Archive for the ‘Songs of 1940s (1941 to 1950)’ Category
“Chaandni Raat” (1949) is an obscure movie by now. It was a Tajmahal pictures presentation and the movie was directed by M Ehsan. Starcast of the movie had names like Shyam, Naseem, Ulhas, Cuckoo, Jilloo Maa, Parvin, David Abraham etc in it.
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“Khilaadi” (1950) is a Talwar Films presentation. The star cast of the movie had names like Ashok Kumar, Suraiya, Kumar, Indu, E. Tarapore, Anoop Kumar, Narbada Shanker, Sunder, Cuckoo etc in it.
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Bhoolne waale yaad na aa
Posted on: February 3, 2012
“Anokhi Ada”(1948) was a Mehboob Production movie. It was directed by Mehboob Khan and the starcast included names like Surendra, Prem Adeeb,Pratima Devi, Zeb Qureshi, Cuckoo, Bhudo Advani, Nawab, Murad, Naseem etc.
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Dil ko haay dil ko
Posted on: February 2, 2012
“Daastaan” (1950) which was a Musical Pictures Production, was directed by A R Kardar. Apart from Raj Kapoor and Suraiyya, this movie also had Pratima Devi, Al Nasir, Murad, Veena, Suresh, Shakila etc in it.
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This article is written by Khyati Bhatt, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Since Jan 31st, 2012 is the 7th death anniversary of Suraiya (Suraiya Jamal Sheikh), here is a song to remember a beautiful actress.
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“Dulaari” (1949) is today mainly rememebered as the movie which calapulted Rafi to the big league with his by now iconic song Suhaani raat dhal chuki. This movie had other nice songs in it as well. As many as five songs from this movie have been discussed in the blog.
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“Kamal Ke Phool” (1950) is by now a forgotten movie. This movie was a Famous Pictures Production. It was directed by D D Kashyap and the star cast included names like Badri Prasad, Suraiya, Jeevan, Raj Mehra, Leela Misra, Niranjan Sharma, Shakuntala, Amarnath etc in it.
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Just now I came across a fantastic duet song from the era gone by. What a delightful song ! A song like this can magically transport the listeners back in time to those days, even if those days happened to be days before many of us were even born.
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“Ek Din Ka Sultan” (1945) is by now an obscure movie. This movie had Ghulam Mohammad, Mehtab, Wasti, Sadiq Ali etc in lead roles.
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