Archive for the ‘Songs of 1948’ Category
Saanjh ki belaa jiyaa akelaa
Posted on: October 16, 2010
“Chandralekha”(1948) was a Hindi remake of Gemini’s movie of the same name in South Indian languages (Tamil and Telugu) and all these versions turned out to be hugely popular and this encouraged Gemini and other South Indian production houses to foray into production of Hindi movies in future.
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The first line of this song is identical to the “Dil Hi To Hai” (1963) song (Nigaahen milaane ko jee chahta hai(Dil hi to hai)), but this song is an entirely different song. This song is from an earlier movie, namely “Paraayi Aag” (1948).
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All patriotic songs have the ability to move the listeners. Out of these songs, the most moving songs are those that talk of the martyr, the shaheed. There has been in fact two movies called “Shaheed”, viz “Shaheed” (1948) and “Shaheed” (1965).
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Gham ka fasaanaa kisko sunaayen
Posted on: August 13, 2010
“Mela” (1948) was a movie starring very young Nargis and Dilip Kumar in lead roles.
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“Pyaar Ki Jeet” (1948) was a movie starring Suraiyya and Dev Anand Rehman. This movie had some very nice songs in it.
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“Khidki”(1948) is a movie starring Rehana and Jawahar Kaul. The songs of this movie are of great historical importance because all the singers who would soon become all time legends sang in this movie.
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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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I was not aware about this movie called “Gajre” (1948) nor about this song.
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Manbhaawan saawan aayaa
Posted on: December 8, 2009
I generally describe the songs in this blog as Bollywood movie songs, using “Bollywood movie” as a catchall phrase to describe all Hindi movies. Bollywood was a term that was coined for Bombay’s Hindi movies industry. But in reality, Bombay was not the only place where such movies were made. Places like Lahore (before 1947), Calcutta, Poona also had thriving Hindi movies industry there.
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Some two years back, I had collected a list of songs picturised on Railways and I thought that I had covered almost all the songs that were there on this topic. By now, I have discovered several more Rail songs.
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