Archive for the ‘Songs of 1950s (1951 to 1960)’ Category
Dam hai baaqi to gham nahin
Posted on: February 27, 2012
“House No 44” (1955) was a movie produced under the banner of Navketan International Films. Dev Anand was the producer and M K Burman was the director of this movie. Starcast of the movie had Dev Anand, Kalpana Karthik, K.N.Singh, Kumkum, Bhagwan Sinha, Sheela Vaz, PrabhuDayal, Jambura, Anand Pal, Parashuram, Sarita, Shivraj, Rashid Khan, Kammo, etc in it.
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This article is written by Raja, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Tolstoy is reported to have said “Music is the shorthand of emotion”. Nietzche is supposed to have said “Without music, life would be a mistake”. A quote attributed to Aldous Huxley goes “After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible, it is music”.
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Main rangeela pyaar ka raahi
Posted on: February 25, 2012
Here is yet another song of the “how come this song was not posted earlier ” genre. For my excuse, look at my standard excuse that I have given in other songs of this genre 🙂 .
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Tu aap hai apna chor
Posted on: February 25, 2012
Singing filmy songs is a career not only for playback singers but also for small time beggars etc in real life. We in these pages have discussed beggars singing Hindi movie songs on Mumbai local trains. I wonder if beggars still sing such songs on these locals, seeing how crowded these train are. Singing these songs on the roadside, or typically while seated under a tree on the streets is a much better option.
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“Heer” (1956) was a Filmistan Production. It was directed by Hamid Dutt (?) and the starcast included names viz 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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“Adaa” (1951) is a Goel Cine Corporation movie. This movie was produced and directed by Devendra Goel. Starcast of the movie had Rehana, Shekher, Gope, Madan Puri, Mohana, Shanta Kumari etc in it.
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Honthhon pe taraane aa gaye jee
Posted on: February 24, 2012
24th february is the birth anniversary of Talat Mehmood and as is the practice with us, we gift ourselves some Talat Mehmood related gems on this occasion. 🙂
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Ye khushi ka samaa
Posted on: February 24, 2012
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Talat Mehmood ( 24-02-1924 – 09-05-1998) and the song ‘ tasveer teri dil mera behalaa naa sakegi’ are synonymous. I was under the impression that this song was from a film. But after getting hold of a 78 rpm record ( N.16767) of this song in early 70s, I realised that it was a non-filmy song. I came to know much later that this was one of the top selling gramophone records issued in early 40s and this song brought Talat Mehmood to the limelight as a singer in Hindi film industry.
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