din kahaan gaye mere
Posted on: May 5, 2010
“Vachan” (1955) was the first movie of Ravi as an independent music director, and this movie saw Ravi’s career getting launched in a grand way. In this movie, Ravi composed an iconic song viz “Chandaa mama door ke”.
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Uff ye jawaani ye adaa
Posted on: May 1, 2010
I had never heard of this movie called “Mehmaan” (1974) and I am sure most normal fans too may not have heard of this movie.
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Ae jaane chaman tera gora badan
Posted on: April 25, 2010
It is not uncommon for me to enjoy songs whose details are not known to me and most other people. These well known songs are often from movies that few people know about.
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Music director Ravi (full name Ravishankar Sharma) does not occupy as much mindshare in public mind as many other music directors of the golden era of Bollywood movie music do . Many younger music lovers in fact ask “Ravi who ?” when his name crops up in discussions.
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