Archive for the ‘Songs of 1950s (1951 to 1960)’ Category
This article is written by Arunkumar Deshmukh, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a contributor to this blog. This article is meant to be posted in atulsongaday.me. If this article appears in other sites without the knowledge and consent of the web administrator of atulsongaday.me, then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.
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5586 | Post No. : | 18060 |
Today’s song is from a Costume film- Naqabposh-1956.
The film was produced by N. Buli under the banner of Kaizer Films. The film’s director was Ram Pahwa-a Debutante. He went on to direct 5 more films – Apna Ghar-1960, Nai Imarat-1981, Jai Karolin Maa-1988, Chintamani Surdas-1988 and Majboor ladji-1991….all obscure and unknown films. Comparatively his first film was known better. The cast of the film was Chitra, Manhar Desai, Kumkum, Leela Mishra, Bhudo Advani, Fazloo, Maruti, Gope and others.
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This article is written by Arunkumar Deshmukh, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a contributor to this blog. This article is meant to be posted in atulsongaday.me. If this article appears in other sites without the knowledge and consent of the web administrator of atulsongaday.me, then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.
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5576 | Post No. : | 18048 |
Today’s song is from an extremely obscure film Chhoti Duniya-1953.
The reason this film is so obscure is that the film was made by an unknown banner – Meera Productions, Ahmedabad. The producer’s name- D.M.Sheth- was as unknown as this film’s director- cum – Hero, Uday Kumar. The entire list of the starcast was almost full of less known or unknown artistes like Uday Kumar, Leela Kumari, Nannoo, Ranjit kumari, Ashwini Roy, B.Lalwani, Mulji Khushal, Babu, Chander, Asha etc. Since it was a film produced in Gujarat, it is possible that some of the artistes may be from Gujarathi films or stage dramas. If so and if any of the readers know it, kindly mention it in the Comments column.
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This article is written by Arunkumar Deshmukh, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a contributor to this blog. This article is meant to be posted in atulsongaday.me. If this article appears in other sites without the knowledge and consent of the web administrator of atulsongaday.me, then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.
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5562 | Post No. : | 18029 |
Today’s song is from the film Ghayal-1951.
This social film was produced and directed by Ramchandra Thakur. The music was by Gyan Dutt. In this film, there were 11 songs-including a 2 part song-but unusually there were 7 Lyricists whose songs were sung by 6 different singers. While 5 singers were well known, the sixth name ” Bhola ” was unknown. For a long time no one knew who this Bhola was. Many people thought that Bhola was Bhola Shreshtha, the M.D., but it’s not true. This Bhola was Bulo C Rani,M.D. He joined the industry to be a singer. Khemchand Prakash gave him an opportunity to sing in the film Mehmaan-1942. Later, the same year,Gyan Dutt also gave him songs.Bulo C Rani sang 34 songs in 19 films – initially in his own name, and from 1944 onwards as ‘Bhola’, as he had become a Music Director himself by then, with the film Moorti-1944.
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Bhool jaa dil ki pareshaaniyaan
Posted on: October 7, 2023
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5559 | Post No. : | 18026 |
“Manohar”(1954) was a movie dubbed from Tamil movie “Manohara”(1954). It was produced by M Somasundaram and directed by L V Prasad for Manohar Films, Madras. The movie had Gemini Ganesan (in title role), Sadashivrao, T R Rajkumari,Kannamba, Natrajan etc. Its story and other details have been given by our beloved inhouse encyclopaedia Mr Arunkumar Deshmukh in this post.
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Kismat ka likha na taley
Posted on: October 3, 2023
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5555 | Post No. : | 18020 |
Today’s song is from the film Parichay-1954.
When I sat to write this post, suddenly I realised that in the last 20 posts, I have written 16 posts ( a cool 80 %) on songs from films of the 50’s. Normally I try to have a mix of songs from different decades – my favourites being the 30’s and the 40’s – so that the readers have some variety, while reading the posts. This time somehow, the songs from the 50’s seem to have overtaken all other songs !
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Aaj masti mein gaa
Posted on: September 30, 2023
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5552 | Post No. : | 18017 | Movie Count : |
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Today’s duet song is from an obscure film of the mid 50’s – Pensioner-1954.
Having an obscure film in the 50’s is not very common, because in this decade the film industry was taking a new shape and growing very fast. New actors, directors, new themes, new and emerging composers were giving a new hope to the industry. Lilting music and a vast audience encouraged the industry. In such a situation most films had something to offer, hence almost every film was successful. But as is said, success does not come to all just because you are in the group. Films which had nothing to please the audience naturally became flops.
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Wo aa gaye
Posted on: September 25, 2023
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5547 | Post No. : | 18009 |
Today’s song is from dubbed Tamil film, titled ” Manohar” in Hindi, in 1954.
After the mind boggling and the most unexpected success of the film Chandralekha-1948 from Gemini Studios, owned by S.S.Vasan, the Southern film industry was shaken. They never imagined that the Hindi belt could be tapped for additional business. The southern film stars, who always harboured a hidden desire to gain name, fame and the consequent money from the Hindi belt which occupied almost 75 to 80 % of All India market, also saw their opportunities in this.
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5545 | Post No. : | 18006 |
Today’s song is a lovely qawwali from the film Paak Daman-1957. The story of this film seems to be very popular and well known, because I find that several films were made on this one story and with the same title. The first film came in 1931 as Paak Daman. Then came Paak Daman Raqasa-1932, Paak Daman-1940 and Paak Daman-1957. Meanwhile a Pakistani film Paak Daman was also made in 1969.
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5543 | Post No. : | 18004 |
“Daak Babu”(1954) was produced and directed by Lekhraj Bhakri for Jubilee Pictures, Bombay. The movie had Nadira, Kuldip Kaur, Talat Mahmood, Yashodhara Katju, Radha Kishan, Manmohan Krishna, Ram avatar, Roshan, Uma, Munshi, Ranchodh, Ramdayal, P.N.Sharma etc in it.
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