Archive for September 2009
Mast pawan hai chanchal dhaara
Posted on: September 14, 2009
“Jeet” (1949) was a movie starring Suraiyya and Dev Anand. Second lead was played by Madan Puri and Suraiyya Chaudhari, apparently.
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Here is an absolutely delightful song from “Baiju Baawraa” (1952). I have listened to this song many a times, and still I was not clear which movie this song was from.
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“Aadhi Raat ke baad” (1965) was a B grade movie which had Shailesh Kumar (who ?) as the hero, and dancer Ragini as the heroine.
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Soch samajh kar dil ko lagaana
Posted on: September 13, 2009
Here is a “party” song from “Jaal” (1952). It is the kind of song that would later become Cabarat songs in 1960s.
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“Kavi Kalidas” (1959) was a movie that was not a mainstream movie, rather the so called B grade movie. These were low budget movies whose subjects were often mythology . This particular movie, as its name suggests was the tale of the great Sanskrit poet Kalidas.
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The present generation of people are aware that India became an independent country in 1947 and a democracy in 1950, but it is difficult for them to imagine the changes, trannsformations, upheavals and paradigm shifts that the general poplulation had to suffer in the earlier years of this newly independent nation.
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“Do Bhai” (1947) is a movie that was a hit movie of its time. Of course the lead actors of this movie are not all that well known today. Name of Kamini Kaushal is still familiar, but few people may have any idea about Ulhas and Rajan, who are credited as the leading actors of this movie.
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Ye raah badi mushqil hai
Posted on: September 13, 2009
Listen to this song and one may think that this is an O P Nayyar composition. I thought so too. But when I found out the details of this song, I found that this song was composed by Madan Mohan.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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