Muhammad Rafi — full throat, tuneful
He was reputed to be famous or moulding his voice to the actor’s personality he was singing for. Since he was considered the god of Hindi songs, it invited jealousy and certain lobbies’ succeeded in ousting him in... Muhammad Rafi — full throat, tuneful
The last we saw of the quartet together was in the 1968 movie ‘Sanghursh’. The movie was about thugs in Varanasi. The story was based on Jnanpith Award winner Mahasweta Devi. It starred Dilip Kumar... Muhammad Rafi — full throat, tuneful
Another song “Batain kar lo ji” is a lilting song on Punjabi folk from this movie. Another song on cheerful note is “Teri nazar ki chabi nei khola” based on the folk tune of “Govinda aala re” from the movie ‘Laal Nishan,...Muhammad Rafi — full throat, tuneful
The song is superbly enacted by Asha Sachdev also. Asha Sachdev is a noted Bollywood character actor of the 1970s. Though she acted in a few early films as a lead actress, including the hit spy film. ....Muhammad Rafi — full throat, tuneful
Even excellent songs were composed in Guru Dutt’s film ‘Bharosa’, 1963, with songs like “Aaj ki mulaqat bus itni”, where all the songs were sung by Muhammad Rafi. The song “Jaan-e-bahaar husn tera” ...Muhammad Rafi — full throat, tuneful
Another duet “Chupne wale samne aa” is worth listening to. The representative Muhammad Rafi songs in OP Nayyar’s compositions are “Ghareeb jaan ke”, Jawanina ye mast mast bin piye”, “Mere hamsafar raste,...Muhammad Rafi — full throat, tuneful
Two songs from ‘Raj Tilak’ (1958), one from ‘Karigar’ (1958), four songs from ‘Paigham’ (1959) and one from ‘Sarhad’ (1960) did not leave any mark also. However the duets from the movie ‘Nausherwan-e-Adil’ ...US researcher out to find Ghadar Party’s origin
A US-based research scholar, Johanna Ogden, is undertaking a self-funded research project to find the origin of the Ghadar Party in the US...... To Ranjit Singh’s opulent court and back
Aijazuddin introduces The Resourceful Fakirs - Three Muslim Brothers at the Sikh court of Lahore.PHOTO:FILE. ...Three Muslim Brothers at the Sikh Court
THE RESOURCEFUL FAKIRS: THREE MUSLIM BROTHERS AT THE SIKH COURT OF LAHORE, by Fakir Syed Aijazuddin (Three Rivers Publishers, New Delhi, 2014) . ...