Archive for the ‘Songs of 1950s (1951 to 1960)’ Category
“Sone Ki Chidiya”(1958) is a movie which was a Film India Corporation presentation. It was directed by Shahid Latif. The movie had Balraj Sahni, Nutan, Pratima Devi, Dhumal, Altaf, Mehmood, Amar, Bikram Kapoor, Zebunissa etc in it.
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“Inquilaab”(1956) is an obscure movie by now. This movie was produced by Kailash Kapoor and directed by Kedar Kapoor. This B grade movie had Ranjan , Shyama, Kuldip Kaur, Tiwari , Sunder , Helen , Johny Walker etc in it.
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Jaane kahaan gayee
Posted on: December 7, 2011
From the title of the movie, this movie “Dil Apna Aur Preet Paraayi” (1960) appears a melancholic movie. But from the songs of this movie, this to be appears a fantastic movie.
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“Sone Ki Chidiya” (1958) is a Film India Corporation Production. This movie was directed by Shahid Latif and the star cast included names like Balraj Sahni, Nutan, Pratima Devi, Dhumal, Altaf, Nutan, Mehmood, Amar, Bikram Kapoor, Zebunissa etc in it.
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This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
“Aankhon Hi Aankhon Mein Ishaaraa Ho Gayaa”, this lovely melody remains etched in my heart, as my first introduction to a dashing young Dev Anand, as seen on a Doordarshan screening of the film CID (1956). Time would be sometimes early seventies, and as a pre teen kid I was in the home of a friend (we did not have a TV of our own), religiously attending the Sunday film session, that was the once a week diet of film viewing generally allowed to us kids.
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Dil ye kyaa cheez hai
Posted on: December 5, 2011
“Baazi” (1951) was one of the earliest movies produced by Navketan, and it was a pathbreaking movie in more ways than one. This movie paved the way for crime thrillers that became and remained a popular genre of Hindi movies throughout 1950s.
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“Munimji”(1955) was a movie produced by Filmistan and directed by Subodh Mukherji. This movie had Dev Anand, Nalini Jaywant, Pran, Nirupa Roy, Kanu Roy, Ameeta, Prabhu Dayal ,S. L. Puri, Samar Chatterji etc in it.
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This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music
A qawwaali with a difference. In that the performers on screen are not sitting down, but are prancing around in a completely free format. This is not the only non-sitting-down qawwaali performance, but I am sure it must be a very strong contender of being one of the funniest qawwaali performances to be seen on screen.
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I was unable to discuss any songs whatsoever in the last few days. As a result, I have fallen short of the usual daily targets that I have set for the blog. From today onwards, things will hopefully limp back to normal.
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