Archive for the ‘Songs of 1950s (1951 to 1960)’ Category
Koi mere sapnon mein aaya
Posted on: March 3, 2012
“New Delhi” (1956) was a Deluxe Fims presentation. It was directed by Mohal Sehgal. Starcast of the movie had Kishore Kumar, Vyjyanti Mala, Prabhu Dayal, Dhumal, Radhakrishan, Nazir Hussain, Nana Palsikar, Mumtaz Begum, Shivraj, Sheela Kashmiri, Jabeen Jalil, Mirajkar etc in it.
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O beta jee
Posted on: March 3, 2012
I have commented in the past that Hindi movie songs are mostly based on topics that are of interest to Indians. But often there are day to day activities that have sadly gone underrepresented in Hindi movie songs.
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Jogiyaa aa aa
Posted on: March 2, 2012
“Khota Paisa” (1958) was a Sadiq Production movie. It was produced and directed by M Sadiq. This movie had Johny Walker, Shyama, Veena,Jeevan, Dhumal, Nissar Ahmed Ansari, Rajen Haksar,S.N.Bannerjee, Amir Bano etc in it.
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Chandrma madbhara
Posted on: March 2, 2012
Most music lovers listen to standard commonly heard music. Then some music lovers decide to explore and search for previously unheard of music.
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“Heer” (1956) was a Filmistan Production. It was directed by Hamid Butt and the starcast included Pradeep Kumar, Nutan, Ulhas, Darpan, S. L. Puri, Randhir, Krishna Kumari, Zohra Sehgal, Chaman Puri, Mubarak, Murad, Rashid Khan, Lalita Pawar, Shakuntala etc.
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Kaun karta hai kisi ka intezaar
Posted on: March 1, 2012
“Kasturi” (1954) was a Sargam Pictures presentation. This movie was directed by someone called Rajendra Kumar (not the movie actor I am sure). The “star” cast of this movie had Sajjan, Samson, Nimmi, Bipin Gupta, Anand Prasad, Alka etc in it.
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Ni baliye rut hai bahaar ki
Posted on: March 1, 2012
“Kanhaiyya”(1959) was a movie which was an S P Pictures productions. Sant Singh and Pachhi were the producers and the movie was directed by Om Prakash. Starcast of th movie had names like Raj Kapoor, Nutan, Om prakash, Lalita Pawaar, Raj Mehra, Vishwa Mehra, Madan Puri, Leela Mishra, Pachhi, Jagdish Sethi, Uma Dutt, Nazir Hussain, Sushil, Sarita, Mauji, Uma Khosla, Ratna, Mona Saxena etc.
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Manzil ki chaah mein
Posted on: February 29, 2012
There have been several adaptations of the novel Devdas, not only in Hindi movies, but in movies of other languages too. Among the various movies of this name, “Devdas” (1935) and “Devdas”(1955) are regarded as masterpieces.
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Dhal chuki shaam e gham
Posted on: February 29, 2012
I am coming round to the view that the popular category of songs, viz “How come this soong was not posted earlier” contains not just hundreds, but thousands of songs. There are so many great songs that have not yet figured in the blog, despite this blog boasting of over 5500 songs.
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Tum saamne aakar jis dam
Posted on: February 29, 2012
“Khazaanchi” (1958) is a movie which was produced and directed by P N Arora. Starcast of the movie had names like Rajendra Kumar, Shyama, Chitra, Manorama, Helen, Rajan Haksar etc in it.
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