Archive for the ‘Songs of 1950s (1951 to 1960)’ Category
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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Dil mera tera deewaanaa
Posted on: September 13, 2011
“Apni Izzat” (1952) was a B grade movie produced by Harishchandra Productions and directed by N Bhatt. This movie had Motilal, Munawwar Sultana, Sulochana Chatterji, David Abraham, Gope, Yashodhara Katju, Yakub, Agha, Raj Mehra etc in it.
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“Rajdhani” (1956) is a movie produced by N C Films. It was directed by Naresh Saigal. This movie had Sunil Dutt, Purnima, Naaz, Johnny Walker, Nimmi, Durga Khote, Tiwari etc in it. This movie has been by and large forgotten by now and most of the songs of this song have suffered the same fate.
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There are many well known songs from yesteryears that are not yet discussed. In some cases, I am aware about this fact. In other cases, I was under the impression that these songs were already discussed.
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Subah ki angdaayi hoon
Posted on: September 11, 2011
“‘Ameer” (1954) is such a rare and obscure movie that if one tries to search for this movie on search engines, one gets “Amar” (1954) instead. And needless to say, no information is available on this movie on internet.
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“Moti Mahal” (1952) is a movie about which only sketchy information is available. This movie was a Nigaristan Films production. It was directed by Ravindra Dave and it had Ajit, Suraiyya,Veera,Jeevan, Tabassum, Satish,Ratan Kumar, Roopmala etc in it.
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Aajaa ree aa nindiyaa tu aa
Posted on: September 9, 2011
When I saw the lyrics of this song (sent by Prakashchandra), I felt that this song was discussed long back. But despite my thorough checking, I drew a blank. So here was another well known song that had somehow remained undiscussed all these days, while I was under the impression that I had already discussed it.
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Nazar phero na ham se
Posted on: September 9, 2011
“Deedaar” (1951) is a movie that was directed by Nitin Bose. This movie had a formidable star cast consisting of Ashok Kumar, Dilip Kumar, Nargis, Nimmi etc.
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