Archive for the ‘Songs of 1950s (1951 to 1960)’ Category
Kaare badraa tu na jaa na jaa
Posted on: September 3, 2010
Reading the song “kaare badraa tu na jaa na jaa” may not ring a bell if one has not heard this song before. But once the song begins, one wonders how a song like this has managed to remain so well hidden from public ears.
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Ab to aa jaao balam
Posted on: September 3, 2010
Few People of my generation may have heard of this movie called “Poonam” (1952) and same is the case as far as the songs of this movie are concerned. But when I listened to the songs of this movie, I was quite impressed.
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Kishore Kumar is today known as one of the legendary singers of Hindi movies. But that is not how he was known till late 1960s. Till then, he was a middling actor-singer in Hindi movies who would act in movies and sing for himself. In addition, he would sing songs mainly for Dev Anand, courtesy his mentor S D Burman.
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Taqdeer ka shiqwaa kaun kare
Posted on: September 2, 2010
I had never heard of this movie called “Poonam” (1952). Now I have found that it was a movie starring Ashok Kumar, Kamini Kausal, Asha Mathur etc.
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Dil matwaalaa laakh sambhaalaa
Posted on: September 1, 2010
I think I am familiar with most movies starring Raj Kapoor and Nargis, but even I was stumped when I came across this movie called “Bewafaa” (1952). This movie is not all that well known, which means that this movie did not do all that well.That way, this movie suffered the same fate as “Aashinaa”, another Raj Kapoor-Nargis starrer.
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Koi nahin mera iss duniyaa mein
Posted on: September 1, 2010
When one looks at songs that end up as timeless songs, sad songs will form a good proportion of these songs. Lyrics of these songs contribute the most in making these songs memorable.
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Beet gayi hai aadhi raat
Posted on: August 31, 2010
In my definition, Chaayaageet song is one which is sung in the period between 10 PM to midnight. :D. That way, a song talking about a period after midnight is not a chaagyaageet song. May be I should call such a song as “post Chaayaageet period” song.
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Khushiyon ko lootkar yahaan
Posted on: August 31, 2010
In Indian history/mythology/ folk tales, we have been handed down a few love stories, viz “Shirin Farhad”, “Sohni-Mahiwaal”,”Laila-Majnu” etc. All these love stories have one thing in common. And it is the tragic nature of these stories. And that is to be expected seeing that the ground reality in Indian culture does not allow people of opposite genders to openly interacts and fall in love with each other.
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Sad songs form an important genre of songs in Hindi movies. And it is noticed that many of such songs go on to become timeless classics.
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