Archive for the ‘Songs of 1950s (1951 to 1960)’ Category
Darshan pyaasi aayi daasi
Posted on: January 12, 2010
When I watch many movie titles and story lines of old movies, I notice that many of them could not be made today because they would be regarded as politically incorrect in these days of being politically correct. I do not think we can have songs mentioning Bombay, Madras etc nor can we describe people as Junglee, blind, langdaa etc without invoking the wrath of some group of people or the other.
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” This song is like a whiff of cool breeze, or one can describe it like sea waves continuing to follow one after another. The way he has composed it is an object lesson in music composition..” It is Anil Biswas waxing eloquent about this composition of Sajjad Hussain in a radio programme.
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Naachoon re gaaun re
Posted on: January 8, 2010
I have posted as many as five songs from “Aab e Hayaat” (1955). Here is another song from this movie.
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I am vaguely aware of the movie “Insaan Jaag uthaa” (1959). Now I know that this movie had Sunil Dutt and Madhubala in lead roles. I was not aware earlier that the two had worked together in a movie.
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Muhabbat choome jinke haath
Posted on: January 5, 2010
I have posted a few songs from “Aan” (1952), but I was not aware about the existence of this song. This song is sung by Rafi and Shamshad Begam.
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O babu zara dekhtaa jaa
Posted on: January 4, 2010
I have posted a superb song from “Badaa Bhai” (1957) in the past. It appears that this forgotten movie had several nice songs in it.
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Bol ri kathputli
Posted on: January 3, 2010
I have posted a few songs from “Kathputli” (1957) in the past. Here is the title song from this movie.
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Gora badan mora umariya baali
Posted on: January 1, 2010
After posting songs at a rate of 5-6 songs a day, I found myself unable to post even one song a day in the month of December 2009. That month I posted less than 50 songs.
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I have posted one song from “Mehandi” (1958) earlier. Here is another song from this movie.
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Saawan ki aayi hai bahaar
Posted on: December 26, 2009
I was not aware of this movie called “Anjaan” (1956). This by now obscure movie has Pradeep Kumar and Vyjyanti Mala in lead roles.
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