Archive for the ‘Songs of 1950s (1951 to 1960)’ Category
Jab sur alag ho saaz se
Posted on: May 4, 2017
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Gopal Singh Nepali (11 aug 1911-17 april 1963) was born in Bettiah (Bihar). He made his mark in Hindi literature at a young age. His first poem “Bharat Gagan Ke Jagmag Sitaare” was published in 1930 in a children’s magazine edited by Ramvrikshh Benipuri.
Gopal Singh Nepali had made his mark as a poet and he would get invited in kavi sammelans. It is in 1944 that he arrived Bombay to participate in an all Indian kavi sammelan. Sashdhar Mukherji was present in the audience and he was impressed with Gopal Singh Nepali’s poems. Filmistan owner Seth Tularam Jalan signed him up for a four years long contract at Rs 200 per month.
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Husn yahaan ishq wahaan
Posted on: May 1, 2017
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“Jallaad”(1956) was produced and directed by J B Lulla for Filmdom, Bombay. This B grade movie had Munawwar Sultana, Veena, Nasir, Tiwari, S Nazeer, Heera Sawant, Dabboo, Nagpal, Dhanraj, Sheila Vaz, Gope etc in it.
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“Mahasati Savitri”(1955) was produced by R N Mandloi and directed by Ramnik Vaidya for Shree Omkareshwar Productions, Bombay. This mythological movie had Nirup Roy, Mahipal S N tripathi, B M Vyas, Umakant, Charubala, Anjali Devi, Shree Bhagwan, Nimbalkar, Amirbai Karnataki, Babu Raje, Indira Bansal, Anand Prabhu etc, with Neeru in guest appearance.
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“Mohabbat Ki Jeet”(1960) was produced and directed by B S Ranga for Vikram Productions, Madras. This movie had Raja Sulochana, Ranjan, Sowcar Janki, Sriram, Rajagopal etc in it. It appears from the cast that this movie may have been a remake of some South Indian movie though HFGK is silent about this fact.
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Ye kaise yog liya sarkaar
Posted on: April 28, 2017
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“Guru Ghantaal”(1956) was produced by R N Sharma and N K Kaushik and directed by S M Yusuf for V K Pictures, Bombay. This movie had Shiela Ramani, Motilal, Usha Kiran, Agha, Sundar, Mirza Musharraf, Paro, Sheikh, Kesri, Vijaybala, Ravikant , Jagdev etc in it.
According to HFGK, there were nine songs in the movie. Two songs from the movie have been covered in the blog.
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Duniya pakki four twenty
Posted on: April 28, 2017
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Today’s song is from the film Basant-60. Its namesake film Basant was made in 1942 as well. But in matters of success, both films were opposite to each other. Basant-42, directed by Amiya Chakrawarty , was a successful film, having well known actors and Music Director. Basant-60 in contrast was not so much successful. It was not liked by people, though the lead actors were well known. Nutan was already acclaimed but Shammi Kapoor had yet to come to his elements which he would do with the film Junglee-61. He was still struggling with ‘ Hum sab chor hain ‘ and ‘ Tumsa nahi dekha ‘ acting styles.
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