Archive for the ‘Songs of 1950s (1951 to 1960)’ Category
Laadley so jaa
Posted on: January 2, 2011
Most movies in which Madan Mohan composed movies ended up as box office disasters. Many of these movies are today remembered mainly for their music rather than for anything else. And what timeless music these movies had !
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Madan Mohan composed music in as many as 92 movies in his career as a music director. When I look back, I find that I have discussed Madan Mohan songs from as many as 64 movies in this blog. It means that songs from 28 movies are yet to be represented. With this realisation, now I am motivated to discuss Madan Mohan songs from the missing movies.
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Sajjad Hussain, regarded as the only original music director of Hindi movies, was a temperamental genius who would brook no interference in his creative work and leave movies in a huff if he felt that his producers were interfering in his work. As a result, there are several movies where he composed one or two songs before he would leave the movie.
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It is one occasion that comes at least once evey month for this blog. And that occasion is here again. Yes, this is the occasion when this blog completes a century of songs.
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In Hindi movies, we have several songs that allude to Lord Krishna and his baansuri (flute). I wonder why I did not have a category for such songs. Indeed there are so many songs of this category that I should have thought of it. Now I have finally opened a “Baansuri” category and hopefully this will cover most songs of this genre.
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“Naubahaar” (1952) was a musical blockbuster and critics continued to rave about the songs of this movie for decades. I, who disliked old songs as a pre teen kid had also read about the songs of “Naubahaar” in 1970s.
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“Miyaan Beewi Raazi” (1960) was a small budget movie made with unknown actors like Kamini Kadam, Shrikant Gaurav, Seema, Raja Gosavi and Mehmood. This movie apparently failed at the box office, seeing that the names of the lead actors of this movie do not ring any bells.
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“Mirza Ghalib” (1954) is a movie based on the life of legendary Urdu Poet Mirza Ghalib. This movie had most of its songs based on Mirza Ghalib’s poems, so in effect, Ghalib himself is the lyricist of most songs of this movie, even though he had dead for some one hundred years by the time this movie was made.
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Tabeeyat saaf ho gayi saaf
Posted on: December 21, 2010
“Sagaai” (1951) is an action/adventure movie starring Premnath,Rehana,Purnima, Vijaylaxmi, Gope,Yaqoob,Ifteqar,Heeralal, Sundar etc. This movie has some interesting songs in it.
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“12 O’clock” (1958) is a murder mystery movie. It stars Guru Dutt, Waheeda Rehman,Rehman, Shashikala,Johny Walker etc.
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