Archive for the ‘Songs of 1950s (1951 to 1960)’ Category
In Hindi movies, singing songs is a privilege of the lead actors, and they sing at least half a dozen songs, including romantic songs.
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It was on 16th november 1917 that Chitragupta Srivastava was born in Bihar. He went to Bombay and earned fame as music director Chitragupta. He preferred to keep a low profile and was happy to compose for B grade movies, where he composed absolutely A grade music. A grade movie makers would have happily worked with Chitragupta if only Chitragupta had gone and met them. For instance, the first time that Chitragupta met with Raj Kapoor was in 1980s, when his music director sons Anand and Milind introduced him to raj Kapoor at a function. And Raj Kapoor told him that he would have definitely used him as a music director in his movies if only he had met him.
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Haay baalam kitna jaalam
Posted on: November 16, 2011
Helen has been the most well known item song dancer in Hindi movies. But she was not the first one. The original item song dancer in Hindi movies was Cuckoo. In fact, it was Cuckoo who was instrumental in getting Helen her initial breaks in Hindi movies. So in a way Helen was Cuckoo’s protege.
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“Chingaari” (1955) is an obscure movie which was produced by Cooperatives pictures production. S Srivastava directed the movie. This movie had actors like Shekhar, Nalini Jaywant, Leela Misra, Sunalini Devi, Pran etc in it.
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“Mayur Pankh”(1954), a Sahu Production movie, which was directed by Kishore Sahu had a star cast consisting of names like Kishore Sahu, Ramesh Gupta, Sumitra Devi, Jankidas, Reginald Jackson, Seema, Asha Mathur, Cuckoo, Moni Chatterji, Helen, Odette Ferguson, etc. The story line of this movie, as I have guessed from watching its songs is rather interesting. It shows an Indian man falling in love with an English woman and an English man returning the compliments by falling in love with an Indian woman.
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Qismat ke khel niraaley
Posted on: November 16, 2011
“Talaash” (1957) was a Anand Films, Bombay production. It was directed by Vishram Bedekar. The star cast included names like Ashok Kumar, Bina Rai, Jagirdaar, Yaakoob, Ameeta, Raj Mehra, Jamal, Mridula, Radhika, Chaman Puri, Sushil Gupta, Eruch Tarapore, Shakuntala, Pal Sharma, Rajesh Sharma, Rajan Kapoor, Ramlal, Master Chhotu, Tiwari, Maqbool, Nazir Kashmiri, Heera Sawant etc in it, Mumtaz Ali etc.
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“Ham Panchchi Ek Daal Ke” (1957), as the title suggests was a movie stressing the fact that India represents unity in diversity. This movie was a children’s movie and the songs of this movie were picturisation on children.
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Hamne sunaa thhaa ek hai Bharat
Posted on: November 14, 2011
“Didi” (1959) was a Sadashiv Chitra Production. It was directed by Narayan Kale. The movie had Sunil Dutt, Shubha Khote, Alhad, Sajjan, Feroz Khan, Daisy Irani, Honey Irani, Javdekar, Salvi, Om Prakash, Jayshree, Lalita Pawar etc in it.
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