Archive for the ‘Songs of 1950s (1951 to 1960)’ Category
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.
Read more on this topic…
“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.
Read more on this topic…
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.
Read more on this topic…
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.
Read more on this topic…
“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.
Read more on this topic…
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.
Read more on this topic…
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.
Read more on this topic…
“Footpath” (1953) is a movie starring Dilip Kumar and Meena Kumari. This movie has some nice songs in it and as many as four songs from this movie have been discussed here in the past.
Read more on this topic…
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusist of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Asha Bhonsle – the name that conjures up the racy and spicy sounds of ‘udlayee udlayee udlayee o’, a voice that has a chirp, and an impish and naughty flavor to it, and the versatility that adorns thousands of music creations that have become a hallmark in the annals of Hindi film music. The second of the famous siblings of the Mangeshkar clan, Asha ji was born on this day in 1933. She started singing for films at a very young age of 10 years. Although her released recordings in 1950s were second only to Lata, she was considered as the singer for “bad girls” and vamps, and got the assignments that were turned down by Lata, Geeta Dutt and Shamshad Begum. Her voice started getting noticed from films like Sangdil (1952), Parineeta (1953) and Boot Polish (1954). And then came the real recognition of her talent in the mid 1950s, under the baton of OP Nayyar, with hits like CID (1956) and Naya Daur (1957). She became the voice of Helen, and has sung most of the songs that Helen has performed on the screen. Helen ji used to attend the song recording sessions personally, to better get a feel of how the song is to be performed.
Read more on this topic…
Recent comments