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Posts Tagged ‘Raj Kapoor

Gali gali Seeta roye aaj mere desh mein

Posted by: squarecutatul on: November 10, 2009

“Chhalia” (1959) had many songs which were sung by Lata (for Nutan) and Mukesh (for Raj Kapoor). But the final song of this movie was sung by Rafi and it was picturised on Raj Kapoor.

Meri jaan kuchh bhi kijiye

Posted by: squarecutatul on: November 9, 2009

I have posted three songs from “Chhaliya” (1959) in the past. I decided that I should watch the movie. When I watched it, I found that this movie has a few songs that I never knew about.

Duniya banaane waale kyaa tere man mein samaayi

Posted by: squarecutatul on: November 8, 2009

“Teesri Kasam” (1966) was a labour of love created by Shailendra. It had some lovely songs in it which were penned by Shailendra himself.

Lahraaye jiyaa balkhaaye jiyaa

Posted by: squarecutatul on: October 24, 2009

I thought that I had posted songs from “Sharada” in the past. It turns out that I was confusing “Sharada” with “Sadhana”. Yes, those days we had movies with names like “Sharada”, “Sadhana”, “Kalpana” etc which were also the names of some well known actresses. Incidentally, the actress with the same name was nowhere to [...]

Kyun mere dil mein dard basaaya jawaab do

Posted by: squarecutatul on: October 17, 2009

I have posted half a dozen songs from “Baawre Nain” (1950) already and there are more to come.

Mujhe sach sach bataa do

Posted by: squarecutatul on: October 6, 2009

When “Neki aur Badi” (1949), the first movie of Roshan as a music director flopped, the sensitive music director was so disappointed that he reportedly wanted to commit suicide. Kidar Sharma, who gave him his first break, gave him his second break too, in “Baawre Nain” (1950). The songs of this movie became popular and [...]

Mere dil ki dhadkan kyaa bole

Posted by: squarecutatul on: October 2, 2009

Mukesh is traditionally regarded as the voice of Raj Kapoor, but that was not always the case. In his earlier movies, it was Rafi who often sang for Raj Kapoor.And we all recall that Manna Dey had famously sung for Raj Kapoor in “Chori Chori”.

Mast nazar dekh idhar ham hain wahi dilwaale

Posted by: squarecutatul on: September 29, 2009

“Ek Dil Sau Afsaane” (1963) was a movie starring Raj Kapoor and Waheeda Rehman. It had the usual musical team of Raj Kapoor.

Bikhra ke zulfein chaman me na jaanaa

Posted by: squarecutatul on: September 27, 2009

One tends to associate Raj Kapoor’s movies of 1950s and 1960s with Shankar Jaikishan’s music, but there are quite a few Raj Kapoor movies even in those days which had music by other music directors.

Jabse balam ghar aaye jiyaraa machal machal jaaye

Posted by: squarecutatul on: September 20, 2009

In late 1940s and early 1950s, actors were shown seated at the piano and singing a song. Now singing a song and playing a piano simultaneously is a superhuman job, but Bollywood actors would be shown doing that routinely.


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