Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs

Archive for the ‘Songs of 1950s (1951 to 1960)’ Category


“Gateway of India” (1957) was produced by Light & Shade Productions. It was directed by J Omprakash Omprakash, who was also the producer. The movie had Madhubala, Bharat Bhushan, Pradeep Kumar, Bhagwan, Johny Walker,Raj Mehra, Anita Guha etc.
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“Sujata” (1959) is a critically acclaimed movie and it is a musical blockbuster too. I am aware of most of the better known songs of this movie, which have gone on to become evergreen classics. But this movie also has a few lesser known songs.
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Sajjad Hussain composed only about 100 songs in his entire career lasting more than three decades. When I went through the list of his songs, I discovered some interesting facts. Though he composed very few songs, he worked with a disproportionally large number of singers and artists in these songs. In all, he worked with over 25 singers and over 25 lyricists in these songs that add up to just about 100 !
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Sajjad Hussain songs are a category of song that I regard as gold dust, especially those songs that are not yet discussed. As it is, Sajjad Hussain composed around one hundred songs in his career. This blog has covered as many as 62 of them, including some rare songs that were unearthed on internet for the first time.
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What song comes to our mind when a song begins “tumhe yaad hoga….” ? The classic “Satta Baazaar” (1959) song sung by Hemant Kumar-Lata of course. But there is another song that begins similarly. And this is a song that predates the “Satta Baazaar” (1959) song by half a decade.
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