Archive for the ‘Songs of 1950s (1951 to 1960)’ Category
“Nayi Raahein” (1959) is an obscure movie that few people today are aware of. This movie had Ashok Kumar and Geeta Bali in lead roles.
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Though I am aware of most songs from “Mother India” (1957), I was just not aware about this song from the movie. In fact, I was not aware that Manna Dey had sung a song in this movie.
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Teri shokh nazar ka ishaaraa
Posted on: February 17, 2011
Lyrics for this song are provided by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor of lyrics for this blog
By now, most music lovers who are a regular of this blog must have come to the same conclusion about Chitragupta as I have concluded- that he was a grossly underrated and underutilised music director. Most of his music was given in B movies which did not catch the attention of mainstream movie goers. But what music these movies had !
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Till a few hours ago,I was not aware of any songs where Madan Mohan used the voice of Hemant Kumar. Not any longer. I have now discoverd a song where Hemant Kumar indeed sings under the music direction of Madan Mohan.
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There are songs in Hindi movies that I call philosophical songs. I just realised that calling them spiritual songs is a better description of those songs. So now I have opened a new tag, viz. “Spiritual song” tag for such songs.
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Ye zindagi hai ik safar
Posted on: February 17, 2011
“Raahi” (1953) is a K A Abbas movie based on novelist Mulkraj Anand’s novel of the same name. This movie had Nalini Jaiwant, Dev Anand, Balraj Sahni etc in it.
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Here is an obscure song from an obscure movie. This song is a movie opening song in the sense that this song plays in the background as the creditss roll on the screen. And the credits roll on the screen rather interestingly too.
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Chhedo dhun matwaalon ki
Posted on: February 16, 2011
This post is written by Raja, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie songs and a regular contributor of writeups to this blog
I have talked before about the thrill of locating some of the less-known songs of your childhood days on the internet. You probably know just the first couple of lines, you may not even know any details more than this but you last heard the song in your childhood.
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Ae meri maut thahar
Posted on: February 16, 2011
I am not much familiar with this movie called “Paayal” (1957) even though I have already discussed two songs from this movie in the past. This movie had Sunil Dutt and Padmini in lead roles.
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Zindagi bhar japab tohaar naam
Posted on: February 16, 2011
“Champaakali” (1957) is a movie starring Bharat Bhushan, Suchitra Sen, Shubha Khote etc. This movie is known for some Hemant Kumar songs including the well known song Chhup gaya koyi re door se pukaar ke. I have in fact discussed as many as three songs from this movie in the past.
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