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Mohammad Rafi was the Favorite Voice of Dharmendra

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  According to Dharmendra, it was Rafi Sahaab’s voice that gave a boost to his film career. Mohammad Rafi sang 104 songs for Dharmendra. The first song Rafi sang for Dharmendra was 'Jane Kya Dhoondti Rehti Hain Yeh Ankhen Mujhme' for the film 'Shola Aur Shabnam released in 1961. This was Dharmendra's second film. In his first film, no song was picturized on him. There were 2 songs that were picturized on Dharmendra in Shola Aur Shabnam, this was a duet with Lata Mangeshkar'Jeet Hi Lenge Baazi'.     These songs are popular even today.     Song of Shola Aur Shabnam 1961 Song of Shola Aur Shabnam 1961 The next song Rafi Saab sang for Dharmendra was a duet from the 1964 film 'Pooja Ke Phool', in the same year Rafi sang 4 songs for Dharmendra in Aap Ki Parchaiyan, recall the song ' Main Nigahen Tere'  Song of Aap Ki Parchaiyan 1964  Rafi Sahaab did have a typical style while singing for Dharmendra too so that one always identified the performer and th...

Kalyanji Bhai- The Musician behind the Immortal Been Tune of 'Nagin'

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  Kalyanji Bhai of the Kalyanji Anandji music duo started his career as a musician. He was very good at Harmonium, violin, guitar, and drums. He played these instruments under many music directors.  Kalyanji, who introduced  a new electronic instrument called the clavioline.  With this  instrument , he played the been for a snake sequence in the film Nag Panchami (1953), the music of which was scored by Chitragupt. People came to watch the film just to listen to this music .  Hemant Kumar heard this tune and decided to use this in the song " Man Dole Mera Tan Dole"  of Nagin(1954). The song and this tune became immortal.  He was soon the most sought-after musician in Bollywood.  Kalyanji then, with his brother Anandji, started an orchestral group called Kalyanji Virji and Party which organized musical shows in Mumbai and outside. This was the first attempt made for holding live musical shows in India. In 1957 Subhash Desai, the elder bro...

R D Burman-A Magical Maestro

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  His range varied from the catchy 'Aaja Aaja' from Teesri Manzil to the soulful thumri 'Hame Tumse Pyar Kitna' by Parveen Sultana in Kudrat. He also composed the mischievous number Ek Chatur Naar, Badi Hoshiyar from Padosan, and the melodious Tere Bina Zindagi Se koi Shikwa to Nahin from Aandhi A magical maestro, he could conjure up a serenading classical raga theme or a peppy Western romantic tune out of thin air.  He Revolutionised Hindi Film Music by introducing new  elements (jazz and rock styles) into Hindi film songs   For several decades, he produced iconic music in Hindi and Bengali for as many as 330 films. Most of the current generation of music directors have been influenced by him. He  was the master of experiments and changed the way one would look at music. His voice modulation brought in a new dimension to popular music. Burman brought in various innovations to the background music of Hindi and Bengali films. His unconventional way of generating ...

Anarkali was a Musical Milestone for C Ramchandra

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   C. Ramchandra's biggest success as a music composer was the 1953 movie  Anarkali , though he had already tasted success with    Shehnai  (1947), Sargam(1950), Samadhi(1950) and Albela(1951).  The film was a Musical Hit and went on to celebrate Golden Jubilee. It was the highest-grossing film of 1953 and again ranks 2nd in the top 25 Best Musical Films of all times according to IMDb. The Music direction of this film was given to t he composer Vasant Prakash, who was the younger brother of famous composer Khemchan Prakash.  He even composed a song “Aa jaane wafa aa” penned by Jan Nisar Akhtar and sung by Geeta Dutt. Basant Prakash had major health problems after having recorded this one song with Geeta Dutt. C. Ramchandra took over as the composer.  The film had a total of 11 songs, with 10 composed by C Ramchandra and 1 by Basant Prakash. This film was a musical hit. The first-ever 'Binaca Geetmala' Annual Program of 1953 - saw  "Ye Zi...