Archive for the ‘Songs of 1949’ Category
Dil mere ud jaa
Posted on: July 18, 2010
I have never heard of a movie called “Roshni” (1949). But that did not prevent me from stumbling upon a song from this movie.
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I have posted three songs from “Shair” (1949) in this blog, but what are three songs from a musical blockbuster movie that had nearly a dozen songs in it ! I need to post the remaining songs from this movie as well which are just as nice to listen to.
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“Chaar Din” (1949) is a movie which had Suraiyya and Shyam in lead roles. This movie has music by Shyam Sundar which to me is always an indication that the movie will have some lovely songs in it.
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Saajan ki ot leke
Posted on: May 23, 2010
“Zewaraat” (1949) is an obscure movie by now. From the little information that I could ferret out about this movie, this movie had Meena (Shorey ?), Masood (?), Yaaqub etc in it.
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I came across this song from a very old movie called “Singaar” (1949). The artists involved in creating this song are not all that well known today. The singer is Surinder Kaur and the lyricist is Nakshab. Khursheed Anwar composed the music.
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“Lahore” (1949) is a love story that begins at Lahore in pre- independence days.Nargis and Karan Dewan falling in love there. Then independence leads to partition and violence. They are separated in the aftermath of partition. The two finally reunite at Delhi when a Muslim protects Nargis brings her to Delhi.That way, the story of “Lahore” is somewhat similar to the story of “Chhaliya” (1959).
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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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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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Mere piyaa to base pardes re
Posted on: December 4, 2009
In 1944 Naushad had introduced folk music based tunes to bollywood movies with “Rattan” (1944). One day when S D Burman went to his kitchen, he found his cook singing a song from Rattan (“jab tumhi chale pardes”) with great relish-“jhoom jhoom ke”.
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There are several movies called Dillagi, but the earliest movie of this name that I am awre of is “Dillagi” (1949). This movie had Shyam,Suraiyya, Amar, Sharda, Amir Bano etc in it.
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