Archive for the ‘Songs of 1950s (1951 to 1960)’ Category
Din pyaar ke aaye re
Posted on: March 2, 2011
“Aansoo” (1953) is a forgotten movie by now. It had Shekhar and Kamini Kaushal in lead roles.
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“Lala Rukh” (1958) is a movie starring Talat Mehmood,Shyama,Tuntun, Radhika,Vikram Kapoor etc.
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Singer Mukesh, who had become a playback singer by early 1950s was trying to make it big as an actor-singer a la K L Saigal in 1950s. So much so that he began to produce his own movies in which he acted as hero and sang his own songs. But his ventures into movie making ended up in disaster as he not only lost money and ended up on the verge of bankruptcy, his career as a playback singer too almost came to an end because he stopped getting singing assignments from outside movies.
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My readers must have noticed that these days I am concentrating a lot on discussing songs of certain particular artists. And then all of a sudden, I start discussing the songs of some other artist.
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Iskaa kyaa matlab hai
Posted on: February 28, 2011
“Sanam” (1951) had Suraiyya, Dev Anand, Meena Kumari, K N Singh, Gope, Pratima Devi, Jillo etc in it. In addition to being a box office hit, this movie was a musical blockbuster. I have already discussed five songs from this movie.
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Lyrics of this song have been provided by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog
It may be unimaginable today for the present generation, but when India became independent over six decades ago, the country was industrially undeveloped and there was hardly any infrastructure to speak of. Indian leadership of that time decided that India needed to adopt the Soviet Union model of planned economy for nation building. Accordingly, there used to be five year plans those days and based on the decisions taken for these five year plans, various infrastructure projects were undertaken.
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Pyaar ki peer suhaani suhaani
Posted on: February 27, 2011
“Bilwamangal” (1954) is a movie that was made on the life of the blind poet of middle ages, namely Surdas, and the title role of Surdas was played by K C Dey, who himself was blind, just like Surdas.
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I keep discoving forgotten songs from forgotten movies quite regularly. Here is one such song that I discovered a few hours ago.
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I have discussed a song from “Goonj” (1952) in the past. Here is another song from this movie.
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