Archive for the ‘Songs of 1950s (1951 to 1960)’ Category
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This article is the 19400th song post for the blog and 100th song post for Tanveer Naqvi as a lyricist.
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6268 | Post No. : | 19400 |
The blog keeps achieving various landmarks in due course of time. Some landmarks are more frequent than others. The blog completing a century of songs is the most noticeable and most frequent landmark. We have seen as many as 193 such landmarks. With this post, we arrive at the 194th blog century mark. Put simply, this song post is the song post number 19400 for the blog.
There are some other kind of century landmarks too that we achieve from time to time. One such landmark is century of songs by artists, or century of songs by guest contributors. As many as 85 artists (39 Music directors, 33 lyricists and 23 singers have touched century posts each. In some cases, these artists have even reached several thousands of posts. In other words they have achieved many centuries for themselves. For example, Lata Mangeshkar has more than 4000 song posts in the blog as a playback singer.
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This article is written by Avinash Scrapwala, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a contributor to this blog. This article is meant to be posted in atulsongaday.me. If this article appears in other sites without the knowledge and consent of the web administrator of atulsongaday.me, then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.
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6266 | Post No. : | 19392 |
#the Decade of Fifties – 1951 – 1960 #
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Today’s song is a qawwaalee song from the movie ‘Behraam Daaku-1959’. This movie had made its debut on the blog on 01.07.2017 with its song ‘betaab hai dil bechain nazar’ and later one more song ‘tere sitam ki daastaan’ was posted on 08.04.2018.
“Behram Daaku-1959” was directed by Akkoo for ‘Afzal Films, Bombay’. This movie was passed by Censor Board on 20.11.1959 (as mentioned in Geet Kosh Vol-III-1951-1960). It had Manhar Desai, Chitra, Sheikh, Ashraf Khan, Habib, Tuntun, Shyam Kumar, Raj Adib, Menka Kumari, Daraj, Sharda, Babulal, Ranjana and others in it. As mentioned by Shree Atul jee in his post while presenting the first song from this movie “Behram Daaku”(1959) is a rare movie with obscure songs.
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Teree nazar ne maaraa
Posted on: September 13, 2025
This article is written by Arunkumar Deshmukh, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a contributor to this blog. This article is meant to be posted in atulsongaday.me. If this article appears in other sites without the knowledge and consent of the web administrator of atulsongaday.me, then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.
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6266 | Post No. : | 19391 |
Today’s song is from an obscure film of the Golden Era – Sahil-1959.
Personally, I had never heard of this film. Though after Tumsa Nahi Dekha-1957, Shammi Kapoor had changed his looks – by removing his mustache, which never suited him – and style of acting, somehow this film never appealed to the viewers. I don’t even remember when it was in the theatres ! While going through the HFGK, I found the reason. It seems the film was made in 1955/56 and even the songs were recorded in 1954/55. For unknown reasons the film was censored on 8-4-1959 and was finally released in October 1959.
Since this film belonged to the period of Shammi Kapoor’s old style- with mustache – and by 1959-60 he was on a success ride, no one wanted to see this film. As such there was nothing notable in this film. The story was weak,the starcast was ordinary and the songs were not good enough to attract the audience. So the film flopped and disappeared from the theatres quickly.
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This article is written by Arunkumar Deshmukh, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a contributor to this blog. This article is meant to be posted in atulsongaday.me. If this article appears in other sites without the knowledge and consent of the web administrator of atulsongaday.me, then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.
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6265 | Post No. : | 19388 |
Today’s song is from a social film- Fashionable wife-1959.
Very few know that there was an interesting film of the same title- Fashionable wife in 1938 also. I called it interesting, because its Hero- Sardar Gul, came from Calcutta and did a role in the film Said e hawas-1936, made by Sohrab Modi’s film company ” Stage Films”. Sohrab Modi gave the Hero a screen name of Chandra Kumar. Actually, the film was only a shooting of the very popular stage play of the same name. Sardar Gul was promised Rs. 200 for this film. However the film flopped miserably and Modi refused to pay him more than Rs. 50 only. Enraged, he threw the money on Modi’s face and left for Calcutta. After 2 years he returned to Bombay, with a new screen name Anil Kumar and acted in the film Fashionable wife. He went on to do more than 30 films till 1964.
