Archive for the ‘Songs of 1940s (1941 to 1950)’ Category
Kitni sach hai ye baat re
Posted on: September 27, 2009
“Mashaal” (1950) was a musical blockbuster which had some very nice songs. For example, ‘Upar gagan vishaal”, which announced the arrival of Manna Dey as a playback singer, was from this movie.
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Look what song I have stumbled upon today ! This movie is called “Jhoola” (1941). It is as old a movie as any, and surprisingly, the quality of audio and video of this song is quite good.
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Baadal aaya jhoom ke
Posted on: September 25, 2009
I have posted several songs from “Shahjahaan” (1946), but even I was not aware of this gem.
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The movie “Dard” (1947) was a movie full of nice songs. The most popular song from this movie was Afsana likh rahi hoon(Dard)(1947),which was sung by Uma Devi (later known as Tuntun).
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Wo din kidhar gaye kaho
Posted on: September 24, 2009
“Singaar” (1949) is a movie starring Suraiyya, and there are some very nice songs sung by her in this movie.
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Wow! What a song this one is. I have been listening to this song for a long time. In my younger days, when I disliked “old” songs, I still subconsciously felt that this song was special. And now that I have no such dislikings, I find that this song is an incredibly melodious song.
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I was aware of a movie called “Naatak” (1974), but there was another movie of this name in 1947. “Naatak” (1947) had a very young Suraiyya in lead role. So she obviously sang her own songs in this movie.
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Mera naram karejwaa dol gayaa
Posted on: September 23, 2009
There have been several movies called “Aarzoo”. There was one “Aarzoo” in 1966 where Shankar Jaikishan’s hit music had helped the movie become a big box office success. There was another movie of this name that was released in 1951. This movie had songs of different genre and they too had become popular in their times.
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Raat hai taaron bhari
Posted on: September 23, 2009
When one talks of a movie called “Pardes”, one may be reminded of a recent movie (recent by the standards of this blog) that was released in 1997. But the first movie of this name was released as far back as in 1950.
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Naina deewaane ek nahin maane
Posted on: September 23, 2009
I keep mentioning repeatedly that there are countless gems lying there that have been forgotten with time.
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