Archive for the ‘Songs of 1940s (1941 to 1950)’ Category
“Daasi” (1944), which is a very old and forgotten movie had some superb songs in it. The songs of this movie deserve to be much better known among music lovers.
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In Hindi movies, any situation is good enough situation for bursting into a song. I have seen actors singing a song while on a death bed, or while they are fighting. They sing when sad, and they also sing when they are happy. Social occasions means lots of songs. They in fact also sing when they are travelling, be it by a bullock cart,chariot, tonga,rickshaw,bicycle,car or train.
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I thought that “patang” songs were largely the preserve of Rajinder Krishan, but here is a patang song written by some other lyricist.
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Arri o mohe chhed gayaa
Posted on: December 16, 2010
I have so far discussed songs from “Singaar” (1949) that were sung by Suraiyya and Surinder Kaur and picturised on Suraiyya and Madhubala respectively. This movie also has songs sung by other singers and picturised on lesser actors.
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Dil ki duniyaa ujad gayi
Posted on: December 15, 2010
“Shair” (1949) was a movie starring Suraiyya,Dev Anand, Kamini Kaushal, Agha,Sulochana etc. This movie had some nice songs in it and I have already discussed four of them.
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I have mentioned in the past that “Singaar” (1949) has many songs in it. I have not really counted them, but I am sure that there are more than a dozen great songs in it.
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This is a very well known song- in fact an iconic song. This song is a bullock cart song sung by Mukesh. All these days I thought that this song was from a Raj Kapoor movie. So it came as a surprise to me when I realised that this song is actually from a Dilip Kumar movie.
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Balam mohe chhedo naa
Posted on: December 15, 2010
In Hindi movies, we have songs where the hero teases the lady and then there are songs where the lady
tells him (half seriously) not to tease her. Here is a song that I believe must rank among the best teased songs of all time.
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It is unbelievable how songs composed three/four generations ago could sound so fresh even today, sixty years later, long after most people involved in creating them may have left the scene.
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Songs in the old days were often like works of art that were carefully crafted by master craftsmen. Their artistry resulted in masterpieces that needed to be admired.
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