Archive for the ‘Songs of 1950s (1951 to 1960)’ Category
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
With this post, we are celebrating the 4300th song on this blog. Keeping a fairly sharp pace, at the rate of about 6 or 7 songs per day, we reached this latest century milestone within 16 days of touching the 4200 mark. Congratulations to all.
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Qadar jaane naa ho qadar jaane naa
Posted on: July 30, 2011
I have mentioned in the past that I believed Nutan to be the original tragedy queen, before Meena Kumari joined in playing such roles. But just now I have realised that the crown of the original tragedy queen should go to Nimmi who was playing such roles almost from the beginning of her career, which began prior to Nutan and Meena Kumari’s forays in to tragedy roles.
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Dekh ke teri nazar beqaraar ho gaye
Posted on: July 29, 2011
“Howrah Bridge” (1958) was a landmark movie in the annals of Hindi movie club songs. This movie had not one but two club songs that went on to become immortal clu songs. One was of course the Helen song Mera naam Chin Chin Choo and the other was the Madhubala song Aayiye meharbaan (Howrah Bridge) .
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Ashqon se likhee taqdeer meri
Posted on: July 29, 2011
“Daaman” (1951) is one of those obscure movie about which not much information is available. Songs of such movies tend to be just as obscure but one can often come across some nice songs in such movies.
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Ham tumse judaa tum hamse judaa
Posted on: July 29, 2011
“Bade Bhaiyya” (1951) was a B grade movie starring Suresh and Nirupa Roy. this movie , which was directed by Aspi Iraani had a musical team that is quite obscure.
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This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
A most hilarious song from Navrang (1959). Lyrics are by Bharat Vyas and the composition is by C Ramchandra. The song is sung by Bharat Vyas himself.
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Man mein mere angaarey hain
Posted on: July 28, 2011
“Malti Madhav” (1951) is a by now forgotten movie. With the movie, its songs too have been forgotten. But these songs are rare gems.
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Aise hain sukh swapan hamaare
Posted on: July 27, 2011
When one thinks of the combination of Lata, Pt Narendranath Sharma and Sudhir Phadke, then what is the song that immediately comes to mind ? Jyoti kalash chhalke(Bhaabhi ki choodiyaan)(1961) ofcourse. But that is not the only song created by this team. They have created a few more.
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Main banoongi film star
Posted on: July 26, 2011
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
The melodious strains of ‘Chalo Dildaar Chalo, Chaand Ke Paar Chalo’, composed more than 4 decades ago, sound and feel like a fresh breeze of air, every time one listens to it. The magnum opus of the famously talented Ghulam Mohammed, a string of his best creations – ‘Chalte Chalte Yun Hi Koi Mil Gayaa Thhaa’, ‘Inhi Logon Ne Le Leena Dupatta Mera’, ‘Mausam Hai Aashiqaana’ and more – establish the definition of what Ghulam Mohammed’s body of musical creation is. A pity that this success came somewhat late in the day – a release that marked a watershed in the history of Hindi film music was to happen about three years after the demise of its creator.
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Jeene do aur jiyo
Posted on: July 26, 2011
I have discussed as many as four songs from “Taxi driver” (1954) but I was not aware of this song. I became aware of this song only after its lyrics were sent to me by Prakashchandra.
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