This post is inspired from Topi's latest blog post
My favorite song would definitely be a Mohd Rafi track, and it is "Tumne Mujhe dekha" from Teesri Manzil. Released in the year 1966 it is another masterpiece by Nasir Hussain, and directed by Vijay Anand starring Shammi Kapoor (the Lover boy of that era), Asha Parekh (the chirpy Girl as Topi likes to call her), Premnath, Prem Chopra (who was graduating to be a full time villian) and legendry actor KN Singh.
The film was a musical thriller, with awesome music by RD Burman and mind blowing lyrics by Majrooh Sultanpuri. This is one song to which I can listen to again and again, and infact during my drive to office this is the first song I listen to.The cinematography, lyrics, and expressions are too good.
Just wondering that without Mohd Rafi's amazing voice would shammi kapoor have had the same image in Indian Cinema ? With songs like "Chahe koi mujhe Jungli kahe" which gave Shammi Kapoor his identity as a careless lover boy of the 1960s.
My favorite stanza from the song:
कहीं दर्द के सेहरा में, रुकते चलते होते,
इन होटों की हसरत में, तपते जलते होते,
मेहेरबान हो गयी, जुल्फ की बदलियाँ,
जानेमन जानेजां .......
video on Youtube:
Thursday, October 29, 2009
Woh ek gaana....
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Bhai lajawaab!
I can't agree more about the Rafi-Shammi connection - it's very unimaginable to see most of Shammi's songs being sung by any other voice, or any other style!
And I didn't know you blogged - you never showed it off! Tumhara link daalte huye apni site vichch!
He he ... love the "Kitne Aadmi The" phrase :)
- Topi
Ye gaana itna badhiya hai har cheez main ...that I never focussed on the lyrics until you wrote them :) Bahot hi badhiya!
@Topi: haan kaafi achha gaana hai....
Dhanyawaad link ke liye! main bhi abhi daalta hoon.
I have anyways added u in the google reader
KN Singh did not feature in this movie :-), it was iftikhaar.
dinrat
@Dinrat: KN Singh was in Teesri Manzil
Iftekhaar was the Police inspector
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teesri_Manzil
http://www.chakpak.com/movie/teesri-manzil/cast/474
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061073/fullcredits#cast
@Shantanu
I really dont remember K N Singh playing any significant role in the movie, do you? Everyone reports him in the movie but without the details on the character he played. I suspect it could be one wrong source replicated to all other places as well. I just dont remember him in the movie, unless it was for very few shots.
@Dinrat: he did play a short negative role in the movie. I remember him because he is one of my favorite villains.....
@Shantanu, dont remember absolutely, it must have been a cameo as mentioned in http://apnieastindiacompany.blogspot.com/2009/03/favorite-cameos.html
BTW the post rocks! :-), the song is one of my favorites as well, and the whole movie is too good.
@Shantanu - some light
In “Teesri Manzil” he plays a drunkard who arouses hero Shammi Kapoor’s suspicions regarding the murder in which he has been implicated.
http://www.tribuneindia.com/2000/20000204/art-trib.htm
@Dinrat: Thanks! :)
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