Archive for the ‘Songs of 1950s (1951 to 1960)’ Category
“Samrat Prithviraj Chauhan” (1959) is a Mythological/historical movie which had actors like Jairaj, Anita Guha, Ulhas, Sapru, B M Vyas, Chand Usmani, Sundar etc in it. Topicwise/ budgetwise, it was a B grade movie. So naturally it follows that the music of this movie must be A grade. 🙂
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“Oonchi Haweli” (1955) is an obscure movie by now. Few information seems to be available about this movie except that this movie had actors like Karan Dewan,,Nirupa Roy,Bhagwan,Lalita Pawar, B M Vyas etc in it. This movie was produced by Sharad Production and it was directed by Dhirubai Desai.
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Naye naye rangon se likhti
Posted on: April 17, 2011
“Kavi Kalidas” (1959) is a movie in which Bharat Bhushan played the title role of Kalidas, the great Saskrit poet of the middle ages.
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“Bilwamangal” (1954) is a movie that was based on the life of the blind poet Surdas. K C Dey, a blind artist of Hindi movies had played the title role.
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Le lo jee hamaare gubbaare
Posted on: April 16, 2011
This article is written by Raja, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie songs and a regular contributor to this blog.
When we think of Bollywood personalities whose career was cut short cruelly by death, a few names immediately spring to mind.
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Jai Saraswati
Posted on: April 16, 2011
“Kavi Kalidas” (1959) is a movie based on the life of the great Sanskrit language poet called Kalidas. This movie has songs that are naturally in Sanskritised Hindi. And these songs sound so sweet to the ears.
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“Dil e Naadaan” (1953) is a movie that had Talat Mehmood, Shyama and Peace Kanwal in it. This movie, which apparently was a love triangle, had some nice songs in it. I have already discussed three songs from this movie.
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“Kavi Kalidas”(1959) was a Sindhu Films production. It was directed by S N Tripathi, who also produced the movie, acted in it and of course composed the music.
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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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