Archive for the ‘Songs of 1950s (1951 to 1960)’ Category
This article is written by nahm, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
This film “Laal Quila” (1960) would have been forgotten but for the two immortal ghazals composed by S. N. Tripathi, and sung by Mohammed Rafi. These ghazal’s ‘lagtaa nahin hai dil meraa ujde dayaar mein’ and ‘na kisi ki aankh ka noor hoon na kisi ke dil ka qaraar hoon ‘ have a place in the hearts of urdu poetry readers be they lay person or scholors.
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Pyaar ne kitne sapne dekhe
Posted on: December 27, 2012
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Searching for and finding rarities in the world of music, is a keen and interesting pursuit. The Hindi film songs have so many variants attached to their existence. Songs that appear in film, but are not released elsewhere. Songs that are on records but not included in the film. Version songs – the official song in the film and on the record, is also available on record in the voice of a different singer. This case is different from the same song sung by more than one singer and included in the film. Then we have the variations between the song published on record and the song as picturized in the film.
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“Mastaana” (1954) was a Black and White movies production. It was directed by H S Rawail. The movie had Motilal, Nigar Sultana, Kuldip Kaur, Chandrashekhar, Yashodhara Katju, Sunder, Rinkoo, Gope, Chaman Puri, Master Romi, Tiwari etc in it.
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Matwaala jiyaa doley piyaa
Posted on: December 26, 2012
“Mother India” (1957) was a movie that was released before I was born. So this movie is from an era before my time. I first watched this movie in late 1970s in its nth re run in a dilapidated movie hall. Moreover I was not much into old movies in those days and I went to watch this movie so that I may be able to say that I had seen this movie. 🙂
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This article is written by Arunkumar Deshmukh, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
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Unknown composers Composer 10- Vasant Prabhu
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This is the 10th and the last article in the series of UNKNOWN COMPOSERS.
The whole idea was to emphasize the contribution made by these composers to the HFM and to bring to light their work so that they have their Day of Glory once more.
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Haal e dil main kya kahoon
Posted on: December 25, 2012
“Udan Khatola” (1955) was a Sunny Art Production movie. It was produced and directed by S U Sunny. The movie had Dilip Kumar, Nimmi, Surya Kumari, Jeevan, Agha, Nawab, Tuntun etc in it.
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Suno Radheshyam
Posted on: December 25, 2012
“Shri Naqad Narayan” (1955) , a light hearted movie was a Kamdhenu Pictures Production. It was directed by I S Johar. The movie had Motilal, Meena, Majnu, Leela Misra, Naaz, Murad, Om Prakash, Badri Prasad etc in it.
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Kaahe nainon mein kajra bharo
Posted on: December 25, 2012
“Badi Bahu” (1951) was a Variety Pictures production. Asha Lata Biswas was the producer and Shamim Bhagat directed the movie. The movie had Shekhar, Nimmi, Raj Adib, Sulochana Chatterji, Shivraj, Chanda, etc in it.
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