Posts Tagged ‘Shankar Jaikishan’
Kya mil gaya haay kya kho gaya
Posted on: January 5, 2009
What a beautiful song from Sasuraal (1961) ! I had never heard this song before, and but for the farmaish of this song, I would have remained oblivious of this song.
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This Rafi song is one that I have been listening to from my childhood, and this is one of the Rafi songs that is hardwired into my brain. Of course, additional informations viz movie, music directors etc were not part of that information.
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Ham aa gaye phir dar kaahe kaa
Posted on: January 3, 2009
“pyaar hi pyaar” is a movie starring Dharmendra and Vyjyantimala and this movie has a couple of great romantic songs. But I was not aware that it has a great comedy song too.
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Jhoomta mausam mast maheena
Posted on: December 30, 2008
During the peak of his career, Shammi Kapoor songs were sung by Rafi and picturised on Kashmir, Shimla etc.
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Ye waada karo chaand ke saamne
Posted on: December 30, 2008
From the name, the movie “Raajhath” appears a historical/ mythological fare. The movie had Pradeep Kumar and Madhubala in lead roles.
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“Junglee” (1961) was in some ways the movie that launched Shammi Kapoor’s career and set the tone for the Shammi Kapoor movies with their set formula. The formula called for a debutant heroine pitted against Shammi Kapoor, Rafi singing some fantastic songs, Rajendranath as the sidekick, and the resultant movies would be lapped up by the public.
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Ruk jaa o jaane wali ruk jaa
Posted on: December 28, 2008
After quite some time, here is a Mukesh song from Kanhaiyya (1959). This song is a typical Raj Kapoor movie song. It means that the singer is Mukesh, Lyricist is Shailendra and Shankar Jaikishan are the music directors.
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O basanti pawan paagal
Posted on: December 28, 2008
This movie is “Jis Desh mein Ganga Bahti hai”, and it is regarded as an important movie of Raj Kapoor.
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Kashmir ki kali hoon main
Posted on: December 27, 2008
Till recently I thought that this song “Kashmir ki kali hoon main” was the title song of “Kashmir ki kali”. Only when I began to research this song that I realised my ignorance. It is indeed a Shammi Kapoor song, but from “Junglee” and its music was by Shankar Jaikishan (“Kashmir ki kali” had its music by O P Nayyar).
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I could call it a bathroom song, because the lady is actually taking bath in this song. But the technical problem is, she is taking bath not inside the bathroom, but in the open, and some people may say she is actually swimming. But more like she is frolicking in water to her heart’s content. So I have decided to call it a waterfall song instead.
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