Archive for the ‘Songs of 1950’ Category
Mujhe sach sach bataa do
Posted on: October 6, 2009
When “Neki aur Badi” (1949), the first movie of Roshan as a music director flopped, the sensitive music director was so disappointed that he reportedly wanted to commit suicide. Kidar Sharma, who gave him his first break, gave him his second break too, in “Baawre Nain” (1950). The songs of this movie became popular and Roshan, as they say, never looked back since.
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Mohabbat ke maaron ka haal
Posted on: October 5, 2009
In “Baawre Nain” (1950), Mukesh did the playback singing for the hero (Raj Kapoor) whereas Raj Kumari and Geeta Dutt sang for Geeta Bali, the heroine. But they were not the only playback singers in this movie.
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“Baawre Nain” (1950) was the second movie as a music director for Roshan. Learning from his mistakes as a music director in his first movie, Roshan made amends, and came up with such an amazing musical score in this movie that the brand name of Roshan was launched with this movie. Till today, his descendents have been using the name Roshan ( which was the first name of Roshalal Nagrath) as a surname and as a brand name. And this brand name first got recognition in 1950 with this movie.
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Duniya badal gayi
Posted on: October 3, 2009
I am aware that “Babul” (1950) had Dilip Kumar and Nargis in lead roles. So I was confused when I watched this song from “Babul”. I had no difficulty identifying Dilip Kumar singing in Talat Mehmood’s voice, but who was the lady. she looked unfamiliar. And she did not look like Nargis.
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Bollywood movies and Indian Railways are two of the major unifying factors for this vast nation of India. And these two often come face to face. We have people sitting in railway trains and singing songs (ask beggars on local trains) and on the other hand we have movies depicting songs sung in trains.
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Kitni sach hai ye baat re
Posted on: September 27, 2009
“Mashaal” (1950) was a musical blockbuster which had some very nice songs. For example, ‘Upar gagan vishaal”, which announced the arrival of Manna Dey as a playback singer, was from this movie.
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Mera naram karejwaa dol gayaa
Posted on: September 23, 2009
There have been several movies called “Aarzoo”. There was one “Aarzoo” in 1966 where Shankar Jaikishan’s hit music had helped the movie become a big box office success. There was another movie of this name that was released in 1951. This movie had songs of different genre and they too had become popular in their times.
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Raat hai taaron bhari
Posted on: September 23, 2009
When one talks of a movie called “Pardes”, one may be reminded of a recent movie (recent by the standards of this blog) that was released in 1997. But the first movie of this name was released as far back as in 1950.
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Naina deewaane ek nahin maane
Posted on: September 23, 2009
I keep mentioning repeatedly that there are countless gems lying there that have been forgotten with time.
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I have posted a couple of songs from “Dilruba” (1950) in the past. This movie, which is largely forgotten by now, had Dev Anand and Rehana in lead roles along with Yakub and others.
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