Archive for the ‘Songs of 1950s (1951 to 1960)’ Category
Main hirni si ban ban phiroon
Posted on: December 11, 2013
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“Bhola Shankar” (1951) was directed by Vishram Bedekar for Famous pictures. The movie had Mahipal, Prem Adib, Vijayalaxmi, Sadhna Bose, Sheela Naik, Ranjana etc in it.
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Ae duniya ke maalik tu bata
Posted on: December 10, 2013
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The 7th song in the series “Gems from obscure films’ is from the film-Baghdad ka Chor-1955-a story lifted from Arabian Nights. It is sung by Mukesh under the baton of composer B.N.Bali.
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This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog. This article is meant to be posted in atulsongaday.me. If this article appears in sites like lyricstrans.com and ibollywoodsongs.com etc then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.
BAHU BETI (1952) seems to be an obscure film which was produced under the banner of Kesar Films and directed by C L Dheer. The main cast included Geeta Bali and Amarnath in the lead roles with Vijaylaxmi, Jaswant, Leela Mishra, Rashid Khan etc in the supporting roles. There are 8 songs in the film written by Kaifi Azmi (7) and Vishwamitra Adil (1) which were set to music by S D Batish. Incidentally, the film’s director C L Dheer was the father of TV and film actor Pankaj Dheer (‘Karna’ of Mahabharat) and the grandfather of film actor Nikitin Dheer who has acted in films like ‘Jodha Akbar’ (2008) and ‘Chennai Express’ (2013).
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Gori tere liye sabka jiya doley
Posted on: December 9, 2013
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This is the 6th song in the series “Gems from obscure films”. This one is really a vintage Gem, a song sung by Kishore kumar in his early years for the film SHAMSHEER-53 under the baton of Arunkumar Mukherjee.
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Yoonhi huye badnaam sanwariya
Posted on: December 8, 2013
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Since time immemorial, classical and semi-classical ( thumri, dadra, khayal etc,) music have been the privilege mainly of the higher strata of the society. As such, they have not been as popular as the film music as the latter has a wider reach. Then we have the legacy and a rich heritage of regional folk music which remained within the confines of the respective regions. However, with the advent of talkies and playback singing from early 1930s, film songs based on the classical ragas, semi-classical and folk tunes have played a major role in popularising these genres of Indian music especially during the golden era of the film music. In a way, films have become the catalyst for providing equal opportunity to all across India to access music.
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O cycle waale baabu
Posted on: December 7, 2013
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“Ajeeb Ladki” (1952) was a Tajmahal Pictures Production. It was directed by Mohammad Ehsan. The movie had Rehman, Naseem Bano, Cuckoo, Shashikala, Agha, Jayant, Shyam Kumar, etc in it.
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Rukhsat e duniya teri mehfil
Posted on: December 6, 2013
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Today (6 december 2013) is the death anniversary of singer-music director Arun Kumar Mukherji. I came to know of this fact from the Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation’s “Puraani Filmom ke Geet” programme of today. In this programme, they sought to play only songs of Arun Kumar Mukherji except the last song, which is always a K L Saigal song.
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Ae kaari koyaliya ab kaahe ko
Posted on: December 6, 2013
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“Sapna” (1952) was directed by Kidar Sharma for Hindustan production company. The movie had Kishore Sahu, Bina Rai, Cuckoo, Shakuntala, Moni C., Hiralal, Rani Chanda, Narbada Shanker, Paul Sharma etc in it.
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