Melody is one of the important element in music. Different musical styles are used melody in different ways. Melody Songs covers various genres of non-classical music.There are some list of Urdu melody songs.

1.Rafta rafta woh meri hasti ka saama ho geye
Film : Zeenat
Song : Rafta rafta woh meri hasti ka saama ho geye
Singer : Mehdi Hassan
Music : Nashaad
Lyrics : Masroor Anwer
URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAVT9CU6DKQ

One of the greatest Pakistani Urdu film is “Zeenat”. Shabnam and Munawar Zarif played their best roles in this big musical film.’Rafta rafta woh meri hasti ka saama ho geye’ song is very popular and greatest melody song. Song lyrics by Masroor anwer. He has the “Nigar award” winner for the best lyricist. His lyrics are excellent and very touching words.The beautiful song sung by Mehdi Hassan, he is more famous as Ghazal-singer and is best known as The King of Ghazal´s. He sung a more more of super hit songs in Pakistani films.This film also belongs to the legend music by Nashaad.

2.Yeh Duniya rahe na rahe mere hamdam
Film : Mera naam hai mohabbat
Song : Yeh Duniya rahe na rahe mere hamdam
Singer : Naheed Akhar,Mehdi Hassan
Music Director : M. Ashraf

URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dw3YZ4aHpnU

This song from the movie “Mera naam hai mohabbat”. The film is a big romantic film.The film was a huge success because of its super-hit music and excellent performances. Naheed Akhar,Mehdi Hassan sung by this song in M. Ashraf composition. Naheed Akhtar is a best female singer in the urdu film musics. The greatest melody song of the film in ‘Yeh Duniya rahe na rahe mere hamdam’.

3. Dil Tera Huwa…
Film : Inteha
Song : Dil Tera Huwa…
singer : Waris Baig,Shazia Manzoor
Music : Amjad Bobby
Lyrics : Riaz-ur-Rehman Saghar

URL: http://www.musicpakistan.net/modules.php?name=Downloads&d_op=viewdownload&cid=109

“Inteha “is a Pakistani Urdu film which was released in 1999. ‘Inteha’ was an “intense love story” that was full of emotions and passion. Inteha’s soundtrack composed by the late Amjad Bobby was much appreciated. He was one of the most talented music composer of Urdu Music.This film has turned out to be fabulous. ‘Dil tera huwa’ is the best song this film. The song lyrics by Riaz-ur-rehman saghar and the beautiful song sung by Waris baig and Shazia manzoor.

4.Hath se hath kya gya…
Film :Tere pyar mein
Song :Hath se hath kya gya…
Singer :Touseef Daar,Asma Lata
Music :Amjad Bobby

URL:http://video.aol.com/video-detail/zara-sheikh-hath-say-hath-tere-pyar-mein-lollywood-film/3655015240

“Tere pyar mein” is a super hit musical and action film for excellent acting and a tight script. ‘Hath se hath kya gya ’song is the best melodious song in this movie.The music is directed by Amjad bobby.He was one of the most talented music composer of Urdu Music.The song lyrics is excellent and the words are very touches by hearts. The song tune is good and great to hear this song. Beautiful songs are sung by Touseef Daar and Asma Lata.

5. Jaan bhi de doon ..
Film : Mujhe Chand Chahiye
Song : Jaan bhi de doon ..
Singer : shabnam majeed
Music : Ronaq Ali
Lyrics : R. R Saghar

URL;http://www.emusic.com/album/Various-Artists-Mujhe-Chand-Chahiye-MP3-Download/11219107.html
“Mujhe Chand Chahiye” is definitely one of the lollywood’s better made movies. It’s a musical love story, which revolves around three people.Ronaq Ali and Sajjid Ali composed quality music. Each and every song is excellent and background score is good too.The best song of the film is ” Jan bhi day doon”.The film is quite appreciated, especially the songs.All songs have good lyrics because R.R Saghar is the good talented lyricist.The beautiful song is sung by Shabnam majeed.

6. Dil ke badley Dil
Film : Ghar kab ao gey
Song : Dil ke badley Dil..
Singer : Shazia Manzoor, Asma Lata..
Music : Amjad Bobby

URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eW9vIcfxSb8

“Ghar kab ao gey” is a super hit romantic film. The best song of the film is ‘Dil ke badley Dil’. Amjad Bobby composed a high impressive and quality music. All songs are excellent and background music is good.The song based made this movie is completely hit. All songs have a good lyrics and the beautiful song is sung by Shazia Manzoor and Asma Lata.

