Do You Know Any Pair Of Almost Identically Tuned Songs Of Rafi Saab?, I Now Know Not Eleven, But Twlve Pairs! Options

[venkat]

Friends,

It was only after I joined HF that I came to know this. There are at least twelve pairs of Rafi Saab's songs which are almost identical in tune.

PAIR-I:

1. "Ek Chameli Ki Mandwe Tale"--Film: Cha Cha Cha(1964)---MD:Iqbal Quereshi--Rafi and Asha

2. "Aaj Mausam Ki Masti Mein Gaaye Pawan"--Film:Banarasi Thug(1962)---MD:Iqbal Quereshi---Rafi and Lata


PAIR-II:

1. "Tu Hind Bane Ya na Musalmaan Banega, Insaan Ki Aulad"---Film:Dhool Ka Phool(1959)---MD:N.Datta---Rafi

2. "Kya Kya Na Sitam Tujh Pe Huve Mehlon Ki Raani"---Film:Mohini(1957)---MD:N.Datta---Rafi


Incidentally, within each of these Pairs, the MDs are the same!

Firends, please let me know if you know any other such almost identical pairs. Mind you, only almost identical pairs. Not similar pairs, of which there are plenty!

Venkat

P.S. Another seven or eight pairs have been discovered in the following posts!

This post has been edited by venkat: Sep 14 2010, 06:25 PM

[princeali]

Main Kal Phir Milungi (Lata & Rafi) - Dr. Vidya & Kisi Ki Mohabbat Mein (Asha & Rafi) - Kaise Kahoon

Both have the same exact tune, both are composed by S.D Burman.

[sri]

Main Kal Phir Milungi (Lata & Rafi) - Dr. Vidya & Kisi Ki Mohabbat Mein (Asha & Rafi) - Kaise Kahoon

Both have the same exact tune, both are composed by S.D Burman.

Good find - PA - they are indeed identical !! And thanks to Venkat for starting off this interesting search.

1964 was the period when SDBurman was laid up...he stopped taking up new films and and had difficulty in completing his films on hand. It is possible that faced with this situation, this idea may have occurred to someone - to use an old (and not so well known) tune fitted with new words - with the approval ( or not !! ) of the producer/director.


Sri

[sri]

Though not exactly complying with the title of this thread - I felt that this pair of twins are worthy of mention - for general interest

These two tunes from the film Gazal (1964) by Madan Mohan - are essentially from the same basic idea - and their lyrics are similar too (in fact, their last antaras have identical lyrics) but Madan Mohan has brought in so many variations into them ( and the Rafi one is a little faster also) that they are certainly not 'identical' and are actually two different songs. Perhaps they were two very closely related 'versions' of the tune for a song - and he may have liked both so much that he decided to use both rather than making a choice between them. The songs are :

Naghma_o_sher ki saugaat kise pesh karoon, Lata, Gazal 1964, Madan Mohan_Sahir

Ishq ki garmiye jazbaat kise pesh karoon, Rafi, Gazal 1964, Madan Mohan_Sahir


Sri

P.S. Sahir must have been in love with the 'kise pesh karoon' phrase - it was used in as many as 3 songs in the same film !! The third one (other than the two mentioned above, being 'Rang aur noor ki baaraat kise pesh karoon' )