Posts Tagged ‘Shankar Jaikishan’
Aawaz deke hamen tum bulaao
Posted on: January 9, 2009
By now I have lost count of Rafi songs sung for Shammi Kapoor. Almost all these songs were popular then, are popular now and will remain popular in future ( to paraphrase a Rafi song).
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Main gaaun tum so jaao
Posted on: January 8, 2009
The movie “Brahmachari” (1968 ) is very well known for its music. Two of its fast dance numbers- “dil ke jharokhen me” and “aj kal tere mere pyaar ke charche” in fact, have gone on to become the stuff of legends.
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Ae nargise mastaana
Posted on: January 8, 2009
Many of the big heroes of 1950s and 1960s owe a lot of their success to Rafi. Many movies of those days succeeded mainly because of the songs, and Rafi was the male singer in these songs.
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In earlier days, Bollywood movies had specialists doing specialised kind of work. Villains would commit the dark deeds, comedians would make people laugh, hero would do his herogiri etc.
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This movie “Brahmachari” reminds me so much of “Mr. India”, or rather, “Mr. India” should remind me of “Brahmachari” considering that “Brahmachari” was released two decades earlier.
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Main kahin kavi na ban jaaun
Posted on: January 5, 2009
Most Bollywood songs are general in nature where they use common noun, but there are occasions when Bollywood songs use proper noun too.
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Gori chalo na hans ki chaal
Posted on: January 5, 2009
Here is one song that I have listened to in the past , but not with much attention. This time, I gave it my proper attention, and discovered what a nice song it was.
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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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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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