Archive for the ‘Songs of 1950s (1951 to 1960)’ Category
Amma roti de baba roti de
Posted on: April 12, 2013
“Sansaar” (1951) was a Gemini Pictures production. It was directed by S S Vasan. Most actors of this movie were from South Indian movie industry. The movie had Ishwarlal, M. K. Radha, Vanaja, Mohana, Agha, Meera, J. S. Kashyap, Anil Kumar, Kalla, Ratnappa, Pushpavalli, Swaraj, David Abraham etc in it.
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This article is written by Khyati Bhatt, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
“Chaand” (1959) movie was produced by Kuldip Sehgal, who had other movies like Dost-54, Panchayat-58, Shama-61 and few more to his credit. The movie was written and directed by Lekhraj Bhakri. These two also worked together in movies like Sahara-58, Panchayat-58, Shama-61, Ma Beta-62. (IMDb info- please correct if wrong).
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Shaam ke deepak jaley
Posted on: April 10, 2013
This article is wtitten by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
It is such a frustrating exercise to get information on a poet-lyricist whom I admire for his light romantic and neo-devotional lyrics of Hindi non-filmy songs. Yes, many connoisseurs of Hindi NFSs may have correctly guessed him as Madhukar Rajasthani. I got familiar with his name only because of Vividh Bharati. It is surprising that not much information about him is available on the internet or in any other published materials. There was a time when at least one of the songs written by him used to be played in an early morning programme of devotional songs or in the afternoon programme of sugam sangeet (light semi-classical songs).
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Kyaa paaya duniya ne
Posted on: April 9, 2013
“Darbaar” (1955) was a Golden Movie production. It was directed by V Vakil. The movie had Mahipal, Chitra, Sunder, Tiwari, Kammo, Kamal, Niranjan Sharma etc in it, which suggests that it was a B grade movie.
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Tu ishq se darr
Posted on: April 9, 2013
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
GUNAAH (1953) was produced under the banner of Ambitious Pictures and directed by Kidar Sharma. The star cast included Jagdev, Geeta Bali, Vijay Laxmi, Jankidas, Pratima Devi, A S Gyani, Pesi Patel, Baby Naaz, Tun Tun etc. The film had seven songs of which two songs have been covered in the blog. All the songs were written by Kidar Sharma. Of the 7 songs, Snehal Bhatkar composed six songs and Roshan composed one ghazal “mere khayaalon mein aake gale laga jaa mujhe”.
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Ho door desh se aa jaa re
Posted on: April 8, 2013
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog. This is his 200th writeup in the blog.
SHOKHIYAN (1951) was produced and directed by Kidar Sharma under the banner of Ambitious Pictures. The star cast included Premnath, Suraiya, Jeewan, Kamlesh Kumari, Nazira, Shanta Kanwar, Achala Sachdev, Ramesh Sinha etc. There were 8 songs in the film of which 6 were penned by Kidar Sharma and remaining two songs by his brother Himmat Rai Sharma. Kidar Sharma was impressed with Jamal Sen’s classical and Rajasthani folk tunes he demonstrated to him and thus got the music direction of the film.
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“Chandrasena” (1959) was a Basant Pictures production. It was directed by Babubhai Mistry. The movie had Mahipal, Girija, Paul Sharma, B M Vyas, Krishna Kumari etc in it.
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“Ghar Ghar Mein Diwaali” (1955) was a Minerva Movietone movie. It was directed by Jagirdar. The movie had Eruch Tarapore, Jagirdar, Shyama, Sajjan, Manorama etc in it.
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