Archive for the ‘Songs of 1950s (1951 to 1960)’ Category
Though I subscribe to three newspapers daily, I rarely go through much of their contents and the newspapers finally end up with the “raddiwala” after a few months. But on saturdays I look forward to these newspapers, rather to one column of one newspaper. It is the “Swar panchami” column of Hindi newspaper “Dainik Bhaskar”. In this column, Vividh Bharati radio announcer Yunus Khan discusses a few old songs. And as can be guessed, this topic is right up my alley.
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Ghoonghat kali ka na khol
Posted on: August 5, 2011
“Aanchal” (1960) is a movie that had Ashok Kumar, Nirupa Roy,Nanda, Sudesh Kumar, Seema Deo etc in it. This movie had some nice songs in it and I have discussed as many as four songs from this movie so far.
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Badi cheez hai pyaar muhabbat
Posted on: August 4, 2011
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This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Celebrating and remembering Kishore Da on the anniversary of his birth today. 🙂
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Surma mera niraalaa
Posted on: August 4, 2011
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Celebrating and remembering Kishore Da on the anniversary of his birth today. 🙂
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Saanwre saanwre
Posted on: August 3, 2011
This is a gem of a song. And still this song is not known to too many people. By now I am no longer surprised or shocked by this fact that many great songs of yesteryears have been allowed to be lost to oblivion. Indians by and large are not keen students of history and they do not have much appreciation of their rich legacy, so showing callous disregard to such great works of art will naturally follow.
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O ameeron ke parmeshwar
Posted on: August 3, 2011
Though I have discussed as manay as five songs from “Paighaam” (1959), I was not aware of this song from the movie.
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Sab ki ho khair baba sabka bhalaa
Posted on: August 3, 2011
This is a song from “Phir Subah Hogi” (1958) about which I was not aware. I came to know about this song after I received the lyrics of this song from nahm.
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Kyaa karoon kyaa karoon
Posted on: August 3, 2011
“Raftaar” (1955) is a movie starring Nadira and Talat Mehmood. Yes, it is a movie of those days when Talat Mehmood was trying hard to make it big as a singing acting hero.
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Haay unki wo nigaahen
Posted on: August 2, 2011
1950s saw a trend of suspense movies in Hndi movies. These movies were obviously inspired by Western movies of the same genre. Some nice suspense movies got made in that decade.
Hindi suspense movies had one thing that was missing in Western suspense movies, viz songs. 😀 And seeing what great musical talents Hindi movies had at that disposal, music lovers have been left with a rich legacy of great songs from such movies.
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There are several ways in which I come across musical gems. Arbitrarily clicking away at various youtube clips is one such way. But another, and far more effective way is to go through the farmaishes of readers on the farmaish page, and look for those songs. That is what I am consciously doing these days, and it has been a highly rewarding experience.
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