Posts Tagged ‘Ravi’
Na ye zameen thi na aasmaan tha
Posted on: April 24, 2009
I am a big fan of Ravi, the underestimated music director of the golden era of Bollywood movie music. He was an extremely prolific music director who began his career in 1950s and worked upto 1990. And he has left us countless great songs, many of them timeless classics. In fact, most iconic songs of Bollywood have been his creations.
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sheeshe se pi ya paimaane se pi
Posted on: April 24, 2009
“Phool Aur Patthar” (1966) was the movie that gave Dharmendra his “He-Man” image, and made him the star that he was known as for much of his career, if I remember correctly.Or, am I confusing this movie with “Shola aur Shabnam” ?
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Meri gaadi udan khatola
Posted on: April 19, 2009
I had never heard about the songs of this movie called “Aurat” (1967), but now that I have heard a couple of songs from this movie, I cannot help but post them in this blog.
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Ye kaun hai jiske aane se
Posted on: April 19, 2009
Has anyone heard of a Bollywood movie called “Aurat” ? Well, I am aware of three movies by this name. One was a movie made by Mahboob Khan in 1940s. Later he remade it as “Mother India”. The second one was made in 1953. The third “Aurat ” was made in 1967.
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Tum apni saheli ko
Posted on: April 17, 2009
Prem Chopra was an actor who is “fondly” remembered for playing roles of a villainous smooth operator always lusting after the heroine.
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O neele parbaton ki dhaara
Posted on: April 13, 2009
“Aadmi aur Insaan” (1969) was a movie with Ravi’s music. This information is enough to conclude that the movie must be full of nice songs. And that is how it turns out to be.
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Chhod de patang meri chhod de
Posted on: April 11, 2009
Though it is the music director who gets most of the credit for a song, it is the assistant music director/ music arranger who does the actual legwork, and should get the real credit.
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Chale bhi aao kasam tumhen
Posted on: April 9, 2009
Music director Ravi, who made his debut as an independent music director in 1955, began to churn out nice music immediately. Here is a nice song from a 1957 movie called “Ek Saal”.
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Zindagi ittafaq hai
Posted on: April 8, 2009
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“Aadmi aur insaan” (1969) had Ravi’s music. When I looked at the list of songs that I have posted from this movie, I found that I had posted just one song, and that too a “lesser” known one. Knowing Ravi, he creates a bagful of hit songs in every movie where he is the music director, many of which have gone on to become iconic songs.
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Tumhaari nazar kyun khafaa ho gayi
Posted on: April 4, 2009
This song is from “Do Kaliyaan” though I was not aware of this fact when I used to listen to this popular song on loudspeakers during my younger days. Needless to say, I was not aware who were the actors on whom this song was picturised.
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