Archive for the ‘Songs of 1950s (1951 to 1960)’ Category
“Khul Ja Sim Sim” (1956) is a B grade movie which was a Golden Films presentation. Produced by Mulkraj Bhakri,it was directed by Nanubhai Vakil and the star cast included names like Mahipal, Shakila, Maruti, Heeralal, Helen, Niranjan Sharma, Krishna Kumari, Naazi, Sadiq, Vijaya Kumari etc.
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Aafat mein phansa hoon main
Posted on: December 22, 2011
“Shah Behram” (1955) is a movie about which nothing was known on internet till I discussed a song from this movie a few months ago. In response to that post, Mr Arunkumar Deshmukh provided us all the information that we may ever need about this movie.
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Husn jawaan ishq jawaan
Posted on: December 20, 2011
In case of most movies, only a few songs become popular and other songs become forgotten with time. I have found that several of these forgotten songs are superb songs to listen to, and with some luck, they should have become popular songs, instead of ending up into the dustbin of obscurity.
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Aji chale aao aji chale aao
Posted on: December 20, 2011
There are several well known songs that I believe have already been covered in the blog but I often turn out to be wrong in my belief.
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Aaye na baalam waadaa kar ke
Posted on: December 19, 2011
“Shabaab” (1954) was a Sadiq Preoduction movie. It was produced and directed by M Sadiq. Star cast of the movie included names like Bharat Bhushan, Nutan, Badri Prasad, Yashodhara Katju, Wasti, etc. From the songs of this movie, I have deduced that the storyline of this movie was losely based on Sanskrit scholar Bilhan’s work which was written in 11th century AD. Bilhan should not be confused with Kalhan who also lived in the same areas (Kashmir), but one century later and who wrote “Rajtarangini”.
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Aaye bhi akela jaaye bhi akela
Posted on: December 19, 2011
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
A wonderful gem from the film Dost from 1954. A very poignant song, which has been rendered so soulfully by Talat Saab. Such a soft and silky smooth rendition, in a manner that only he can accomplish.
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“Madaari” (1959) was a quintessential B grade movie. Such movies normally remained confined to their dedicated fans and failed to register among the mainstream movie watchers. But in some rare cases, the songs of such movies became so popular that mainstream movie watchers were made to sit up and take notice.
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During the period from 1940s to 1960s, we often had titles of Hindi movies based on Railways. Thus we had movies titled “Station Master” (1942), ” Rail Ka Dibba” (1953), “Railway Platform” (1955) , “The Train” (1970) etc. Much later in 1980s, we had a few more Railway based titles, viz “The Burning Train” (1980) and “Coolie” (1983).
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“Ham Bhi Insaan Hain” (1959) is an obscure movie by now. This movie was produced by V A K Productions. R Majumdar was the director. The sar cast included names like Abhi Bhattacharya, Lata Sinha, Anil Kumar, Kumar, Dhumal,Chaman Puri, Samar Roy, Lalita Kumari etc. Most names in the cast ring no bells. In other words, this movie was a B grade movie.
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