Archive for the ‘Songs of 1950s (1951 to 1960)’ Category
Madbhari hain pyaar ki palken
Posted on: August 5, 2012
“Fashion” (1957) was a Kuldip Pictures production. This movie was directed by Lekhraj Bhakri. The movie had Pradeep Kumar, Mala Sinha, Chandrashekhar, Manoj Kumar, Jabeen Jaleel,Sunder, Jabeen Jalil, Jagdish Sethi, Kammo, Leela Misra etc in it.
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This article is written by Shekhar Gupta, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
The 1950s was the decade when Sur Saraswati Lata Mangeshkar showered scores of melodious gems on the music lovers which have defied time to linger in their memory like pangs of the first-love.
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Wo thhi ham thhe ham thhe wo thhi
Posted on: August 4, 2012
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
On the occasion of Kishore Kumar’s birth anniversary on August 4th, the wheel of time(kalchakra) takes me back to my teens when I used to listen to Radio Ceylon’s programme on old Hindi film songs. On the first day of every month, the first song that was played on this programme was din hai suhaana aaj pahli taarikh hai from the film ‘Pahli Taarikh’ (1954). That was the time when I came to know about Kishore Kumar as a singer. It was a revelation to me later from the film ‘New Delhi’ (1956) that he was not only a singer but an actor also. With his many subsequent films in 50s and early 60s, I had taken it for granted that he was a comedian who sang mostly fun songs and that too for himself.
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Tera husn maana badi cheez hai
Posted on: August 3, 2012
This article is written by nahm, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Today is Poet Shakeel Badayuni’s birth anniversary. I came to know about it just now, as it happens in almost all anniversaries that are celebrated in the blog. Incidentally I had written down the lyrics of this unused song from the film ‘Aan”, yesterday only. When I send two /three song writeups to Atul ji , it is better to give him breathing space. So instinctively, I try to hold on and not send him any more till he posts these.
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Chalta rahe ye kaarwaan
Posted on: August 3, 2012
Today (3 august) is the birth anniversary of Shakeel Badayuni. He was one of the most well known and influential lyricists in the golden era of Hindi movie music. He wrote about 700 songs in 89 movies. He teamed up with Naushad in 30 movies, with Ghulam Mohammad in 21 movies and with Ravi in 15 movies.
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This article is written by Shekhar Gupta, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
The Kidar Sharma-directed Jhaanjar (1953) was a joint venture of music director C Ramchandra and actor Om Prakash under the banner of New Sai Productions. Despite a star cast comprising Motilal, Kamini Kaushal, Om Prakash, Sajjan, Usha Kiran, KN Singh, Sunder, Protima Devi and Sheela Naik, it bombed at the box-office. But its melodies have survived the ravages of time.
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Tu sach batla mujhe jogi
Posted on: August 3, 2012
“Joru Ka Bhai” (1955) was a Mahashakti Films production. It was produced and directed by Chetan Anand. The movie had Balraj Sahni, Sheila Ramani, Vijay Anand, Johny Walker, Praveen Paul, Rashid Khan etc in it.
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Mohe ratiyaa neend na aaye
Posted on: August 1, 2012
These days people fight elections to come to power and once they get a taste for it, then want to cling to it at any cost. During mythological times, the King of gods, viz Lord Indra would cling to his chair like a leech. One did not have to fight elections to come to power those days. One needed to do tapasya (penance) in a jungle for long years. Whenever a tapaswi sage would decide to go to a jungle and do “tapasya”, Lord Indra would get worried, thinking that the sage was after his chair. So he would try to disrupt the “tapasya”.
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