Archive for the ‘Songs of 1950s (1951 to 1960)’ Category
Ye samaa hai mera dil jawaan
Posted on: January 29, 2012
“Samrat Chandragupta”(1958) was a Mukti Films preduction. It was directed by Babubhai Mistry and the star cast included names like Bharat Bhushan, Nirupa Roy, Lalita Pawar, B. M. Vyas, Ullhas, Anwar Hussein, Krishna Kumari, Samra Roy, Dalpat etc.
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Koi pukaare dheere se
Posted on: January 28, 2012
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
January 28th is the 75th birthday of Suman Kalyanpur (nee Hemadi). She was born on January 28, 1937 in Dhaka in undivided Bengal where she spent her early childhood. In some places, her maiden surname is spelt as Hemadey probably having something to do with her Bengal connection. Her family hailed from Hemadi village in Udipi district of Karnataka and belonged to Chitrapur Saraswat Brahmin community which has given actors/directors to Hindi cinema such as Guru Dutt, Girish Karnad, Shyam Benegal, Leena Chandavarkar, Deepika Padukone to name a few. Her family migrated from Dhaka to Mumbai (then Bombay) in 1943. Talat Mehmood noticed Suman Kalyanpur during one of her concerts and was very much impressed with her singing. He agreed to sing a duet with her for the film Darwaaza (1954). The song was “ek dil do hain talabgaar” which was her first song as a playback singer for Hindi films.
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“Sabzbaagh” (1951) is an obscure movie by now. This movie was a Nirmal Pictures presentation and it was directed by Aziz Kashmiri. Starcast of the movie included names like Shekhar, Nimmi, Cuckoo, Pran, Khanjar, Chand Burque, Rashid Khan, Om Prakash, Suraiya Choudhary, Kamal Kapoor, Majnu etc.
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“Qaidi” (1957) is an Eagle Films production. It was directed by Mohammed Hussain and the star cast included names like Padmini, Suresh, Agha, Anwar, Kumar, Kamal, Helen, Johnny Walker, Ragini etc.
This by now forgotten movie has songs that have also become forgotten with time. But the songs are nice to listen to.
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The song under discussion is a classic example of a song that I thought had already been discussed in the blog long time ago, but I was wrong. This is a song whose lyrics are well known to all, including me, and this song is quite well known to all, even if there may be people like me who are vague about the details of this song.
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Din suhaane ye mausam bahaar ka
Posted on: January 25, 2012
“Poonam” (1952) is a movie which was produced by Kayarts and directed by M Sadiq. Starcast of the movie consisted of names like Ashok Kumar, Kamini Kaushal, Om Prakash, Sajjan, Asha Mathur etc.
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Mujhe tumse muhabbat hai
Posted on: January 24, 2012
Posting writeups during journey is turning out to be more difficult than I thought on this return journey. I was hoping that I would be able to discuss several songs in this return journey but so far I have been unable to do so. With difficulty, I have managed to post one song so far. Here is another song for the day.
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This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
So I come across this foot tapping melody by Rafi Saab, and as I start looking for details, up comes the name of the picture – “Miss ‘58”. First reaction is ‘wow, ok’. But then, thinking of the film “Mr and Mrs ‘55”, well why not “Miss ‘58”. Then a little more browsing on the blog reveals that there are already six films represented here whose names start with ‘Miss. . .’. and eight films starting with ‘Mr. . .’, and of course ‘Mr and Mrs 55’. And a cursory browse through the list of films from other sources, shows that there still are more films starting with ‘Miss’ and ‘Mr’ that are awaiting entry on this website.
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“Saaqi” (1952) is a movie which was produced by Talwar Films and directed by H S Rawail. The starcast of the movie included names like Premnath, Madhubala, Cuckoo, Bipin Gupta, Iftekhar, Gope, Mohana, Randhir, Mumtaz, Uma Dutt etc.
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