Archive for the ‘Songs of 1951’ Category
Chaand ki sundar nagri mein
Posted on: July 10, 2009
“Dholak” (1951) was an amazing musical blockbuster and I am realising this fact only just now. An interesting fact about this musical blockbuster is that the songs of this movie were sung by not one or two established singers, but by several singers. The variety that they brought to the songs of this movie was just wonderful.
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Chhun chhun chhun baaje paayal
Posted on: July 6, 2009
“Ham Log” reminds most people of the first mega serial on Indian TV that was telecast on state run Doordarshan in mid 1980s. But there was a movie of this name as way back as 1951.
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Man mein kisi ki preet basaa le
Posted on: July 5, 2009
Bollywood movies have created some big myths which is now believed by everyone. One such myth is that it is possible to sit on a grand piano and play it while singing a song. In reality, playing such a big piano is so difficult that a player playing it can in no way sing as well. But our Bollywood heroes are shown merrily singing away while playing the piano, which incidentally is shown creating music of all other instuments, viz violin, guitar, dholak, flute, etc in addition to its own music.
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I have posted a great song from “Dholak” (1951) in the past which was sung by Sulochana Kadam. I just now came across another superb song from the same movie.
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I keep stumbling upon rare gems. But this gem is something different altogether.
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O pi pi piyaa
Posted on: July 3, 2009
Though Kishore Kumar had made his singing debut in “Ziddi”(1948) three years ago under the music direction of Khemchand Prakash, it was in 1950s that he was taken by S D Burman under his wings. It was then that Kishore Kumar developed his unique singing style.
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This movie “Madhosh” (1951) was one of the earliest movies of Madan Mohan as a music director and also Meena Kumari as an actress. This movie had Manhar Desai, Meena Kumari and Usha Kiran in lead roles.
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Roop ki dushman paapi duniyaa
Posted on: May 27, 2009
In Bollywood movies, western music was used as early as 1940s itself. Early pioneers of this kind of music were C Ramchandra, Vinod etc.
Here we find Naushad using “western” kind of music. In fact it is more like a fusion of desi and western music.
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There have been many Lata-Madan Mohan classics. Most of these were recorded in 1960s.
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Laakh zamaane waale
Posted on: May 8, 2009
Here is a song from “Baazi” (1951). It is sung by Geeta Roy ( later Dutt). Sahir Ludhianvi is the lyricist and S D Burman is the music director.
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