7. Door jana na mujhe se…

Film : Khoye ho tum kahan
Song : Door jana na mujhe se…
Singer : Zain, Asima Lata..
Music : Zain
Lyrics : Zain

URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lUxnrpMCnM&feature=related

“Khoye ho tum kahan” is one of the romantic movie.The best song of the film is ‘Door jana na mujhe se’. Zain and Asima Lata are sung this song. I think Zain is all rounder in this film. Eight songs in this movie each and every songs are very nice to hear and good songs. All songs have as good lyrics and the lyrics also by Zain.

8. Dil ko dildar mila, pyar ko…
Film :Yeh Dil aap ka hua
Song :Dil ko dildar mila, pyar ko…
Singer :Kaveeta Krishna Murti
Music :Amjad Bobby
Lyrics :Nida
URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2V2tzYMXYao&feature=related

The movie also known as a super hit platinum jubilee musical film.The best song of the film is ‘Dil ko dildar mila’. Amjad Bobby composed the beautiful song sung by kavitha krishnamurti. The song based and the acting based made this movie was super hit. The song lyrics by Nida. He has one of the best song writer in the Urdu film industry.

9. Yeh Dil hai deevan tere pyar ka…
Film : Nikah
Song : Yeh Dil hai deevan tere pyar ka…
Singer : Akhlaq Ahmad
Music : Robin Ghosh, M. Arshad
Lyrics : Saeed Geelani, Riaz-ur-Rehman Saghar, Abrar-ul-Haq

URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OtsZuUly710

The film “Nikah” is a remake of film ” Aina”.The story about the film in two different classes lovers got married and difficulties to adjustment of the rich family in middle class family. The song based the movie is hit. Akhlaq ahmad sung the melodious song “Yeh Dil hai deevan tere pyar ka” in Robin Ghosh, M. Arshad composition. Akhlaq ahmad top male playback singers in Pakistani films.There are four songs in this movie, each and every songs are excellent. All songs have a good lyrics, lyrics by Saeed Geelani,Riaz-ur-Rehman Saghar, Abrar-ul-Haq.I think the best song of the film is “Yeh Dil hai deevan tere pyar ka”.

10. Akila mujjay chor ke
Film : Pehla pehla pyar
Song : Akila mujjay chor ke
Singer : zara sheikh
Music : Yousuf Khan, Haris Qureshi
Lyrics : Saleem Ullah, B. Khan, Mubashar Luqman

URL: http://youtube.com/watch?v=vWLWXQcrfJM

“Pehla Pehla Pyar” is one of the best romantic movie. The film was most expensive.The songs are all very romantic and have beautiful melodies and rich arrangements.The songs are simple and have a good lyrics.The beautiful song sung by zara sheikh and composed by Yousuf Khan, Haris Qureshi.The song lyrics by Saleem Ullah, B. Khan, Mubashar Luqman.Each and every songs are highly impressive songs. I think the best song of film is “akila mujjay chor ke”.

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American cinema had a effect on cinema across the world since the early 20th century. Its history is sometimes separated into four main periods, the silent film era, Classical Hollywood cinema, New Hollywood, and the contemporary period (after 1980) .Classical Hollywood cinema are terms used in film history which designates both a visual and sound style for making motion pictures and a mode of production that arose in the American film industry of the 1910s and 1920s.The late 1920’s to the 1950’s are the golden age of Hollywood cinemas. Jean Arthur ,Fred Astaire ,Lauren Bacall ,Anne Bancroft,Theda Bara are some famous actors of Hollywood. Some of the top Hollywood movies are listed  below.

1.Casablanca

Director : Michael Curtiz
Music Director : Hugo W. Friedhofer,Max Steiner
Production : Hal B. Wallis
Casts :Humphrey Bogart,Ingrid Bergman,Paul Henreid,Claude Rains,Conrad Veidt

URL : http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0034583/

“Casablanca” is a 1942 Oscar winning romantic movie. It focuses on Rick’s conflict between love and virtue. Rick Blaine is a exiled American and former freedom fighter, runs the most popular nightspot in town. He must choose between his love for Ilsa and doing the right thing, helping her and her resistance leader husband escape from Casablanca to continue his fight against the Nazis. Everyone in this film is fabulous, but it is the chemistry of Rick and Ilsa  been truly holds the film together.This film convinces through its beautiful story with many layers, and characters that are so well realized.

