Archive for the ‘Songs of 1950s (1951 to 1960)’ Category
Duniya kya hai dafa karo
Posted on: October 1, 2013
“Sarhad”(1960) was an Alankar Chitra Production movie. This forgotten movie had an unusual starcast, consisting of Dev Anand, Raagini, Suchitra Sen, Sajjan, Lalita Pawar etc.
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“Samaaj” (1954) was produced by Ashok Kumar and directed by Vasant Joglekar. This movie had Ashok Kumar, Anup Kumar, Sumati Gupte, Shashikala, Usha Kiran, Agha, Leela Misra, Samson, N. Hussain etc in it.
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Khuli hawaa mein doley re
Posted on: September 30, 2013
“Champakali” (1957) was a Filmistan Production. It was directed by Nandlal Jaswantlal. The movie had Bharat Bhushan, Suchitra Sen, Pran, Mubarak, Shobha Khote, S. L. Puri, Mumtaz Begum, Ram Avtaar etc in it.
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Today (28 september 2013) is the 84th birth anniversary of Lata Mangeshkar (DOB 28 september 1929). On this occasion, we will discuss a few songs sung by her.
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This article is written by Bharat Upadhyay, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular to this blog.
DO SITARE-1951, a Famous Picture presentation was produced and directed by D D Kashyap, who also wrote its Story. Screenplay were by Rajinder Singh Bedi. The star cast consisted of Dev Anand, Suraiya, Premnath, Mumtaz, Shakuntala, Kuldip Kaur, Niranjan Sharma, Baij Sharma etc. The film had Lyrics by Rajinder Krishan and Music by Anil Biswas.
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This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
In September 1988, Doordarshan National channel started telecasting what was to become the stupendously popular serialization of the renowned epic ‘Mahabharat’. And for a period of almost two years (94 Sundays), an audience of almost 20 crore Indians would be glued to the TV sets. And in every episode, the audience was greeted with the rendition of the title song and shlokas, and the every episode was bid good bye with a verse that summarized the story, the state of affairs, and the learnings from the particular episode. These opening and ending title song and verses came through the telecast riding on the booming voice of the one and the only singer who could have made the impact with his voice. His rendition of the opening word ‘Mahaaa-Bhaaarat’ is now etched in the aural memory of the viewers. The voice that had the power to shake a thunder. Mahendra Kapoor – the only voice that could make it happen.
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This article is written by nahm, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
I did say in my last post of ‘N’ song that I will quickly move on to the next alphabet. But this post has got inadvertantly delayed at my level. The reason is my hectic schedule, which has made me a frequent traveller. Things are a bit crazy and and unsettled. I am one of those who hates travel. But then if the situation demands that you leave the comforts of home and be a backpacker, so be it. Hopefully, next month is going to be better than the last few months, with things resolved on one front at least which has taken me out of town thrice in two months.
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“Blackmailer” (1959) is one of the more obscure movies of all time, it would seem. The only information that I am able to gather about this movie is that it was a Firdaus Films production and that it had Amar Nath, Shanta Kumari and Habib.
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