Archive for the ‘Songs of 1950s (1951 to 1960)’ Category
Main to chaloon rumjhum
Posted on: July 15, 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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6206 | Post No. : | 19163 |
Today’s song is from the Mythological film Navratri-1955.
Made by Bhagyodaya Pictures, Bombay, it was directed by Raman B. Desai. It was produced by R.U.Patel and Natwar Shyam. The music was by the king of Melody – Chitragupt, ably assisted by Dilip Dholakia. The cast of the film was Nirupa Roy, Manahar desai, Sapru, S.N.Tripathi, Lalita Pawar, Kumkum etc. Songs were by G.S.Nepali (6) and Bharat Vyas (2).
Two major actors, who featured in many religious films in Hindi were Manhar Desai and Shahu Modak. You may be surprised to know that both were Christians. Actors who were not Hindus and doing Hindu Gods’ roles in Hindi films, is not new. I remember, there was an actor, Syed Hasan Ali Zaidi aka Mijjan Miyan, with New Theatres, Calcutta. He did the role of Bhakta Pooran in a film with this title in 1933. Just before the release of the film, there were communal riots in Calcutta.
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Raja tere desh mein
Posted on: July 14, 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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6205 | Post No. : | 19161 |
Today’s song is from the film Naulaakha Haar-1953.
Making films on folklore – well known or less known – is easy, because a lot of liberties can be taken while making the film. There is no copyright or any authentic version of any folklore. The same story may circulate in different regions/states in a different garb. Film Naulaakha Haar-1953 was also based on the love story of Alha- Udal.
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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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6204 | Post No. : | 19158 |
Today’s song is from the Mythological film Navdurga-1953.
!953 was a year Music ruled the films. Various genres were tried by filmmakers to attract the audience. After the Partition, the new blood flowing in all sections of filmmaking was trying new ideas and experiments. However, in all these changes, one genre still ruled the audience and that was the Religious films. Besides the “Golden Era of Film Music”, the 50’s were also the decade for the religious films. From 1951 to 1960, for a period of 10 full years, as many as 124 Mythological films were made, averaging one new religious film every month for 10 continuous years.
Navdurga-1953 is a story of Navratri and the power of Maa Shakti in 9 different forms. Navratri, literally a celebration of nine nights, is a festival that actually occurs once in every quarter, i.e. four times a year. Of these, the celebration that occurs in the month of Chaitra and the month of Ashwin are the better known and more popular Navratri celebrations. The Chaitra navratri ends with the celebration of Ram Navami, the birthday of Lord Ram. The Ashwin Navratri is followed on the next day by Dushehra, the celebration of the victory of Lord Rama over Ravana, the King of Lanka. Besides these two, the navratri celebrations also occur in the months of Aashaad and Paush / Maagh. These are also called the Gupt Navratri, or the lesser known or secret Navratri.
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Jiskee laagee re lagan Bhagwaan mein
Posted on: July 8, 2025
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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6199 | Post No. : | 19143 |
#The Decade of Fifties – 1951 – 1960 #
“Sant Raghu-1957” was directed by Chandrakant for Kanak Productions, Bombay. It was produced by M.K. Kapadia. The cast of ‘Sant Raghu’ included Nirupa Roy, Anant Kumar, Ulhas, Bipin Gupta, Lalita Pawar, S.N. Tripathi, Manorama, Babu Raje, Tuntun, Mouju, Radheshyam, Bhagwan Sinha, R.S. Dubey, Champak Lala, Sheela Vaz, Rajkumar, Amrit and others. This movie ‘Sant Raghu’, which was passed by Censor Board on 03.07.1957, has eight songs written by Bharat Vyas. The music for this movie was composed by Avinash Vyas. There were six singers viz. Lata Mangeshkar, Geeta Dutt, Mohd Rafi, Sulochana Vyas, Manna Dey and Asha Bhonsle who gave their voices to the songs in this movie.
