Archive for the ‘Shamshad Begam songs’ Category
This article is written by Sudhir,a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Sheeshmahal (1950) is a well known Sohrab Modi production that deals with the ups and downs of life. The movie contains a number of good songs, four of which have already been discussed on this blog.
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“Pugree” (1948) is a movie that had Amar, Wasti, Kamini Kaushal, Dikshit,Shashikala, Gope, Pratima Devi, Ram Avtaar etc in it.
This movie had some nice songs in it which were sung by Mukesh, Sitara Kanpuri and Shamshad Begam. I have so far discussed three songs from this movie.
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These are are days of consumerism where people have mind boggling variety of materials to choose from. It is difficult to imagine today that Indian shops till 1970s wore spartan looks and they hardly had anything to offer. People got “phoren” goods from abroad and flaunted them proudly. And smuggling (bringing items without paying the exorbitant taxes) was a flourishing business.
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“Rail Ka Dibba” (1953) was one of the very first movies of Shammi Kapoor. Of course, he was nowhere close to realising his potential and discovering his identity in this movie. For that he would have to wait for another four years.
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I have discussed one song from “Grihasthhi” (1948) in the past. From the comments by our experts, I came to know that this movie had actors like Masood,Sulochana Chatterji,Pran,Sharada,Shyama,Kuldeep kaur,Faizi,Rajni,Yakub, Lalita Pawar,Mirza Musharraf etc in it.
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Choodi dheere pehna o choodi waali
Posted on: June 24, 2011
Obscure movies can sometimes (read often) throw up some pleasant surprises in the form of songs that one did not know existed ! I keep discovering many forgotten gems almost on a daily basis.
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Nainon ke mast ishaare
Posted on: June 24, 2011
“Jal Tarang” (1949) is a by now obscure movie. This movie, which was produced by Kuldeep Pictures and was directed by Rajendra Sharma had Rehman, Geeta Bali, Shashikala, Shyama, Ram Singh, Rajan Haksar etc in it.
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Kabhi dil dil se takraayaa to hogaa
Posted on: June 22, 2011
“Anokhi Adaa” (1948) is a movie that had actors like Murad, Surendra, Cuckoo,Naseem Bano etc in it. I have discussed one song from this movie in the past.
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Jiyaa ka diyaa piyaa timtim howe
Posted on: June 20, 2011
Here is a song from “Sunahre Din” (1949). It is a stage dance song. I am unable to identify the ladies who perform in this dance. I request my knowledgeable readers to help identify them.
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Ek dharti ka rajkumar
Posted on: June 18, 2011
“Chandi Pooja” (1957) was a B grade mythological movie picturised with small time actors. The movie itself turned out to be no great shakes, but one of its songs went on to become a timeless classic. This song is Koi laakh kare chaturaayi sung by Pradeep with his usual fervour and Midas touch.
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