Archive for the ‘Songs of 1950s (1951 to 1960)’ Category
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
SHAGOOFA (1953) was the first film produced under the banner of P N Films – a production company of Premnath and Bina Rai who were also in the lead roles in this film. The other cast included Purnima, Bipin Gupta,Sundar, Yashodara Katju and Rajendranath. The film was directed by H S Rawail.
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Raat hai nikhhri huyi
Posted on: February 10, 2012
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
I just stumbled upon a beautiful duet ‘raat hai nikhri huyi’ sung by Krishna Goyal and Geeta Dutt from the film MALLIKAA (1956) under the music direction of the great Hansraj Bahl. Tanveer Naqvi is the lyricist.
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This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
I had taken it for granted that the song ‘zindagi ki kasam ho chuke unke ham’ from film MAALIK (1958) has already been discussed in this blog. When I saw the movie-wise list of songs just to know in which year this film was released, I found that two songs from this film have been discussed and this song was not one of them.
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This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Kavi Pradeep, the famous poet and lyricist, has been a well known figure both in the film industry and in the field of Hindi literature. He is one of the few poets who have sung their own writings in the films. Going by the numbers, probably Pradeep ji is a leader in this category of lyricist-singer. He has a fairly large number of songs to his credit, that he has sung himself.
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Chham chham chali piya ki gali
Posted on: February 9, 2012
“Ek Saal” (1957) was a Goel Cine Corporation movie. It was directed by Devendra Goel. Star cast of the movie included Ashok Kumar, Madhubala, Johny Walker, Minoo Mumtaz, etc.
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Na dir dim taana
Posted on: February 7, 2012
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
PARDESI (1957) was an Indo-Soviet co-production film in Hindi and Russian languages . The Hindiversion of the film was directed by K A Abbas and the star cast included Balraj Sahani, Nargis, Oleg Strizhenov, Prithviraj Kapoor, Jairaj, David, Padmini. The film did not create a stir at the box office but was nominated for Cannes Film Festival (1958.) M R Acharekar got the Filmfare award for the best art direction (1958) for this film.
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“Jaadoo” (1951) was a Musical Pictures presentation. It was directed by A R Kardar and the star cast of this movie had names like Suresh, Nalini Jaiwant, Amanullah, Shyam Kumar, Sharda etc in it.
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“Lakeeren” (1954) has by now ended up as an obscure movie, but that is not how it must have been during its time. It was a Sushil Pictures production and it was directed by Harbans. Starcast of the movie included big names like Ashok Kumar, Nalini Jaiwant, Pran, Durga Khote, Ramayan Tiwari, Cuckoo etc.
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