Foot Tapping & Heart Stopping Op, The King of Rhythm Options

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Concluding Songs from "Sambandh (1969)"...

Here are some music clips from the film and instrumentals of the song "Chal Akela"...

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Sawan ki Ghata (1966)

This movie is another fine effort from the maestro OP. Each one of the song became immensely popular. The song “Honton Pe Hansi” even though was recorded and issued in LPs and later CDs, it was not picturized in the film. I am not sure the reason behind this decision. G.S. Kohli and Sebastian were OP’s assistants.

Shakti Samanta who produced and directed this film selected Manoj to play the lead opposite Sharmila whom he introduced two years earlier in “Kasmir Ki Kali”. Shammi acted in several Samanta movies, six altogether, was bypassed this time. I think this movie badly needed him. In spite of his best efforts, Manoj was still ill at ease in the type of role he was playing.

I am uploading all songs of the film and some instrumentals in three back-to-back posts. The first two posts contain all songs. The third post contains some instrumentals.

Here is the first set of songs…

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Concluding Songs from "Sawan ki Ghata (1966)"...

Here are the rest of the songs and some music clips from this film...

This post has been edited by swarapriya: Jul 14 2015, 07:05 PM

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A Few Instrumentals of the Song "Haule Haule" from "Sawan ki Ghata (1966)"...

Here are a few instrumentals of the song "Haule Haule"...

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Taxi Driver (1973)

Vishal Anand, the hero of this film, is related to Dev Anand. He appeared in only handful of films. He also produced and directed films under the name of Bhisham Kohli which is his real name. One of his hit films was the 1976 “Chalte Chalte” that he produced as well as acted in. He gave Bappi Lahiri break in this film in which number of songs including the title song were chart busters.

In this film he adapted all the mannerisms of Dev Anand but the movie did not work. In spite of the routine and predictable melodrama, there is unnecessary comedy with Tun Tun, Asit Sen, and Mohan Choti taking too much of film’s time thus slowing any tempo there is.

OP did his usual stuff here. Part of the song “Pyaar” appeared towards the end for the second time in the movie. I am uploading it as part 2. Also, the beginning of “Kha Kar”, appeared for the second time at the end of the movie. There is no music preceding or following it. So I am not uploading it.

OP’s website lists a second version of the song “Jinhen” that was sung by Asha and Usha Khanna. However the song was not in the DVD and I could not find it anywhere else. Could this be an error? Or if the song does exist, please kindly share it with rest of us. Thank you…

I am uploading above mentioned songs and others in two back-to-back posts. Here is the first set of songs…

[swarapriya]

Concluding Songs from "Taxi Driver (1973)"...

Here are the rest of the songs from this film...

[swarapriya]

The Killers (1969)

Leave it to OP. Whether the movie is A grade or whether it is a B grade, he always gave his best. This movie is a prime example of this. Each and every song in this film is very good with Asha participating in all of them. Here are the songs…

[HarshBhatt]

Thanks Swarapriya, you are getting young day by day.
Never heard of The Killers before, Thanks for sharing

[swarapriya]

Thanks Swarapriya, you are getting young day by day.
Never heard of The Killers before, Thanks for sharing

You always have nice and encouraging words for me. Thank you kindly Harshji.

Cheers.

[Abdur Rehman]

Thanks SP for the songs ...

[Abdur Rehman]

Thanks SP for the songs ...

[RakeshKumar]

Thanks!! You are amazing!! I also never heard of this film..Thanks again!!

[swarapriya]

Thanks SP for the songs ...

You are welcome Seshadri. Cheers.

[swarapriya]

Thanks!! You are amazing!! I also never heard of this film..Thanks again!!

You are welcome. And thanks for the kind words. Cheers Rakesh.

[swarapriya]

(Kishore) Chham Chhama Chham (1952)

I am re-uploading these songs on request...

This was O.P. Nayyar’s second film as a fulltime music director. Earlier he had composed a couple of instrumentals for “Kaneez” in 1949. But its music directors were Hansraj Behl and Ghulam Haider. His first movie as a fulltime music director was “Aasman”. It was also released in 1952 but before this film.

Unfortunately the quality of these songs is really bad. Therefore I am uploading them at a lower bit rate. A note on the song, “Mila Naina Mila”. This is actually a duet where Kishore’s portion is all dialogues. These dialogues in the song are very noisy and unintelligible. If you remove them, only Asha’s song remains that is really nice by itself. I am uploading this song with and without dialogues.

It appears like that I may be missing a couple more songs. These are shown in red italics in the table below. If anyone of you have these, please share with rest of us. Thanks.

Here are the songs I have from this film…