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Archive for the ‘Songs of 1950s (1951 to 1960)’ Category


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Here is yet another melodious song- that sounds rather like a Bhajan from the 50s. The film is Fashion-57. It is sung by Lata and Hemant kumar.
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Today (16th October 2016) is the birth anniversary of Chitragupt, yesteryear music composer.

It would not be an exaggeration to say that Chitragupt is one of the most under-rated composers of the Hindi film industry. When you think of composers of the golden era of Hindi music, the names that come readily to mind are Naushad, SD Burman, Shankar Jaikishen, OP Nayyar, C. Ramachandra, Roshan, Salil Chaudhary, Hemant Kumar , Madan Mohan etc. Maybe even Ravi.
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“Grihlaxmi”(1959) was produced and directed by Raman V Desai for Bombay Movietone, Bombay. The movie had Shahu Modak, Pandhari Bai, Lalita Pawar, Kumari Nazar, Rooplaxmi, Miss Kala, Indira Bansal, Ramavtaar, Raj, Umakant, Pravin Paul, Devendra, Suryakant shukla, Polson, Bhairav, Vipin Gupta etc in it.
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Yesterday (15 october 2016) was the birth anniversary of Shri Harish Raghuvanshi, HFM enthusiast etraordinaire. He was born on 15 october 1949 in Palghar. After completing his education in Mumbai, he shifted to Surat in 1967 and joined his family business there in 1968.
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“Patraani”(1956) was produced by Shankarbhai Bhatt and directed by his younger brother Vijay Bhatt for Prakash Pictures. The movie had Vyjayantimala, Pradeep Kumar, Omprakash, Shashikala, Durga Khote, David, Jeevan etc. in it. The movie was based on a novel by Kanhaiyalal Munshi.
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“Sati Vaishaalini”(1959) aka “Janam Janam Ka Naata” was a mythological movie with a tale from Markandeya Puraan. It was produced by P N Rangeen and directed by Sadhu Singh for Rati chitra, Bombay. The movie had Trilok Kapoor, Sulochana, lalita Pawar, Ratnamala, Krishna Kumari, Niranjan Sharma, Nand Kishore, Tiwari, Shyam, Hari, Krishna Kumar, Roshanlal etc, with Hiralal, Shiela Kashmiri, Savita Chatterji, Jyoti, Niranjan Tiwari and Kamal Kapoor in guest appearances.
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Though the decade of 1950s is the most well represented decade in the blog, still there are so many melodious songs of the 50s that are yet to be discussed on this Blog. Today’s song is also one such sweet Lata song which was quite popular during its time. It is a solo song Baghi Sipahi-1958, a costume film by V.P.Productions. It was produced by a person who had given us gems like Patanga-49, Sagai-51 and other such films as Aurat, Badal, Laadla, Parbat etc etc, which had become hits. His name is Bhagwandas Varma.
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AAG KA DARIYA (1953) was produced and directed by Roop K Shorey. The star cast included Karan Diwan and Meena Shorey in the lead roles with Majnu, Satish Batra, Prithviraj Kapoor, Shammi, Uma Dutt, Johny Walker, Kumud Tripathi etc in supporting roles. As per Wikipedia, the film belonged to the genre of melodramatic love story. The title of the film reminded me of a she’r of Jigar Muradabadi which reads as under:

Ye ishq nahin aasaan itna to samajh leeje
Ek aag ka dariya hai aur doob ke jaana hai

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‘Phir milenge jaanewaale yaar dasvidaaniyaa…’

Some people contend that to say ‘good bye’ is to die a little. Readers may wonder why a post introducing a song should begin with this statement.
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“Ilzaam”(1954) was produced and directed by R C Talwar. The movie had Meena Kumari, Kishore Kumar, Shammi, Randheer, Meera Devi, Amar, Jagdish Kamal, Om Prakash, Jagdish Sethi etc in it.
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