Archive for the ‘Songs of 1951’ Category
Mohe ratiyaa neend na aaye
Posted on: August 1, 2012
These days people fight elections to come to power and once they get a taste for it, then want to cling to it at any cost. During mythological times, the King of gods, viz Lord Indra would cling to his chair like a leech. One did not have to fight elections to come to power those days. One needed to do tapasya (penance) in a jungle for long years. Whenever a tapaswi sage would decide to go to a jungle and do “tapasya”, Lord Indra would get worried, thinking that the sage was after his chair. So he would try to disrupt the “tapasya”.
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Ye baat koi samjhaaye re
Posted on: July 29, 2012
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Sandhya Mukherjee is one of the relatively lesser known playback singers of 50s as far as Hindi film industy is concerned. But she has gone on to become one of the top most playback singers of Bengali films. I first came to know about her as a playback singer when I bought a 78 RPM record (No. N. 36794) of the film ‘Sazaa’ (1951) for the iconic song ‘tum na jaane kis jahaan mein kho gaye’. The other side of the gramophone record had “aa gupchup gupchup pyaar karen” sung by Sandhya Mukherjee and Hemant Kumar. When I first listened to this song, I felt that I got a bonus song along with the iconic song of the film.
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Koi to sune mere gham ka fasaana
Posted on: July 14, 2012
“Malhaar” (1951) was a Darling Pictures Production. Mukesh was the producer of this movie and the movie was directed by Harish. The movie had Arjun Bakshi and Shammi in lead roles.
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Jab nain milen nainon se
Posted on: July 14, 2012
“Jaadu” (1951) was a Musical Pictures production. It was directed by A R Kardar. The movie had Suresh, Nalini Jaywant, Sharda, Shyam Kumar, Amanullah etc in it.
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This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
This is the story of a 16 year old boy born in Peshawar in a conservative Pathan family for whom the association with film industry was a strict taboo. The boy was attracted to Bombay (Mumbai) as a destination. While listening to some Hindi film songs in one of the shops in Peshawar, a few of his friends coaxed him to try his luck as an actor in Hindi film industry since he had a good face. The fascination for Bombay coupled with the remarks from his friends were sufficient motivational factors for this youngboy to leave ( rather run away from) Peshawar for Bombay some time in 1935. The young boy was Ghulam Mustafa Durrani (1919-1988), later known in the Hindi film industry as G M Durrani, the playback singer.
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Sitaaron chaand se keh do
Posted on: July 6, 2012
A title like “Badi Bahu” (1951)suggests that the movie must be all about self sacrificing lead female character, and that may not send people like me to eagerly look forward to watch the movie. Not by a long shot !
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Sab kuchh karna is duniya mein
Posted on: June 24, 2012
“Adaa”(1951) was produced and directed by Devendra Goel. This movie had Rehana, Shanker, Gope, Madan Puri, Mohana, Shanta Kumari etc in it.
I have discussed six songs from this movie in the past. Interestingly enough, a large number of singers were used in the songs of this movie.
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Morey tumse ulajh gaye nainaa
Posted on: June 17, 2012
“Bedardi” (1951) was a Ranjit Movietone presentation. It was directed by Kidar Sharma. The movie had Geeta Bali, Nimmi, Cuckoo, Jaswant, Amirbai Karnataki, Nazira, Manju, Rashid Khan etc in it.
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“Adaa” (1951) was produced and directed by Devendra Goel. The movie had Rehana, Shanker, Gope, Madan Puri, Mohana, Shanta Kumari etc in it.
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“Adaa” (1951) was produced and directed by Devendra Goel. It was the second venture for his production house , the first being “Aankhen” (1950).
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