Archive for the ‘Songs of 1950s (1951 to 1960)’ Category
“Albela”(1951) was the biggest hit of Bhagwan’s career. It was the first time he made an A grade movie and reaped rich dividends. It is another matter that he could not capitalise on this success and soon he was back to making B grade movies again, in addition to acting as a comedian.
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Party songs are one of the more common kind of songs in Hindi movies. Every mainstream movie tended to have a party song in it.
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In 1950s, Hindi movies tended to have intoduction songs in them in which the hero introduced himself and described his philosophy in life.
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When one searches for forgotten gems from old Hindi movies,one does not have to dig deep. Scratch the surface and one can unearth a treasure of high quality gems lying all over.
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Here it is again. One more century of songs ! Yes, this song is 3200th song of this blog !
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Aayi bahaar muskuraayi bahaar
Posted on: November 12, 2010
Here is an A grade song from a B grade movie called “Roop Kumari” (1956). This movie had Shakila and Mahipal in lead roles. Considering that the song is sung by Geeta Dutt, it can be assumed that the song was picturised on Shakila.
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Lagan tose laagi balmaa
Posted on: November 11, 2010
“Dekh Kabeeraa Royaa” (1957) has several nice songs in it. So far I have discussed three very well known songs (iconic songs) from this movie.
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Laut gayaa gham ka zamaanaa
Posted on: November 10, 2010
Most songs discussed in this blog are songs that are well known. Then there are songs that are lessser known. On the other end of the spectrum, there are songs which are so rare that not too many people are aware of their existence.
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When one looks at old movies (all over the world, not just India),one finds that the idea of political correctness was not known at that time. Moreover, many of the ideas depicted in old movies would be regarded as highly objectionable today though they were regarded as normal.
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Andher nagri chaupat raja
Posted on: November 10, 2010
Many of the songs discussed in this blog are well known songs. But in this blog, I also discuss songs that are rare and not known to many people. In fact, this blog may be one of the very few places on internet where such songs may find mention.
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