Archive for the ‘Songs of 1940s (1941 to 1950)’ Category
Mast pawan hai chanchal dhaara
Posted on: September 14, 2009
“Jeet” (1949) was a movie starring Suraiyya and Dev Anand. Second lead was played by Madan Puri and Suraiyya Chaudhari, apparently.
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“Do Bhai” (1947) is a movie that was a hit movie of its time. Of course the lead actors of this movie are not all that well known today. Name of Kamini Kaushal is still familiar, but few people may have any idea about Ulhas and Rajan, who are credited as the leading actors of this movie.
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Bahe naa kabhi nain se neer
Posted on: September 12, 2009
“Vidya” (1948) must be one of the first movies in which Suraiyya and Dev Anand were paired together. And this movie was a musical blockbuster too.
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Chaahe kitni kathin dagar ho
Posted on: September 12, 2009
“Jeet” (1949) was an idealistic movie released just after India had become an independent nation. Its idealism may look naive today, but at that time, people actiually had high hopes and big aspirations. This movie “Jeet” (1949) must have struck the right chords with its audience at that time, I am sure.
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I have posted a couple of songs from “Dilruba” (1950) in the past. This movie, which is largely forgotten by now, had Dev Anand and Rehana in lead roles along with Yakub and others.
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I had never heard this song before. I heard this song for the first time only just now.
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“Niraala”(1950) is a movie with Dev Anand and Madhubala, and the story appears an adorable sugar coated love story. I judge a movie by its songs and the songs of this movie are absolutely lovely.
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We have seen songs picturised on Raj Kapoor that were sung mostly by Mukesh, but sometimes by other playback singers as well. For example, there were occasions when Rafi, Manna Dey, Talat Mehmood etc have sung for Raj Kapoor. In fact, in a few early movies, Raj Kapoor sang for himself !
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