Archive for the ‘Songs of 1950s (1951 to 1960)’ Category
Here is an absolutely delightful song from “Baiju Baawraa” (1952). I have listened to this song many a times, and still I was not clear which movie this song was from.
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Soch samajh kar dil ko lagaana
Posted on: September 13, 2009
Here is a “party” song from “Jaal” (1952). It is the kind of song that would later become Cabarat songs in 1960s.
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“Kavi Kalidas” (1959) was a movie that was not a mainstream movie, rather the so called B grade movie. These were low budget movies whose subjects were often mythology . This particular movie, as its name suggests was the tale of the great Sanskrit poet Kalidas.
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The present generation of people are aware that India became an independent country in 1947 and a democracy in 1950, but it is difficult for them to imagine the changes, trannsformations, upheavals and paradigm shifts that the general poplulation had to suffer in the earlier years of this newly independent nation.
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Ye raah badi mushqil hai
Posted on: September 13, 2009
Listen to this song and one may think that this is an O P Nayyar composition. I thought so too. But when I found out the details of this song, I found that this song was composed by Madan Mohan.
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I thought that Shammi Kapoor and Vyjyantimala acted together for the first time only towards the fag end of their careers, viz in late 1960s, but now I find that they had acted together in their heydays as well. Yes, they acted together in “College Girl” (1960).
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“Inspector” (1956) is an obscure movie which few people know about. This movie had Ashok Kumar and Geeta Bali in lead roles.
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In Bollywood movies, music directors tended to create songs based on the range and singing ability of the singers. Singers with lesser range and lesser singing abilities got simpler songs to sing, whereas singers with greater skills were often asked to sing difficult songs.
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Hamaari gali aana
Posted on: September 11, 2009
“Mem Sahib”(1956) was a delightful movie that is guaranteed to warm the cockles of the listeners and watchers of this movie. This lovely movie had Kishore Kumar, Meena Kumari ( in a bubbly role), and Shammi Kapoor.
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It is difficult to associate Guru Dutt with anything but a sad song, that too in a movie like “Pyyasa”. But it is a fact that he does not just sing melancholic songs in this movie. He sings romantic songs as well, difficult though it may be to believe.
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