Archive for the ‘Songs of 1940s (1941 to 1950)’ Category
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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Jis jogi ka jog liyaa wo
Posted on: June 24, 2011
I have been discussing a K L Saigal song daily in this blog and I have so far discussed 58 such songs. I have now reached a stage where almost all the K L Saigal songs uploaded on youtube have been exhausted. Now we are entering into slighly deeper waters as far as K L Saigal songs are concerned. All the songs that one tended to listen to at the stroke of 8 AM in radio Ceylon in the past decades have been covered and now the remaining K L Saigal songs are more rare as far as many listeners, including I am concerned.
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Not too many people are aware of this movie called “Uddhaar” (1949). When one searches for the details of this movie, it turns out that the movie had quite a few big names in it. This movie had Dev Anand, Munawwar Sultana,Pratima Devi,Bharat Bhushan,Nirupa Roy,Ram Singh etc in it. This movie, which was produced by Pratibha Chitra Mandir was directed by S S Kulkarni.
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Dil le ke chhupne waale
Posted on: June 23, 2011
During late 1940s and early 1950s, Rehman used to act as hero in Hindi movies. Unfortunately most such movies with him as the hero seem to have ended up as obscure movies, and he finally had to end up making his living as character artist in subsequent years.
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Chaahe dil ki khidki na khuley
Posted on: June 22, 2011
“Bhool Bhulaiyya” (1949) was apparently a light hearted B grade movie made on a shoe string budget. This movie had some funny songs in it.
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Lab pe fariyaad hai dil barbaad hai
Posted on: June 22, 2011
“Naach” (1949) is a movie that I became aware of only recently. And I have since found that this movie has some lovely songs 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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Alla Hu Alla Hu Alla Hu
Posted on: June 22, 2011
“Omar Khayyam” (1946) is a K L Saigal movie that I was not aware of. This movie had K L Saigal,Suraiyya,Leeta,Wasti,Shakir, Madan Puri, Suraiyya, Benjamin etc in it.
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Aaja meri duniyaa mein
Posted on: June 21, 2011
In olden days, most radio programmes used to be live programmes and appearing in radio programmes was considered a big deal. Many movie artists in fact cut their teeth working on radio in their earlier years.
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