Archive for the ‘Songs of 1950s (1951 to 1960)’ Category
“Love In Shimla” (1960) has a song that is basically a recitation of the Urdu alphabet that goes “Alif Zabar aa alif zer ae alif pesh o” which is sort of like ” A se anaar aa se aam” of Hindi or “A for apple B for Bat…” in English. For one who has studied Urdu, writing down the lyrics of this song would be a cakewalk. I am not familiar with the Urdu alphabet and as a result, the lyrics of this song is Greek (rather Urdu) to me. I had planned to post this song in the past, but I could not do so mostly because I was unable to follow the lyrics.
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The revised writeup of this song is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie songs and a regular contributor to this song.
As one looks back on the history of cinema, one finds that even the main line actors who are considered A grade, and the movies sell by their name, also end up acting in movies that are obscure and did not catch the attention at the box office. This movie, Ek Ka Baad Ek, from 1960, is one such movie of Dev Anand. By the time this movie was released, Dev Anand was an established and expensive star with a huge number of hits from the 1950s behind him. Then in 1960, he acted in this movie whose rest of the star cast included Sharda, Heeralal, Tarla, Prabhu Dayal, SK Prem, Radha Kishen, Madhu Apte, Ravi Kant etc. The actress Sharda mentioned here is the elder sister of actor Vinod Mehra, who made his mark on the screen about a decade and a half later. From the memoriam message displayed at the beginning of the movie, this is the last movie that the great actor Radhakishen appeared in. In fact this movie is produced by his son but unfortunately, Radhakishen himself could not live long enough to see its release.
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Jhilmil taare karen ishaare sojaa
Posted on: June 27, 2010
I have posted two rare songs from a rare movie called “Mashukaa” (1953) which was a home production of Mukesh. In this movie, Mukesh and Suraiyya were the lead actors, and naturally they had sung for themselves in this movie.
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Chal mere ghode tik tik tik
Posted on: June 26, 2010
(This song review is by Greta (Memsaab) who recently reviewed this movie in her blog.)
I had no idea when I first saw and heard this enchanting song a week ago that it is an integral part of Indian childhood. In the wake of my movie review, many people commented that they knew and loved the song but hadn’t known that it was a film song. Not only is the music beautiful (I’m still singing the refrain over and over), but the picturization of it is sublime. I had to rewind and watch the song two or three times before I could move on to the rest of the film.
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mere man mein uthhe umang balam
Posted on: June 26, 2010
Yesterday I posted a song from “Mashukaa” (1953) and it was pointed out to me that this movie had Suraiyya as female lead and there must be songs sung by her in this movie too, that need to be posted.
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Tu hi bataa de mujhko ae dil
Posted on: June 25, 2010
Kasturi (1954) is a forgotten movie by now. This movie had actors like Sajjan, Nimmi, Bipin Gupta and even Helen.
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After Mukesh had become a well known singer in late 1940s and early 1950s, he tried to become a hero and tried his hand in acting. He in fact began to produce movies as well with himself as hero.
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Thandi hawaayen lahraa ke aayen
Posted on: June 25, 2010
Here is a song that is nearly sixty years old, but it sounds as fresh as ever.
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When I looked at the list of the old farmaishes for songs, I found that this song from “Mughal e Azam” (1960) was not yet posted. all these days, I was under the impression that I had already posted this song.
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Zulfon ki sunahri chhaaon tale
Posted on: June 19, 2010
In old Bollywood movies, actors were often seen singing while playing a grand piano. Songs like that to me were unrealistic, because firstly, it is not possible to play that huge instument while singing a song at the same time. And secondly, expecting the lead actors to possess a huge grand piano, as well as a huge mansion to accomodate the said piano was unrealistic to my mind.
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