Archive for the ‘Songs of 1940s (1941 to 1950)’ Category
Beech bhanwar mein aan phansi hai
Posted on: April 1, 2010
I have posted a few songs from “Dard” (1947) in the past, including the iconic “afsaana likh rahi hoon” from this movie.
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I have posted two songs from “Anmol Ghadi” (1946) in this blog, but that is just the tip of the iceberg as far as the music of this movie is concerned. The world has changed a great deal from the time the music of this movie was created, but the magic of its music sounds as fresh today as it must have 64 years ago.
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Ab kaun sunegaa haay re
Posted on: March 3, 2010
Here is a rare song from an obscure movie called “Darogaji” (1949). This song is from an entirely different era over six decades ago. Those were the days when Geeta Dutt was still Geeta Roy, and Nargis had yet to become a very big name actress.
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Naache ghodaa naache ghodaa
Posted on: February 12, 2010
Till recently, scoring centuries of songs took me just a fortnight. But now I have slowed down considerably. My previous century (song number 2101 to 2200) took me one month. Even that was much faster than my present century. Yes, this song is song number 2300 for this song, and it has taken me a tortoise like two months and a half to reach from 2201 to 2300 !
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Ek mera dil ek unkaa dil
Posted on: February 12, 2010
I have posted a song from “Laajawaab” (1950) in the past. Here is another song from this movie.
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Here is a laajaawaab song from a movie called, well, “Laajawaab”. This is a movie from 1950 which had Sohan, Rehaana, Ifteqar etc in lead roles.
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Ye raat phir na aayegi
Posted on: February 3, 2010
“Mahal” (1949) was one of the earliest movies of the suspense genre. This movie had some nice songs in it.
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