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“Naubahaar” (1952) is a movie starring Ashok Kumar and Nalini Jaiwant. This movie was a musical block buster. I have posted a couple of songs from this movie in the past, and I need to post more songs from this movie.
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Pardesiyon se na ankhiyaan milaanaa
Posted on: July 8, 2010
I think I need to create another artificial category of songs, viz. “songs that I thought were already posted but I was wrong” category.
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Piyaa milan ko jaanaa
Posted on: June 24, 2010
When I was a kid, I liked new songs and scoffed at old songs, especially the songs that were played in Radio Ceylon’s “Puraani Filmon Ke Geet” between 7-30 AM to 8 AM. I wondered why the old singers could not sing like the new singers. I had no sense of history to realise that there would be no new singers but for the older singers.
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I have listened to this song in the past and liked it too, but all this while I was totally ignorant about the details of this song. The only thing I knew about this song is that the song is sung by Rafi.
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Here is a song from a forgotten movie called “Ghar Sansaar” (1958). This movie had Balraj Sahni and Nargis in lead roles.
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Mud mud ke na dekh mud mud ke
Posted on: April 13, 2010
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I just realised that I had posted very few songs from “Shri 420″(1955) in this blog. To make amends, I posted one song yesterday. Here is another song from this movie.
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Aayi bahaaron ki shaam
Posted on: April 4, 2010
“Waapas”(1969) is a movie that had unknown actors in it and the movie sank without a trace. Those were the days when the Indian movie audience were too immature and simplistic in their choices and any movie even slightly off the mainstream track tended to flounder badly.
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Bol ri kathputli
Posted on: January 3, 2010
I have posted a few songs from “Kathputli” (1957) in the past. Here is the title song from this movie.
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In 1950s and 1960s, there were some songs where kids would ask a lady to tell them a story and the lady would sing a sad song. In the song, she would tell the kids about her own sad story. I had posted such songs here from “Gumrah” and “Lajwanti” , where Mala Sinha and Nargis sing such songs.
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Din hain pyaare pyaare
Posted on: November 9, 2009
I have posted a song from “Kaali Ghataa” (1951) in the past. Here is another song from this movie.
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