Archive for the ‘“Cuckoo” songs’ Category
Bogi bogi bogi
Posted on: April 19, 2013
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
HAM LOG (1951) was a typical Zia Sarhadi film highlighting the social issues in keeping with the socialistic ideology followed by Indian People’s Theatre Association (IPTA). The film was produced under the banner of Ranjit Movietone. In this film, social issues were raised that arose out of the difficulties faced by a poor family of Lalaji Harcharandas (Kanhaiyalal) and his wife (Durga Khote), unemployed son Raj (Balraj Sahani), a sickly daughter Paro (Nutan) and a school going son (Master Ratan). The problem is further accentuated by the arrest of Lalaji for allegedly stealing money from his employer for which he is sent to prison.
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“Chalti Ka Naam Gaadi” (1958) has as many as eight songs in it. Seven of these songs have already been discussed.
Here is the eighth and final song from the movie.
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O baabu kaise dil karoon qaaboo
Posted on: September 9, 2012
“Sagaai”(1951) was a Varma Films production. It was directed by H S Rawail. The movie had Premnath, Rehana, Sunder, Cuckoo, Gope, Yakub, Vijayalaxmi, Purnima, Mohana, Iftekhar etc in it.
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Haay baalam kitna jaalam
Posted on: November 16, 2011
Helen has been the most well known item song dancer in Hindi movies. But she was not the first one. The original item song dancer in Hindi movies was Cuckoo. In fact, it was Cuckoo who was instrumental in getting Helen her initial breaks in Hindi movies. So in a way Helen was Cuckoo’s protege.
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Kyaa dhadak dhadak dil dhadkey
Posted on: July 16, 2011
Music director Roshan was born on 16 july in the year 1917. He had a very successful career lasting nearly 18 years before he was snatched away at a relatively young age of only 50, when he was at the peak of his musical prowess.
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Ho nadiyaa kinaare mora gaaon re
Posted on: July 2, 2011
“Ham Ek Hain”(1946) is the movie where Dev Anand made his debut alongwith Rehman and Rehana. This movie was also the debut of P L Santoshi as director.
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Saamne galli mein mera ghar hai
Posted on: June 21, 2011
There have been many movies, Hindi as well as Punjabi on the story of Mirza Sahiban. One of the first such Hindi movie was “Mirza Sahiban” (1947). I have discussed three songs from this movie in the past.
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I have already discussed as amany as eight songs from “Afsaanaa” (1951) but it turns out that I am not yet done with the songs of this movie.
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Mere ghoonghar waale baal ho raja
Posted on: June 8, 2011
From late 1950s onwards, we had Helen as the dancing sensation. Before her, we had Cuckoo. In a way, Cuckoo was the fore runner of Helen.
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