Archive for the ‘Songs of 1950s (1951 to 1960)’ Category
Din chhup gaya nikle taare
Posted on: February 19, 2013
“Anjaan” (1956) an All India Pictures Production movie. It was directed by M Sadiq. The movie had Pradeep Kumar, Vyjyantimala, Jeevan, Raj Mehra, Minoo Mumtaz, Shammi, Helen, Johnny Walker, Mubarak etc in it.
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“Baap Re Baap”(1955) was a Kardar Production movie. It was produced and directed by A R Kardar. The movie had Kishore Kumar, Chand Usmani, Smriti Biswas, Jayant, Ulhas, Maruti, Leela Misra, Banerji etc in it.
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Jo kuchh hamen kehna hai
Posted on: February 16, 2013
“Sabzbaagh”(1951) was a Nirmal Pictures Production movie. It was directed by Aziz Kashmiri. The movie had Shekhar, Nimmi, Cuckoo, Pran, Khanjar, Chand Burque, Rashid Khan, Om Prakash, Suraiya Choudhary, Kamal Kapoor, Majnu etc in it.
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Janam janam ke phere
Posted on: February 16, 2013
“Janam Janam Ke Phere” aka Sati Anapurna was a Mukti Films production movie. It was produced by Subhash Desai and directed by Manoo Desai. The movie had Nirupa Roy, Manhar Desai, MB M Vyas, S N Tripathi, Satish Vyas, Amar, Pandey, Kanta Kumari, Malay Sarkar, Champaklata, Krishna Kumari and Mahipal (guest artist) in it.
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Tumko fursat ho meri jaan
Posted on: February 15, 2013
This article is written by Arunkumar Deshmukh, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
My younger days were made more enjoyable by Talat’s songs. Though I was born and brought up in Hyderabad state- a Muslim ruled state(The Nizam was the king ruling on 85 % Hindu population….exactly opposite of Raja Harisingh of Kashmir ruling on 85% Muslims ! ), initially I was not much interested in Urdu Gazals etc. My interest in Urdu Gazals was ignited and further nurtured by by the way Talat sang them.
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“Naata” (1955) was a Madhubala Pvt Ltd production movie. It was directed by D N Madhok. The movie had Madhubala, Chanchal, Abhi Bhattacharya, Hiralal, Yashodhara Katju, Maruti etc in it.
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“Nav Durga” (1953) was a Basant Pictures Production movie. It was directed by Babubhai Mistry. The movie had Mahipal, Usha Kiran, Dalpat, Sulochana Chatterji, Raja Sandow, Maruti, S N Tripathi, Amarnath etc in it.
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Bhar de jholi Allah naam
Posted on: February 14, 2013
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
LAILA MAJNU(1953) was produced by P N Arora under the banner of All India Pictures and directed by K Amarnath. The star cast included Shammi Kapoor, Nutan, Ulhas, Begum Para, Wasti, Kammo, Ratan Kumar etc. All the songs of this film were penned by Shakeel Badayuni. However, the film had two music directors – Ghulam Mohammed (11 songs) and Sardar Malik (3 songs).
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“Chandrakanta” (1956) was a Sippy Films production movie. It was produced and directed by G P Sippy. The movie had Bharat Bhushan, Bina Rai, Johny Walker, Bipin Gupta, Hiralal, B M Vyas etc in it.
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