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Archive for the ‘Songs of 1950s (1951 to 1960)’ Category


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5697 Post No. : 18215

“Hamaara Watan”(1956) was produced by Ramesh Vyas and directed by Jayant Desai for Navkala Niketan, Bombay. The movie had Bina Rai, Premnath, Agha, Ram Singh, S N Tripathi, Kumkum, Jagdish Kamal, Ramesh Sinha, S Azeem, Habeeb, Nazeer Kashmiri, Md Rafi, Md Ali, M. Sandow, Hanuman, Md Hussain, Bela Sarkar, Jaya Rao, Maya Das etc in it.
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5689 Post No. : 18206

“Chamkee”(1952) was produced by Maganlal G Desai and directed by JK Nanda for National Film Circuit, Bombay. The movie had Ragini, Shekhar, Roopmala, Ulhas, Murad, Mira Mishra, Cuckoo, Jeevan, Nana Palsikar, Mumtaz, Uma Dutt, Khairaati, Brij Saarah, Iqbal, Pannu etc. in it.
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5683 Post No. : 18199

“Zindagi Ke Mele”(1956) was produced and directed by K B Lal for Prem Pictures Bombay. This movie had Chitra, Gajanan Jageerdaar, Dulari, Chandrashekhar, Kumkum, K N Singh, Minu Mumtaz, Rasheed Khan, Shanti Devi, Sheikh, Babu Raje, Jankidas, Lalita Pawar, Yakoob, Sai Subbulaxmi etc in it.
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This article is his 1300th post in the blog as a guest poster.

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5682 Post No. : 18198

Today’s song is a duet by Rafi and Chitalkar from the social comedy film Hangama-1952.

This is my 1300th post on this Blog. Is it for real ? It is too difficult for me to accept that I have written 1300 posts on old film songs. How did it happen ? If someone had predicted, when I was 71 year old, that I would write a New Chapter in my life and achieve few Milestones, that my name will be known to many people all over India and other countries, and that I will even write a couple of books…. and all this on old films and its music, I would have laughed aloud for a long time ! But it did happen !!
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5679 Post No. : 18192

Today’s song is from the Mythological film – Mohini-1957.

During the decade of the 1950s, maximum religious, Bhakti pradhan and Mythological films were made. Among them, most had roots in some or the other Puranas, Ramayan or mahabharat, but there were also films having the tag of ‘ Mythological’ film, which had absolutely no connection whatsoever, known or unknown, to any of the mythological stories. I have read all 18 Puranas, Ramayan and Mahabharat. I do not claim to know each and everything from there, but even in the film booklet no mention is made of the source of the story. Film Mohini is one such film. With 100s of Gods and 1000s of stories, it is easy to make up a story resembling any genuine story. Looks like that, like Arabian Night stories, here too adulteration has entered ! A simple trick of adding a lot of magic scenes can enable a story to become a Mythological or Arabian Night story !
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5678 Post No. : 18191

Today’s song is from the ‘ imaginary ‘ film, which was a Costume C grade film – Son of Alibaba-1955.

So, here we are again talking about a Costume C grade film which has an ‘imaginary’ category in the HFGK. I selected this film song because among such other films, this film had much better and good songs, composed by Sardul Kwatra, the Music Director.
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5676 Post No. : 18187

Today’s song is a duet from the film Shrikrishna Bhakti-1955.

This was a Mythological film (पौराणिक ), directed by the “Trick Magician” – Babubhai Mistri. The music director was the Melody Maker – Chitragupta. The cast of the film was Manmohan Krishna, Lalita Pawar, Mahipal, Bipin Gupta, B.M.Vyas, Dalpat and many others. A special feature of this film was that there were as many as 7 “Guest Appearance ” artistes – clearly a record number for any film till then. I doubt very much if any other film has broken this record. Any reader, who knows about more than 7 Guest artistes in a film, mentioned in the HFGK, so far, may please give the information in the Comments column. The Guest artistes in this film were….Krishna Kumari, Anwar Hussain, Maruti, Shaikh, Indira bansal, Bagala and Chitalkar (surprised with this name !).
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5670 Post No. : 18176

Today’s song is from the comedy film titled ‘Chalis baba Ek Chor’ (1954).

Obviously, the famous and popular story from the Arabian Nights – Alibaba aur Chalis Chor, has been used here for a parody of the film title. The film was produced by K Arts, a banner owned by the producer Kamini Kaushal (real name Uma Kashyap). Being the producer, she had the right to be the heroine of the film too ! The hero of the film was a misfit – Balraj Sahni. Undoubtedly, he was an excellent actor, but his personality, looks and his role history made him unfit for the comedy or romantic films. Some actors create an image with their early films and it sticks with them. After sometime, the audience finds it difficult to accept them in the roles diagonally opposite to their established image.
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5668 Post No. : 18173

Today’s song is from the film ‘Circus Queen’ (1959).

Readers who are above or around 50 to 60 years of age will surely remember how exciting was a visit to a circus show, in their childhood. We would see animals, generally found in the zoo, doing unbelievable tasks in the circus and then there were those inevitable jokers, who would try hard to make the public laugh. Especially the younger audience would love them. Gone are those days. Nowadays circus shows have become rare and there are no animals in them, I suppose.
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5667 Post No. : 18172

Today’s song is from the film ‘Shikar’ (1955).

Films with the title ‘Shikar’ were made in 1955, 1965, 1999 and 2001. Then there were films called ‘Shikari’, made in 1932, 1946, 1963 and 1991. To top it all, there was a film with the title ‘Shikar Shikari Ka’ made in 2010. I am not giving these details for fun, but after you read this film’s story, you will yourself say that the title of this film should have been ‘Shikar Shikari Ki’ !
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