Archive for the ‘Songs of 1949’ Category
Anjaam e muhabbat kuchh bhi nahin
Posted on: April 7, 2011
“Chaar Din” (1949) is a movie starring Shyam and Suraiyya. This movie had some nice songs in it that became good candidates for being played in the “puraani filmon ke geet” on radio ceylon when I was growing up.
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Thaanedaar, viz inchange of the police station (Thaanaa) is a very important person as far as public are concerned. The original term for Thaanedaar, that old generation grew up with, is “Daarogaa”. “Darogaa” was much feared ( and therefore respected) by aam jantaa. Just as members of more educated sections of society aspired to become ICS (and later IAS) officers, members of lower rung of society aspired to become Policeman and from there to Hawaldaar and then rise up to the exalted post of “daarogaa”. Other posts that carried similar awe and shock among public was “Kotwaal”. There is in fact a saying in Hindi “Sainyya bhaye kotwaal to ab dar kaahe kaa” (My beloved has become kotwaal, so now I have noting to fear).
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Pyaar mein tumne dhokhaa seekhaa
Posted on: March 7, 2011
“Shabnam”(1949) is a movie starring Kamini Kaushal, Dilip Kumar, Cuckoo, Jeewan etc. This movie seems to have lots and lots of songs in it that get played in the movie one after the other. Of course, I have not seen this movie and my observation is based on the number of songs that this movie has. As it is, I have discussed four songs from this movie and there seems to be many more songs in this movie.
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Mera dil tadpaa kar kahaan chalaa
Posted on: March 6, 2011
“Shabnam” (1949) is a movie that starred Kamini Kaushal and Dilip Kumar. This movie apparently was a box office success. And the music of this movie must have played a big role in the success of the movie.
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Basanti phool khiley
Posted on: March 4, 2011
“Uddhaar” (1949) is an obscure movie that few people know anything about. This movie had some big names of those days in it. It had Munawwar Sultana, Dev Anand, Nirupa Roy, Bharat Bhushan etc in it.
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Saajan ki galiyaan chhod chaley
Posted on: March 3, 2011
I am aware of two movies called “Baazaar”. One was released in 1949 and another in 1982.
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“Balam” (1949) is a movie starring Wasti,Suraiyya,Jayant,Masud,Nigar Sultana,Agha etc and several of these names do not ring any bells for most music lovers, that is how old this movie is.
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Lut gayi ummeedon ki duniyaa
Posted on: March 1, 2011
“Jal Tarang” (1949) is a forgotten movie which starred Rehman, Geeta Bali and a dog. Like the movie, its songs too are forgotten.
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Hans le gaa le o chaand mere
Posted on: March 1, 2011
I have discussed as many as six songs from “Jeet” (1948) in this blog. Most of these songs were sung by Suraiyya, the then reigning acting-singing superstar. But this movie also had a new emerging voice that was tipped to go far. Yes, Lata Mangeshkar was also given an opportunity of playback singing in this movie.
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I have discussed as many as seven songs from “Dillagi” (1949) already in this blog. So I thought that there was no other song left in this movie to be discussed. But I was wrong. There are a few more songs in this movie that are still missing in this blog.
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