Archive for the ‘Songs of 1950s (1951 to 1960)’ Category
Raat abhi baaqi hai
Posted on: October 12, 2011
“Baghdad” (1952) is a B grade Hindi movie starring Bhagwan, Begam Para, Bharti Devi, Hari Shivdasani, Anwar Hussain etc. While discussing one song from this movie, I had mentioned the fact that obscure movies like this tended to have A grade music.
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“Husn Ka Chor” (1953) is a quintessential B grade movie which was a Basant Pictures presentation. It was directed by J B H Wadia. The movie had Lalita Kumari, Mahipal, Arti, Usha Kiran, Babu Raje, Jiji Goldstein, Sharda, B. M. Vyas, Dalpat, Sardar Mansoor, Raja Sandow, Mithu Miya etc. in it.
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Most movie songs that we get to listen to are from movies that got released. But there are a few songs which are from movies that never got released. Movies may have got shelved for varous reasons, but a few songs of these movies managed to get recorded and they came into circulation as well.
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“Madhur Milan” (1955) is a B grade movie which was produced by a production house called “Film Show”. It was directed by K G Punjwani. The movie had Mahipal, Roopmala, Nigar Sultana, Kesari, Bhudo Advani, Madan Puri 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.
Besides being an exceptional production in terms of characterizations and performances, the epic Mughal-e-Azam (1960) created by K Asif, was a musical bonanza too. Of the twelve brilliant creations by Naushad Saab and Shakeel Badayuni, eight are already posted on this blog. Here is the ninth musical offering from this film – a wonderful qawwaali in the tradition of baitbaazi, by Shamshad Begum and Lata Mangeshkar. The setting of this qawwaali is as follows.
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Chubh gaye do nainaa matwaare
Posted on: October 7, 2011
The era of singing in K L Saigal singing style was over in 1947 with the demise of K L Saigal and new style of singing came into existence. However, there was C H Atma, a K L Saigal devotee, who continued to uphold K L Saigal singing style for another few years.
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This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Zalzalaa (1952), is film produced under the banner of Art Films of Asia Ltd. It is produced and directed by Paul Zils. Paul was a German filmmaker who made India his home for more than two decades from mid 40s to the 60s. He is credited with the rejuvenation of India’s documentary film movement, after the departure of the British in 1947, and a prime moving force behind the Films Division of govt. of India (which was known as Information Films of India under the British regime).
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“Naaz” (1954) is a movie produced by S K Films. The director of this movie was S K Ojha. The movie had Ashok Kumar, Nalini Jaywant, Murad, Arif, Tiwari, Veena, Nawab, S. Nazir, Amar, K. Sabir etc in it.
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Mere dil ke geet chup thhey
Posted on: October 6, 2011
“Aakaash” (1953) was a Manmohan Films production, where Manmohan stood for Manmohan Sabir. He was the director of this movie as well. The movie had actors like Badri Prasad, Balraj Sahni, Nadira, Shammi, Manmohan Krishna, Agha, Jilloo etc.
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