Archive for the ‘Songs of 1950’ Category
Ye hawa ye fiza ye bahaaren
Posted on: June 14, 2013
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Geeta Dutt was one of the few singers who got a godsend opportunity as a playback singer in Hindi films. The devdoot or farishta (angel) in her case was none other than Pandit Hanuman Prasad, one of the music director of the 40s. While walking on a Mumbai street, he heard a singing voice coming from the balcony of the building above him which attracted his attention. He straightway walked into the room and found a teenage girl singing. She was Geeta Roy as she was known then. He liked her singing so much that he offered her the chance to sing a predominantly chorus song in the film ‘Bhakt Prahlad (1946) in which she had two lines to sing. These two lines from the song attracted the attention of S D Burman who persuaded her parents to let her sing in ‘Do Bhai’ (1947). The iconic song “mera sundar sapna beet gaya” and the box office success of the film signalled the arrival of Geeta Roy as a playback singer. By the end of 40s, she had already attained the status of one of the prominent female playback singers of Hindi films.
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Paas balam chori chori aa
Posted on: June 10, 2013
This article is written by Arunkumar Deshmukh, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
This is a song from LAJAWAB-1950. Anil Biswas was the Music Director. By 1950, he had been in the Hindi film industry for about 15 years. He was hailed as the original composer and also the senior most one to be called “Bhishma Pitamah” of the HFM. He had attained fame, name, money, love and position in the industry, but one thing always bothered him and that was that, he had not been able to compose any song for Saigal or Noorjehan.
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Sajaniya kit bhaage
Posted on: June 4, 2013
This article is written by nahm, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
This is the fourth song from this film featuring in the blog. Actually, this will be the fourth and last Rafi song in the film.
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Aa jaa aa jaa o jaane waale
Posted on: May 25, 2013
This article is written by nahm, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
This song is there with for some time now. In fact I had saved the link long back, never got around to even writing down the lyrics. Than some days ago I chanced upon a link of Radio Cylon Rafi special programme on 31/07/2012. This song was the first to be played in that programme. I thought I know the song, so it must be posted. Lekin, jab song blog mein nahin milaa to iss ko aur andhere mein rakhnaa na insaafi hai.
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Aaoge na saajan aaoge na
Posted on: May 9, 2013
“Jaan Pehchaan” (1950) was an United Technicians Production. It was directed by Fali Mistry. The movie had Raj Kapoor, Nargis, Dulari, Amar, Mukri etc in it.
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Dukh se bhara hua hai dil
Posted on: May 7, 2013
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
In Hindi film industry, there were many artists – actors, playback singers, lyricists and music directors who after starting their careers soon faded into oblivion as they could not get on a firm footing in the industry. But there were some who remained with the film industry for a long time even though success eluded them. One of such artists was Shankar Dasgupta, playback singer and music director.
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“Beqasoor” (1950) was a Madhukar Pictures production. It was produced by M R Navalkar and directed by K Amarnath. The movie had Ajit, Madhubala, Pramila, Yakub, Mangla, Gope, Geeta Nizami, Ramesh, Durga Khote etc in it.
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“Beqasoor” (1950) was a Madhukar Pictures Production. It was produced by M R Navalkar and directed by K Amarnath. The movie had Ajit, Madhubala, Pramila, Yakub, Mangla, Gope, Geeta Nizami, Ramesh, Durga Khote etc in it.
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Meri veena ro rahi hai
Posted on: April 30, 2013
This article is written by Arunkumar Deshmukh, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Somewhere in the late 2011 AK ji, of Songsofyore.com, had written on this Blog about the importance of NFS. After reading his views, I too wrote a rather lengthy comment supporting the inclusion of NFS on this Blog. Our contention was that, prior to the Hindi Film Music becoming popular all over India,it was those ghazals, Geets and Bhajans, privately sung and recorded by various artists which had ruled the tastes of music lovers. In fact many famous singers had recorded NFS in the beginning phase of their singing careers. Some names are Talat Mehmood, Saigal, Pankaj Mullick, Jagmohan and JUTHIKA ROY !
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When I came to know that Shamshad Begam (14 april 1919- 23 april 2013) was no more, I decided to discuss some rare songs sung by her. Accordingly, I some rare songs sung by Shamshad Begam were discussed yesterday (24 april 2013). Those songs were rare, but their links were still available. It was only in one case that the link available contained incompele song and so I uploaded a complete version of the song to enable me to discuss that.
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