Archive for the ‘Songs of 1950s (1951 to 1960)’ Category
Sudha Malhotra, mostly known as a singer and an occasional music director was born on 30th october 1936, which means that today is her birthday. She was active in playback singing from 1954 to 1982 and during this period he has sung some well knows as well as some by now forgotten song.
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Duniya ye kehti hai
Posted on: October 30, 2011
“Miss Bombay” (1957) was not about a female beauty queen, but about a bus called “Miss Bombay”, which is driven by Ajit in the movie. This movie was produced by N C films and it was directed by Kedar Kapoor. The movie had Ajit, Nalini Jaiwant, Bhagwan,Tiwari,Rehman,Vijaylaxmi,Bhudo Adwani,Pravin Pal etc in it. This movie may have led to some fan following among other B grade movie makers, because movies with similar titles, viz. Miss Punjab Mail, Miss Toofaan Mail etc. were produced the next year.
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By now I am coming round to the view that obscure B grade movies could well outnumber the well known A grade movies as far as old Hindi movies are concerned. Music of such movies could well turn out to be a treasure trove that has not yet been fully discovered. I continue to find one gem after another when I look for songs from such forgotten movies.
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Has anyone heard of a Hindi movie by the name “Black Tiger” (1960) ? I certainly had not. But just because I had not heard about it does not mean that this movie did not exist. This movie was very much in existence and it was a quintessential B grade movie. It was produced by an imaginatively named production house called Highway Pictures. The movie was directed by the legendary director of such movies, namely Akkoo. The “star cast” of this movie includes such B grade superstars as Nazma, Azad, Nadira, Habib, Sheikh etc.
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Jo waqt pe kaam aa jaaye
Posted on: October 28, 2011
“Farishta”(1958) is a Pancholi Productions movie which was directed by Ravindra Dave. The star cast of this movie included names like Ashok Kumar, Meena Kumari, Sohrab Modi, Mubarak, Nana Palsikar, Anita Guha, Murad, Mehmood , Sheikh, Mridula etc.
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“Husn Ka Chor” (1953) is not a movie that too many people have heard of. It was a quintessential B grade movie. Information about such movies are conspicuous by their absence on internet.
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“Taj” (1956) was a Dossi Films production. It was produced by Fali Mistry and directed by Nandlal Jaswantlal. The movie had Pradeep kumar,Vyjayanthimala, Bipin Gupta, Jeevan, Kammo, Shakunthala, Amar,Jajo, Kathana, Helen, Qamar, Roopmala, Ulhas etc in it.
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“Khazaanchi” (1958) is an “All India Pictures” production. It was produced and directed by Premnarayan Arora. The cast of the movie included names viz. Rajendra Kumar, Shyama, Chitra,Balraj Sahni, Minoo Mumtaz, Helen, Manorama,Keshto Mukherjee, Shammi, S.N.Bannerjee, Rajan Haksar, Amar, Anwar, Parashuram etc.
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“Paisa” (1957), by now an obscure movie was a Prithvi theatre production. It was directed by Prithviraj Kapoor. This movie had Prithviraj Kapoor, Kuldip Kaur, Zohra Sehgal,Urza Mumtaz, Ravindra Kapoor, Vishwa Mehra, Ermeline, Sudesh Kumar, Pushpa,Sunder, Shree Ram etc in it.
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Mere nadeem mere hamsafar
Posted on: October 25, 2011
“Bhai Behan” (1959) is by now an obscure movie, even though it was produced by an A grade producer namely G P Sippy. I S Johar wrote the story and the cast of the movie had names like Starcast: Daisy Irani, Naaz, Nishi Kohli,Rehman, Johnny walker, Kamaljit, Rajan Kapoor, Kathana,PraveenPaul,Rubi Pearl,Amrit Rana, Shammi,Tuntun, Hari Shivdasani,Anwar Hussain etc in it.
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