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


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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6081 Post No. : 18872

Today’s song is the last song of the film Sardar-1955.

The film was made by the Gyan Mukherjee productions, Bombay, by its owner- Producer Gyan Mukherjee, who also directed this film. The film is unique in the sense that this was the only Hindi film, for which the famous singer Jagmohan Sursagar gave the music. Yes, the same famous singer of NFS – Jagmohan Sursagar. The cast of the film was Ashok Kumar, Bina Rai, Tiwari, Nigar Sultana, Jagdish Sethi, Rama Shukul, Murad, Iftikhar, Mehmood and many others. There was a Guest Artiste – Nana Palshikar.
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This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, 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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6080 Post No. : 18871

Nanubhai Vakil (B.A., LL.B.) was an old timer in Indian film industry who commenced his filmy career as a director with a silent film in 1929. By 1932, he had directed as many as 21 silent films. His first talkie film as a director was ‘Narsinh Mehta’ (1932) which also happened to be the first talkie film in Gujarati. He has directed over 50 Hindi films most of which belonged to action, stunts, fantasy and costume genres of films. He directed his last Hindi film, ‘Alam Ara’ (1971) which he had earlier directed in 1956. In both these films, W M Khan donned the same role which he had done in India’s first talkie film, ‘Alam Ara’ (1931). He has also produced six Hindi films and W M Khan acted in all these films.
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This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, 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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6079 Post No. : 18870

‘Mr Sampat’ (1952) was produced and directed by S S Vasan under the banner of Gemini Pictures. The film starred Motilal in the title role of Mr Sampat with Padmini, Vanaja, Sundari Bai, Swaraj, Agha, Kanhaiyalal, Badriprasad, Kailash Nath, J S Casshyap, B S Kalla etc. This was Padmini’s first Hindi film in a lead role. The film was adapted from R K Narayan’s novel, ‘Mr Sampat – Printer of Malgudi’ (1949). It is a satirical film.
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6077 Post No. : 18868

When one looks at Hindi movies, one realises that the dominant genres of Hindi movies keep changing with time. In the early decades of 1930, fantasy movies and mythological movies ruled the roost. From late 1940s, melancholic movies became popular.

In 1950s, crime movies, inspired from similar movies made in the west, began to be made by Hindi movie makers. Then we saw lost and found stories in 1960s, and angry young man stories in 1970s and so on.

One notices that the music in crime movies of 1950s were also inspired from west. In some cases, tunes were lifted from western tunes. Since information age was nowhere in sight those days unlike now so movie makers could get away from plagiarisation with impunity in most cases. Even otherwise, western instruments came into usage in Hindi movie magic that were used to create not only western style music but also desi style music.
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This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, 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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6075 Post No. : 18866

Today, March 6, 2025, is the 7th Remembrance Day of Shammi Aunty (26/04/1929 – 06/03/2018). Her trade mark smile with a cheerful face which many of us have seen during her six decades of filmy career, masked her chequered life – both personal and professional. The tough life which she had gone through in her childhood made her to accept any type of roles out of the financial necessity. That made Shammi to act in various genre of roles. In the event, she became more well-known in her character roles than her lead/second lead roles of early 1950s.
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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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6074 Post No. : 18863

Today’s song is from the comedy film ” Mr. Cartoon, M.A.-” 1958.

What a coincidence ! Last Sunday, I had selected a song from this film to be discussed today (usually I line up 3-4 songs for writing posts). However, the same song was discussed by our Sadanand Kamath ji, on Monday, 3rd March. Instead of going for another film song, I selected the only remaining song from this film for today’s post. Being the last song of the film, it will make the film YIPPEED today !
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This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, 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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6072 Post No. : 18861

Mr Qartoon MA (1958) was produced and directed by Ved and Madan for Natraj Productions. The cast included Johny Walker, Shyama, Mehmood, Kumkum, Raj Mehra, Baij Sharma, Sheila Vaz, Daljeet, Chandabai, Ranjana, Rajan Haksar etc. Minoo Mumtaz appeared in a guest role as a dancer. The story of the film was written by the well-known novelist and short storywriter, Krishan Chander.
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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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6064 Post No. : 18849

Today’s song is from a Hindi film made in Madras – Chandirani-1953.

This usual costume film was made by Bharani productions, a banner owned by the film’s director P.Bhanumathi and her producer husband Ramkrishna. Music was by the pair C.R.Subbaraman and his assistant Vishwanathan. The cast of the film included P.Bhanumathi, N.T.Rama Rao (aka NTR), S.V.Ranga Rao, Agha, Amarnath (Bharadwaj), A.Nageshwar Rao (ANR), Miss Tulsi, Hemalatha and others. The film was made in Hindi, Tamil and Telugu simultaneously.
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6059 Post No. : 18840

“Talwaar Ka Dhani” (1956) was directed by Dwarka Khosla for Vikas Production, Bombay. The movie had Nadira, Manhar Desai, B. M. Vyas, Pakku, Anwar Hussain, Shammi, Neeru, Dalpat, Sulochana (Ruby Meyers), Kammo, Maruti (Parab) etc. in it.
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This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, 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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6053 Post No. : 18832

‘Talaash’ (1957) was produced by Daulatram and I M Anand and was directed by Vishram Bedekar. The star cast included Ashok Kumar, Beena Rai, Ameeta, Raj Mehra, Mridula, Radhika, Chaman Puri, Bhushan Tiwari, Nazir Kashmiri, Heera Sawant etc. Gajanan Jagirdar and Yakub made their guest appearances in the film.
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