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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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6197 | Post No. : | 19136 |
#the Decade of Fifties –1951 – 1960 #
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In this post we listen to a song from the 1959 movie ‘Tin Tin Tin’. Tin-Tin-Tin-1959 made its debut on the blog on 12.08.2014 with its song ‘ jhoomti bahaar hai raat hai jawaan’. Two more songs from this movie were posted on 02.12.2020 and 24.04.2023. When I had shared the first song from this movie as a lyrics contributor in 2014, it was the only song from this movie that was available online at that time. Subsequently, other songs from this movie too have become available. Only audio of these songs are available and no videos of this movie are availaable.
‘Tin Tin Tin-1959’ was directed by B.J. Patel for ‘Kirit Films, Bombay’. This movie was passed by Censor Board on 06.08.1959. It was produced by Dhanpatrai. It had Ceasar (a dog trained by Jimmy Bharucha), Neelofar, Samar Roy, Mirajkar, Habib, Rajan Kapoor, Vishwa Mehra, Devchand, Moolchand, Bhudo Advani, Abdul Sattar, Tun Tun and others. This movie had five songs composed by Bulo C. Rani and written by Anand Bakshi (two songs) and Aziz Kashmiri (two songs). Lyricist is not known for one song.
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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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6193 | Post No. : | 19128 |
#the Decade of Fifties – 1951 – 1960 #
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The song under discussion is from the movie ‘Black Mailer-1959’. This movie was directed by Sultan for ‘Firdaus Films, Bombay’. This movie was passed by Censor Board on 25.05.1959. The cast of this movie had Amarnath, Shantakumari, Aruna, Anjum, Habib, Shyam, Genius, Funny Walker, Radheshyam, Johny Whisky, Bagla, Raju, Fazal Khan, Ghani, Sattar, Mohadle, M. Sandow, Zippy, Kanchanmala, Bande Hasan Qawwaal, Baby Rani, and others. Amrut Rana made a guest appearance in this movie.
Geet Kosh Vol-III (1951-1960) lists five songs for this movie. The lyricists for this movie are Bahar Ajmeri (three songs), Balram and Muzaffar Shahjahanpuri (one song each). Music for this movie was composed by Iqbal.
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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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6191 | Post No. : | 19124 |
#the Decade of Fifties – 1951 – 1960 #
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“Choron Ki Baaraat-1960” was directed by Pradeep Naiyyar for ‘K Pictures, Bombay’. It was produced by Charanjeet and passed by Censor Board on 22.08.1960. The cast of this movie had Amarnath, Nazi, Shaikh, Shakeela Bano Bhopali, Jani Babu Qawwal, George, Nemo, Meena, Darshan, Om Mota, Haroon, Daleep, Badshah, Gulab, Bahadur (the dog), Jeevankala, Rammohan, Master Sohan, Majnoo, Rajan Haksar, and others.
This movie has six songs written by Gulzar (as Gulzar Deenvi (one song), Naqsh Lyallpuri (one song), Farooq Kaiser (one song), Sajan Bihar and Aziz Ghazi. Lyricist’s name for one song is not known. The singers list for this movie includes Sudha Malhotra, Jani Babu Qawwaal, Mahendra Kapoor, S. Balbir, and Suman Kalyanpur.
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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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6186 | Post No. : | 19104 |
#the Decade of Fifties – 1951 – 1960 #
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Today’s song is from the movie ‘Sati Vaishalini-1959’. ‘Sati Vaishalini-1959’ was directed by Sadhu Singh for Rati Chitra, Mumbai. It was produced by P.N. Rangeen and passed by Censor Board on 19.11.1959. The cast of this movie has Trilok Kapoor, Sulochana, Lalita Pawar, Ratnamala, Krishnakumari, Niranjan Sharma, Nand Kishore, Tiwari, Shyam, Hari, Krishna Kumar, Roshanlal, and others. Heeralal, Sheela Kashmiri, Savita Chatterjee, Jyoti, Niranjan Tiwari and Kamal Kapoor had made guest appearances in this movie.
Hindi Film Geet Kosh Vol-III (1951-1960) mentions in the foot note of this movie page that this movie was also as known as ‘Janam Janam Ka Naata’ and the story of this movie was based on ‘Maarkandeya Puraan’.
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