2. Psycho

Director             : Alfred Hitchcock
Music Director  : Bernard Herrmann
Production        : Alfred Hitchcock,Alma Reville
Casts                : Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, Vera Miles, John Gavin

URL :http://uk.imdb.com/title/tt0054215/

“Psycho” is a 1960 suspense or horror film. It is based on the novel of the Robert Bloch, which was in turn inspired by the crimes of Wisconsin murderer Ed Gein. Marion Crane works at a Real Estate Office in Arizona. She has a boyfriend Sam. She wants to marry Sam, but the two do not have enough money. One Friday, December the eleventh, Mr. Cassidy, a rich oil tycoon, comes to the office to give Lowery $40,000 to buy a house for his daughter’s wedding present. Lowery asks Marion to deposit the cash. Seeing the opportunity to take the money and start a new life, Marion leaves town and heads towards Sam’s California store. But she was caught in a storm, she gets off the main highway and pulls into The Bates Motel. The motel is managed by a quiet young man called Norman who seems to be dominated by his mother.This forms the rest of the story.

3.The Godfather

Director             : Francis Ford Coppola
Music Director   : Nino Rota,Carmine Coppola
Production         : Albert S. Ruddy
Casts                 : Marlon Brando,Al Pacino,James Caan,Robert Duvall,Diane Keaton

URL:http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068646/

“The Godfather” is a 1972 crime film based on the 1969 novel of the same name by Mario Puzo .”Don” Vito Corleone, the head of a New York Mafia family oversees his daughter’s wedding reception. His youngest son Michael has returned from war  just in time to see the wedding. Michael’s family is involved with the Mafia, but Michael just wants to live a normal life. Drug dealer Virgil Sollozzo is looking for Mafia families to offer him protection in exchange for a profit of the drug money. He approaches Don Corleone. But Don turns down the offer. So Don shot down by some of Sollozzo’s men. The Don barely survives, which leads his son Michael to begin a violent mob war against Sollozzo and tears the Corleone family apart.

4.The Shining

Director            : Stanley Kubrick
Music Director  :  Wendy Carlos,Rachel Elkind
Production       : Stanley Kubrick,Jan Harlan,Martin Richards
Casts               : Jack Nicholson,Shelley Duvall,Danny Lloyd,Scatman Crothers

URL :http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081505/

“The Shining” is a 1980 horror film based on Stephen King’s novel .This film is the  story of a writer, Jack Torrance (Jack Nicholson), and his wife and son, who move into a reclusive hotel as caretaker. There were rumors of the place being haunted and the last resident went crazy and murdered his family. But Jack is convinced it will be ok and he can use the quiet to overcome his writer’s block. After months of solitude and silence however, Jack becomes a grumpy and later violent. All the characters in this film are well-acted, and this film had a great story.

5.Die Hard

Director : John McTiernan
Music Director : Michael Kamen,Chris Boardman
Production :Lawrence Gordon,Joel Silver,Charles Gordon
Casts :Bruce Willis,Alan Rickman,Bonnie Bedelia,Alexander Godunov,Reginald VelJohnson,Paul Gleason

URL :http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095016/

“Die Hard” is an Academy Award nominated 1988 American action film.The movie is based on a 1979 novel by Roderick Thorp titled Nothing Lasts Forever. In the city of Los Angeles, a Christmas party is held on the 30th floor of the Nakatomi Plaza Hotel. While the party is going on, downstairs, a band of German terrorists arrive and take the entire building hostage including its employees and attempts a huge robbery.But Luckily, they missed the hero of this film John since he was in the bathroom. He goes to floor 32 and pulls the fire alarm, but the terrorists cancel the alarm and send someone up to kill John. However, he kills the terrorist and steals his machine gun. Now he has to kill the rest of the terrorists and save the hostages before the terrorists get their way. The direction, the action, the story, the acting ,every aspect of this film comes close to big-budget action movie perfection

6.Schindler’s List

Director            : Steven Spielberg
Music Director : John Williams
Production       : Steven Spielberg,Kathleen Kennedy,Branko Lustig
Casts               : Liam Neeson,Ben Kingsley,Ralph Fiennes,Caroline Goodall,Embeth Davidtz

URL :http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108052/

“Schindler’s List” is a 1993 biographical film telling the story of Oskar Schindler, a German businessman who saved the lives of more than one thousand Polish Jews during the Holocaust. It was based on the novel ‘Schindler’s Ark’ by Thomas Keneally. Oskar Schindler witnesses the horrifying visions of the Holocaust and the toll it takes on the Jewish people. Eventually, he creates a list of over 1100 Jews whom he saves from death. Never in the history of motion pictures has a film had such an emotional impact upon its constituents. This film was both a box office success and recipient of seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Score.