Similarly, the film Fashionable wife-1959 was also interesting. The heroine of the film- Jaymala was the wife of the producer director , B.K.Adarsh. She had done few films earlier, but being the wife of the producer she was made a Heroine, as it was all a ” Ghar ka mamla” ! She was neither very beautiful nor a very good actress. This is how Nepotism existed in Hindi films for a long time.
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Jai Gange jai puny tarange
Posted on: September 11, 2025
This article is written by Arunkumar Deshmukh, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a contributor to this blog. This article is meant to be posted in atulsongaday.me. If this article appears in other sites without the knowledge and consent of the web administrator of atulsongaday.me, then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.
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6264 | Post No. : | 19385 |
Today’s song is from a Mythological film Ganga Maiyaa-1955.
Produced by Chimanlal Trivedi, it was directed by Chandrakant Gaur and the music was provided by the veteran of such films- Shankar Rao Vyas. The cast of the film was Prem Adib, Sumitra Devi,Asha Mathur, D.k.Sapru, Bipin Gupta, S.N.Tripathi, Shakuntala Devi, Jeevan, Vithaldas Panchotiya and many others. Guest artist was Trilok Kapoor.
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This article is written by Avinash Scrapwala, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a contributor to this blog. This article is meant to be posted in atulsongaday.me. If this article appears in other sites without the knowledge and consent of the web administrator of atulsongaday.me, then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.
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6261 | Post No. : | 19368 |
#the Decade of Fifties – 1951 – 1960 #
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Today 8th September 2025 is the 92nd birthday of of legendary singer Asha Bhonsle(born on 08.09.1933). On this occasion I sharing a few songs sung by Asha Bhonsle.
Asha Bhonsle a living legend needs no introductions on a blog which deals with Hindi Film Songs and NFS. There is nothing new left for me to add as far as her biography is concerned.
The song under discussion here is from an un-released movie ‘Do Dost-1960’.
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This article is written by Arunkumar Deshmukh, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a contributor to this blog. This article is meant to be posted in atulsongaday.me. If this article appears in other sites without the knowledge and consent of the web administrator of atulsongaday.me, then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.
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6261 | Post No. : | 19367 |
Today’s song is from a Mythological film – Naag Panchami-1953.
What do we know about snakes, in general ? Whenever and wherever a snake is found, the tendency is to kill it. Humans have an inherent fear about snakes. Not all snakes are poisonous or venomous and very few are capable of killing humans with their venoms. Out of all the 3500 known snake species only 20 % are venomous and only 7 % can kill humans, as per a study. Actually, snakes are very useful creatures, particularly for the farmers. They eat rats-who destroy the standing crops and stored grains. Non-Venomous snakes are eaten with relish in China and some other countries in the Far East.
The king of snakes- Vasuki, according to Mythology was born to Sage Kashyap and wife Kadru. Vasuki is considered as the leader of all snakes in the Naag Lok. Vasuki was so long and strong that he was used as a rope for Samudra Manthan by Gods and Asurs. The elder brother of Vasuki-Sheshnag balances the universe on its head He is also used as a bed for Lord Vishnu. The younger brother Vasuki adorns the neck of Lord Shiva.
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This article is written by Arunkumar Deshmukh, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a contributor to this blog. This article is meant to be posted in atulsongaday.me. If this article appears in other sites without the knowledge and consent of the web administrator of atulsongaday.me, then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.
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6260 | Post No. : | 19364 |
Today’s song is from a C grade Costume film ‘ Taj aur Talwar’-1956.
1956 was the Silver Jubilee year of Indian Talkie Films. This year, the most successful films were entertainers. There were of course some films carrying social messages. One of them was ‘Jaagte Raho’ (‘Ek Din Ratre’ in Bangla), which tried to bring out the upper middle class hypocrisy in a metro city like Bombay. Initially, the film did not make any ripples, but after it won International awards, it became very popular. (People of other nations have to tell us that our film is good !). A social message, excellent music and solid story – the hallmarks of an RK film were all there in it.
Then, the film ‘Ek Hi Raasta’ tackled the issue of widow re-marriage and acceptance of a new father by the child. Comedy entertainer ‘Nai Dilli’ emphasized the need for inter language marriages in India. Satyajit Ray’s ‘Aparajita’- the sequel to ‘Pather Panchali’ (1955), hit the screens in India after winning accolades internationally.
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