Archive for the ‘Songs of 1950s (1951 to 1960)’ Category
Ae bambu bam bolo
Posted on: April 15, 2011
In the second half of 1950s, Hindi movies saw the influence of rock and roll music. The music of these songs was influenced by Rock and roll in the western countries. The lyrics of these songs were mainly gibberish.
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Tere jahaan se ham chale
Posted on: April 15, 2011
“Inquilaab” (1956) is a movie whose songs were discovered by me only recently. And what music this song had !
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Ae roti huyi taqdeer bataa
Posted on: April 15, 2011
I am aware of a movie called “Toote Khilaune” (1978) but I was not aware that a movie of the same name was produced some quarter of a century ago as well.
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The movie has been forgotten, and with it the songs of this movie too have passed into oblivion, but that is not how it should be. I find that this movie has some very hummable songs in it.
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Ae chaand kal jo aanaa
Posted on: April 14, 2011
“Devtaa” (1956) is a movie that was one of the earlier Hindi movies produced by a South Indian Production house. The lead actors of this movie were South Indians too. Gemini Ganeshan, Anjali Devi and Vyjyanti Mala had played the lead roles in this movie.
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Mere dil ki nagariyaa mein aanaa
Posted on: April 14, 2011
“Madhosh”(1951) is a movie that had Manhar Desai, Meena Kumari and Usha Kiran in lead roles. Talat Mehmood sung for Manhar Desai, whereas Lata sang for both the leading ladies. Thankfully the two leading ladies did not sing a duet together, else we do not know what the music directors would have done. 🙂
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Chhod mujhe na jaanaa
Posted on: April 13, 2011
“Madhosh” (1951) has one hero (Manhar Desai) and two heroines (Meena Kumari and Usha Kiran). In this movie, Manhar Desai got to lip sync in the voice of Talat Mehmood. The two leading ladies, who was seen to romance the same hero, were also made to lip sync in the same voice, viz that of Lata.
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Haay kisi ka rangeen aanchal
Posted on: April 12, 2011
“Chaubees Ghante” viz twentyfour hours is a movie that was released in 1958. This B grade movie had Premnath, Shakeela, K N Singh, Maruti, Nishi, Satish Batra etc in it. This movie was a B grade movie and I am not much aware of this movie. I in fact was more aware of a movie called “Chattees Ghante” (thirtysix hours) that was released in 1975.
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Unpar kaun kare jee vishwaas
Posted on: April 12, 2011
The usual love stories constituted the bulk of storyline in mainstream Hindi movies of the past. The fact that history and mythology provided such rich sources of stories that could be used was not given much thought by mainstream movie makers. It was left to movie makers of smaller resources (makers of B grade movies) to make movies on such topics that were regarded as risky and unviable by mainstream movie makers.
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“Jaageer” (1959) is an obscure movie which had Premnath, Ulhas, Meena Kumari, Kuldeep Kaur etc in it.
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