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(Anand Bakshi) Aradhana (1969)

This is the movie that made Rajesh Khanna a super star. This is the movie that showed how Sharmila could be a serious actress where she effortlessly moves through stages as a charming lady in love to a widow to an unwed mother to a person who can kill to protect herself and her child and finally to an adoring mother. This is the movie that showed the serious side of Shakti Samanta (see his attached picture below) who hitherto was only known to make entertainers or crime dramas. This is the movie that made Kishore Kumar as a force to be reckoned with as a playback singer when the whole nation swayed away under their feet by the song "Roop Tera Mastaana".

Incidentally it was Samanta who introduced Tagore to the Hindi audience in his 1964 film “Kashmir Ki Kali”. Later she also starred in his 1966 film “Sawan Ki Ghata”.

This movie was loosely based on the 1946 English film "To Each His Own". Olivia de Havilland won an Oscar as the Best Actress for her performance. Incidentally Sharmila grabbed her first Filmfare Award for the same role in Hindi as the Best Actress. "Aradhana" also won the Best Picture Award for the producer and director Samanta and for Kishoreda the Best Singer Award for "Roop Tera Mastaana".

RD, who became an independent music director in 1961 with Mahmood’s “Chhote Nawab” and had been successful with many films to his credit including the unforgettable 1966 “Teesri Manzil”, was the assistant music director to this film as the senior Burmanda was ailing. It is widely rumored that RD was instrumental in replacing the singer for some songs originally were intended for Rafi Saab with Kishoreda. Some of the songs were apparently composed by RD. Irrespective of who composed what, the movie definitely had some memorable songs that leave an indelible impression on even a discriminating listener.

Amit Kumar, a fine singer himself and the son of late Kishoreda, tells an interesting story about the origins of the song “Roop Tera Mastaana”. Amit was with his father when he was at the rehearsals for this song. The rehearsals were at senior Burman’s residence. When the father and son arrived at SD’s residence, Shakti and RD were already present there. They were not quite happy with Burmanda’s initial composition of the song “Roop Tera Mastaana”. But SD was insistent on keeping the tune he created. RD, who was a close friend of Kishoreda, requested him to interfere and come up with an amicable solution. At this juncture Kishoreda remembered one of SD’s old Bengali songs that SD sang in 1940s. The song was “Ektu Pode Shashurbadi”. Kishoreda suggested to SD to use the tune of that song with some changes to fit the mood and times. Sachinda immediately agreed and created the tune for “Roop Tera Mastaana” based on his old Bengali song. The song became an overnight sensation and was responsible in catapulting career of many folks who were involved with it. I failed to acquire the original Burmanda’s Bengali song, but in one of the posts I have included Amit’s version of “Roop Tera” in which near the end of the song he sings a verse from the Bengali song.

Here is some trivia. For the song “Meri Sapnon Ki Raani”, Samanta could not get both Tagore and Khanna available for shooting at the same time. Only Khanna’s portion was shot in Darjeeling. Later Sharmila’s portion was shot in the studio in Mumbai. Both footages were merged for the final movie.

Here is more trivia. In the 2005 film “Parineeta”, Saif Ali Khan, son of Sharmila, rode the same train his mother did in “Aradhana”.

I am uploading the songs from the film, several specials, a few version songs, and many instrumentals in eight back-to-back posts. The first two posts contain all songs from the film. The third post contains some specials and a few version songs. The fourth post contains more version songs. The fifth post contains various instrumentals, all from different CDs. The last three posts contain instrumentals, all from various video resources. In particular, the sixth post contains a few instrumentals of the song “Kora Kaaghaz”. The next post contains instrumentals of the song “Mere Sapnon Ki Raani”. Finally, the last post contains instrumentals of the song “Roop Tera Mastaana”.

Now, for the first set of songs of this fine film starting in the next post…

This post has been edited by swarapriya: Aug 31 2015, 08:59 PM

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Aradhana (1969) - Songs

Here are the songs in the fist post...

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Aradhana (1969) - More Songs

Here are the rest of the songs from this fine musical...

This post has been edited by swarapriya: Aug 30 2015, 06:35 PM

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Aradhana (1969) - Specials

Here are some specials related to the songs from this popular film...

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Aradhana (1969) - Version Songs

The following are a few version songs of some popular songs from the film...

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Aradhana (1969) - CD Instrumentals

The following instrumentals of some popular songs from the film are all from various CD colletions...

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Aradhana (1969) - Instrumentals of "Kora Kaaghaz"

Here are a few instrumentals of the song "Kora Kaaghaz" from the film...

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Aradhana (1969) - Instrumentals of "Mere Sapnon"

The following are some of the instrumentals of the popular song "Mere Sapnon Ki" from the film...

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Aradhana (1969) - Instrumentals of "Roop Tera"

Here are a few instrumentals of the sizzling scorcher of a song "Roop Tera"...

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(Hasrat Jaipuri) Dil Apna Aur Preet Parai (1960)

Songs from this film were recently uploaded in this very thread. They are available at the following location...

http://www.hamaraforums.com/index.php?show...658&st=1323

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(Majrooh) Opera House (1961)

The only thing worth mentioning about this film is its music by Chitraguptji. There are six songs in the film. All are sung by Lata; three solos and three duets. All duets and the solo, “Balma”, are appealing. The song of the album is the duet by Lata and Mukesh, “Dekho Mausam”. Here are these songs and a few music clips from this film…

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(Rajinder Krishan) Khota Paisa (1958)

M. Sadiq besides producing and directing this film also wrote its story and screenplay. He was big on Shyama and Johnny Walker. Both of them appeared in several of his films together or by themselves. This was his second film with Walker as the hero. The other was the 1956 film “Chhoo Mantar”. The film was supposed to be a comedy but there was not much substance to the proceedings. But the music of Madan Mohanji, who almost sounds like O.P. Nayyar here, was the highlight of the film. With Naayarish songs, he had Asha sing most of the female songs. Listen to the song “Adaayein”. An impeccable imprint of OP style of music.

This was the fifth film Madan Mohan Saab and Rajinder Krishan worked together in 1958. The other four were, “Adalat”, “Chandan”, “Jailor”, and “Khazanchi”.

There is a fine qawwali in the film, “Dil Haseenon Se”. I am uploading a regular version and an extended version of the song at a lower bit rate. The longer version has some static between 3:20 and 4:20.

Here are these songs and others from this film…

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(Shailendra) Honeymoon (1960)

Here is a fine album from Salilda with Mukesh’s song “Mere Khwaabon Mein” taking the top honors…

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(Anand Bakshi) Do Bhai (1969)

This movie released in 1969, the same year of blockbusters “Aradhana” and “Do Raaste”, was lost in the “mastaana” storm of “Aradhana” and the family drama of “Do Raaste”. But I think it deserved better. At least it has some elements of a good story and excellent acting by Dadamoni. The songs were about average and that did not help the film. The movie begins with Rafi Saab’s song “Iss Duniya” as the titles roll and ends with the same song. In between also it appears once more. The verbiage for these three parts is slightly different. I am uploading all three of these and rest of the songs below…

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(Hasrat Jaipuri) Ek Phool Char Kante (1960)

Songs from this film were recently uploaded in this very thread. They are available starting at the following location...

http://www.hamaraforums.com/index.php?show...658&st=1333