Archive for the ‘Songs of 1950s (1951 to 1960)’ Category
Dil ki mehfil sajaane
Posted on: August 31, 2011
“Mast Qalandar” (1955) is an obscure B grade movie that had such B grade superstars as Mahipal, Johny Walker, Helen, Tiwari, Naaz etc in it. Kedar Kapoor was the director.
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Main ghata tu pawan
Posted on: August 31, 2011
“Jaggu” (1952) was a B grade movie that is by now an obscure and forgotten movie. From the little that I have been able to find out about this movie, it had actors like Kamal Kapoor, Shyama, Kuldip Kaur,Jagdish Sethi, Baby Nanda 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.
aaj phir jeene ki tamanna hai
aaj phir marne ka irada hai
No better words to express the exuberance and the playfulness of a liberated spirit. A poet’s dream and life’s illustration in reality, all anxieties and caution thrown to the winds and the desires to live the life the way it should be. These words from the pen of Shailendra, and numerous other such gems, of all moods and flavors, embellish the Hindi film screen for 160+ films across two decades. A poet par excellence, Shailendra was a rebel spirit meshed in a romantic mould, whose understanding and expression of human emotions and situations is second to none.
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“Yahudi” (1958) is a Hindi movie based on an alien story. And the way that the foreign tale has been told Indian style is interesting.
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Maalik tere jahaan mein
Posted on: August 30, 2011
“Ab Dilli Door Nahin” (1957) is a moving tale about orphan kids. The movie and its songs are in fact so poignantly picturised that I cannot bear to watch the movie. For that matter, I can rarely bear the watch the picturisation of a few songs too.
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Mera pyaar bharaa dil thhukraa ke
Posted on: August 30, 2011
Finding out details is extremely difficult when it comes to forgotten artists of the past. Hardly any information seems to be available about them. and God forbid, if the name of the artist is similar to some well known artist, then your chances of getting any information on that person recede further, because all the information coming at you on search engines is only on the well known person of the similar name.
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This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Greetings and welcome all to the 4500th song on this blog.
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“Hatimtai” (1956) , as the name suggests is a B grade Arabian nights tale movie that depicts the tale of Hatimtai who sets out to complete the tasks assigned to him before he can land the big prize.
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“Darbaar” (1955) is a B grade movie produced by Golden Movies and directed by N Vakil. This movie had such B grade big names as Mahipal,Chitra,Kammo, Tiwari,Sundar etc. in it 😀
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There have been two movies called “Sabse Bada Rupaiyya”. I was personally familiar with the Mehmood movie that was released in 1976. But the earlier movie with the same title was released in 1955.
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