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Archive for the ‘Songs of 1950s (1951 to 1960)’ Category


I have discussed one song from “Aurat”(1953) recently. Not much information about this movie was available on internet till then. But now, thanks to the comments provided my Mr Arunkumar Deshmukh, our inhouse expert on obsure movies had provided us with all the information about this movie that we may need.
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In Hindi movies, there are very few songs that can be described as children’s songs, which comes as quite a surprise seeing that children always form a good percentage of Indian population. Perhaps the fact that they do not hold the purse strings of the family may well be the reason why children’s songs are few and far between.
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This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.

“Hum Log’ (1951) is a production from the banner of Ranjit Movietone, but more than that, it is a signature piece by Zia Sarhadi, who has written and directed this film. This film is one of the earlier examples of Neo-Realism in Indian Cinema, a school of cinematic expression that was pioneered in the west by directors such as Luis Bunuel (Spain), Vittorio DeSica (Italy), Luchino Visconti (Italy), Yasujiro Ozu (Japan) and Jean Renoir (France). Although the film did not have any commercial success, it still is considered as the cult classic in the genre of Neo-Realism in Indian Cinema.
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“Parchhaain”(1952) was a Rajkamal Pictures production. V Shantaram was the director of this movie. Starcast was an all family affair, what with V Shantaram and Jayshree playing the lead roles in this movie. Lalita Pawar, Wasti, G. Nirula, Shams Lucknavi, Saroj, Sandhya, Baran, Nimbalkar etc were the other actors in this movie.
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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.

Film MAASHUKAA(1953) had 9 songs, 8 of which were sung by Mukesh and Suraiyya and the remaining song “ye sama hum tum jawaan” by Kishore Kumar and Meena Kapoor. The song was written by Shailendra and composed by Roshan. I had heard this song on Radio FM Gold about 3 years back but located the audio clip of this song on YT few months back. The film was produced by Mukesh with himself and Suraiyya as the lead pair. Other cast included Agha, Kuldup Kaur, Durga Khote and Amirbai Karnataki. Four songs from this film have already been discussed in this blog.
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