7.The matirx

Director            : The Wachowski brothers
Music Director : Don Davis
Production       : Joel Silver
Casts               : Keanu Reeves,Laurence Fishburne,Carrie-Anne Moss,Hugo Weaving.Joe Pantoliano.

URL:http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0133093/

“The Matrix” is a 1999 science fiction action film.Thomas A. Anderson is an average computer programmer in day time and by night a malevolent hacker known as Neo. Neo finds himself targeted by the police when he is contacted by Morpheus, a legendary computer hacker branded a terrorist by the government. Morpheus awakens Neo to the real world, a ravaged wasteland where most of humanity have been captured by a race of machines which live off of their body heat and imprison their minds within an artificial reality known as the Matrix. As a rebel against the machines, Neo must return to the Matrix and confront the agents, super powerful computer programs devoted to snuffing out Neo and the entire human rebellion.

8.The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

Director              : Peter Jackson
Music Director   : Howard Shore
Production         : P eter Jackson,Barrie M. Osborne,Tim Sanders,Fran Walsh
Casts                :Elijah Wood,Sean Astin,Viggo Mortensen,Ian McKellen,Sean Bean

URL :http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120737/

“The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring” is a 2001 fantasy film based on the similarly titled first volume of J. R. R. Tolkien’s epic literary fantasy, ‘The Lord of the Rings’. The story tells of the Dark Lord Sauron (Sala Baker), who is seeking the One Ring . The Ring has found its way to the young hobbit Frodo Baggins (Elijah Wood). The fate of Middle earth hangs in the balance as Frodo and eight companions form the Fellowship of the Ring, and journey to Mount Doom in the land of Mordor: the only place where the Ring can be destroyed. This film seemed overall to be excessively plot-driven and at times a mad dash from one action scene to another, the characters, for all their truth to the book did seem flat and sometimes little more than stereotypical fantasy characters.

9.The Aviator

Director            : Martin Scorsese
Music Director : Howard Shore
Production       : Michael Mann,Sandy Climan,Graham King,Charles Evans, Jr.
Casts               : Leonardo DiCaprio,Cate Blanchett,John C. Reilly,Willem Dafoe,Jude Law

URL :http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0338751/usercomments

“The Aviator” is a 2004 American biographical drama film based on the book ‘Howard Hughes: The Secret Life’ by Charles Higham. It tells the story of the eccentric aviation pioneer Howard Hughes, played by Leonardo DiCaprio, following his life from the late 1920s through the 1940s.This film begins as a young Hughes directs one of Scorsese’s favorite films, Hell’s Angels. Hughes was so obsessed with perfection in the aerial sequences that he waits forever for perfect conditions. The Aviator ends in 1946, when Hughes was still a dashing young man and romancing actresses like Ava Gardner and Katharine Hepburn.

10. No Country for Old Men

Director           : Joel Coen,Ethan Coen
Music Director : Carter Burwell
Production       : Joel Coen,Ethan Coen,Scott Rudin
Casts               : Tommy Lee Jones,Josh Brolin,Javier Bardem

URL :http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0477348/

‘No Country for Old Men’ is a 2007 crime thriller film adapted for the screen and is based on Cormac McCarthy novel .The story revolves around the chase between a guy named Llewelyn Moss (Josh Brolin) who stumbles upon a stash of money in a drug deal gone wrong in the middle of the desert and a psychopathic but surprisingly principled assassin named Anton Chigurh (Javier Bardem). The third party and the moral center of the story is the guy trying to find both the hunter and the hunted, Ed Tom Bell, the old sheriff of a peaceful, but increasingly becoming violent locality in West Texas.  The movie features the perfect mix thrill and excitement that would be expected out of a movie in this genre.

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