Archive for the ‘Songs of 1950’ Category
Abhi shaam aayegi niklenge taare
Posted on: March 13, 2011
“Samaadhi”(1950) was a movie starring Ashok Kumar and Nalini Jaiwant. Few people today may be bothered about its story, but what songs this movie had ! Absolutely timess songs and a few of them in fact continue to influence Hindi movie songs even today. For instance, the song Gore gore o baanke chhore(Samadhi) is still popular among musical plagiarists for their remixing. When it comes to a patriotic song,Kadam kadam badhaaye jaa (Samadhi) is as iconic as they come.
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Man mor huaa matwaalaa
Posted on: February 28, 2011
“Afsar”(1950) is a movie that starred the hot pair of Suraiyya and Dev Anand. This movie was a box office hit and a musical hit as well.
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When I was growing up as a kid in late 1960s and early 1970s, I noticed that old movie makers tended to give their movies the same title as the titles of new movies. 🙂 When radio announcer announced songs from “Andaaz”, “Aankhen”,”Aarzoo”,”Adaalat”, “Parwarish” etc, I expected to listen to songs from the newer movies of 1960s and 1970s and I was very upset when the songs played were from old movies of 1940s and 1950s, which were boring by my definition.
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Chaley ranz dekar
Posted on: February 21, 2011
Here is a song that I had never heard before. Of course there is nothing new in that. There are so many songs that I have never heard before.
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Saajnaa din bahure hamaare
Posted on: January 1, 2011
I take pride in the fact that we have a good collection of some great, yet rare compositions in one place in this blog. For instance, this blog is a one stop place for the biggest number of Sajjad Hussain compositions.
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“Dilruba” (1950) has some awesome songs in it. In fact I have discussed as many as five songs from this movie. In fact I was so impressed with one song ( Dhak dhak karti chali jeewan ki rail re )of this movie that I had posted that as the 2000th song of this blog.
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“Jogan” (1950) is a movie starring Cast: Anwari, Dilip Kumar, Manju, Nargis, Pratima Devi, Rajendra Kumar, Tabassum etc in it. I have discussed two songs from this movie in the past, including the timeless Meera Bhajan Ghoonghat ke pat khol re .
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Some times name of the movie gives you an idea what to expect. If the title of a movie begins with the adjective “Chhoti” and it is followed by a common noun depicting a female person then you can expect a movie full of sacrifices and sad songs. Movie makers have left no such combination unused while choosing titles for their movies.
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It is unbelievable how songs composed three/four generations ago could sound so fresh even today, sixty years later, long after most people involved in creating them may have left the scene.
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Aayi bahaar jiyaa dole moraa
Posted on: December 10, 2010
I was aware of “Aarzoo” (1965) which was a musical blockbuster. Then I became aware of another movie of this name that came in 1950 and I found the songs of this movie “boring”. In fact, that is what happened with me for songs of movies with similar names.Being a youngster growing in 1970s, I liked music of “Andaaz”(1971),”Adalat” (1976) , “Parvarish”(1977) and disliked music of older movies with same name and wondered why older generation created such “boring” music.
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