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I had not heard about this movie called “Mehbooba” (1954). Now I know that this was a movie starring Shammi Kapoor and Nalini Jaiwant. Though it must be said that Shammi Kapoor was more like a struggler than a star at that time.
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Ab wo hamaare ho gaye
Posted on: November 27, 2009
When one talks of “Safar”, I am reminded of a 1970 movie by this name starring Rajesh Khanna. But there was another movie by this name that was released in 1946. Not much is known about this movie, at least to me, but it seems that this movie had actors called Kanu Roy, S L Puri, V H Desai, Shobha etc. Naseem Akhtar (never heard of this name) was a singer in this movie.
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Ho gayi re teri ho gayi
Posted on: November 26, 2009
“Sazaa”(1951) has a few very nice songs that I was aware of and whicch I have already posted. I stumbled upon another song from this movie about which I was just not aware. The song as well as the picturisation just bowled me over as soon as I got an opportunity to watch this song.
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Bol papeehe bol re
Posted on: November 26, 2009
What I knew about “Taraanaa” (1951) was that the movie had Dilip Kumar and Madhubala in lead roles. But was that all ? there was more to it than just these two.
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Do din ke liye mehmaan yahaan
Posted on: November 26, 2009
“Baadal” (1951) was a movie in which Premnath and Madhubala played the lead roles. Yes, Premnath used to be hero of Bollywood movies those days.
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“Zabak” (1961) was a mythological Arabian Nights kind of movie produced by Homi Wadia. Mahipal and Shyama played lead roles in this movie.
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Chanda jaa Chandaa jaa re jaa
Posted on: November 23, 2009
There are songs with similar opening lines in “Ziddi” (1948) and well as in “Private Secretary” (1962). Both these songs are sung by Lata and both are superb songs.
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O nirdayi preetam
Posted on: November 23, 2009
It is often said that one needs to use heavy duty Urdu words to come up with romantic ( as well as other kinds of) songs, and people agree. But the facts are, most of the lyricists in the formative years of Bollywood movie songs were more familiar with Urdu and they created such songs using words they were more comfortable with. Listeners who were not familiar with Urdu were often clueless about many words in these songs. Many listeners, such as yours truly, did not know what words like “ulfat”, fitrat” etc meant. People would guess about the meanings of these words in the context of the topic. Sometimes their guess would turn out to be correct, and sometimes not.
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“Ek Ke Baad Ek” (1960) is a lesser known movie starring Dev Anand and Sharada.
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Wo paas bhi rahkar paas nahin
Posted on: November 21, 2009
When I was young, I disliked old songs, and I would only listen to new songs, which meant songs of 1970s. But now I cannot have enough of old songs, viz songs of 1950s and even earlier. In fact, I love the music of the songs in these songs.
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