Archive for the ‘Songs of 1950s (1951 to 1960)’ Category
Ho been waale
Posted on: March 28, 2013
The last time I heard radio on a regular basis was in early 1980s, viz more than three decades ago. I continued to listen to radio for some more time during 1980s but only sporadically and things were never really the same again as far as radio listening was concerned.
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Ae dil e naashaad tera shukriya
Posted on: March 28, 2013
“Aab e Hayaat” (1955) was a Filmistan Production. It was directed by Ramanlal Desai. The movie had Premnath, Shashikala, Helen, Smriti Biswas, Pran, Ameeta, Mubarak, S L Puri, P Kailash etc in it.
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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.
Shammi Kapoor had acted in over a dozen films as a lead actor in early 50s, most of which flopped at the box office. Chor Bazaar (1954) was one film. It was produced under the banner of All India Pictures and it was directed by P N Arora. The star cast included Shammi Kapoor, Sumitra Devi, Chitra, Om Prakash, Kammo, Amir, Cuckoo. Parshuram etc with a guest appearance by Wasti. This film had six songs all written by Shakeel Badayuni and set to music by Sardar Malik. I remembered the name of this film only because of an immortal song “huyi ye hamse naadaani teri mehefil mein aa baithhe” from this film which I had heard on my younger days on radio. Recently, I had seen this film on the VCD that I have with me. As usual with almost all VCDs of old films, the film lacks continuity in some places because of lots of cuts. I did not find one song ” Har dar ki thokerein hain” sung by Lata Mangeshkar in the VCD.
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Holi ki aayi bahaar
Posted on: March 27, 2013
“Anjaan” (1956) was an All India Pictures production. It was directed by M Sadiq. The movie had Pradeep Kumar, Vyjayantimala, Jeevan, Raj Mehra, Minoo Mumtaz, Shammi, Helen, Johnny Walker, Mubarak etc in it.
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Holi khele Nandlala biraj mein
Posted on: March 27, 2013
“Raahi” (1953) was a Naya Sansaar Production movie. It was directted by K A Abbas. The movie had Dev Anand, Nalini Jaiwant, Habib Tanvir, Balraj Sahni, K. Sethi, Manmohan Krishnan, Achla Sachdev, S. Michael, Rasheed, Shaukat Hashmi, David Abraham etc in it.
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Dil mein hamaare chhup jaa
Posted on: March 26, 2013
“Police” (1958) was a Deep and Sandeep productions movie. It was directed by Kalidas. The movie had Pradeep Kumar, Madhubala, Raj Mehra, Dhumal, Om Prakash, Anwar, Nadira etc in it.
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“Laila Majnu” (1953) was an All India Production movie. It was directed by K Amarnath. The movie had Nutan and Shammi Kapoor in title roles, with Ratan Kumar, Ulhas, Begum Para, Kammo, Wasti etc also there in supporting roles.
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Sach sach sach o dear sach sach
Posted on: March 23, 2013
Though most Hindi movies of 1950s and 1960s had “mainstream” story lines, but a few comedy movies too were produced during that era. Quite a few of these movies had Kishore Kumar in the lead roles. Then there were some other actors who too were making their marks as comedy actors. I S Johar was one such actor.
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O goriye o poriye o chhoriye
Posted on: March 22, 2013
“Madam XYZ” (1959) was a Neo Lite Films production. It was directed by Nanabhai Bhatt. The movie had Bhagwan, Suresh, Shakila, Nalini Chonker, Shammi, Sudesh, Purnima, Kumar, Manju, David Abraham, Pran etc in it.
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Ae dard e jigar mere dard e jigar
Posted on: March 21, 2013
“Parchhaain” (1952) was a Rajkamal Pictures Production. It was produced and directed by V Shantaram. The movie had V Shantaram, Sandhya, Jayshree, Lalita Pawar, Wasti, G. Nirula, Shams Lucknavi, Saroj, Baran, Nimbalkar etc in it.
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