Archive for the ‘Songs of 1952’ Category
Kaun sa taara chaand ko pyaaraa
Posted on: July 20, 2012
“Zalzala” (1952) is by now an obscure movie. This movie was produced by a production house called “Art Film Of Asia”. It was directed by Paul Zills. The movie had Kishore Sahu, Dev Anand, Geeta Bali, Krishnakant, Misra, Shakoor, Raji, Sunalini Devi, Sita Bose, Michael, Manju, Jagdev etc in it.
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This article is written by Shekhar Gupta, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Directed by M.L. Anand, Bewefa (1952) was a Raj Kapoor-Nargis-Ashok Kumar love triangle. Both versions of its iconic song “Dil matwaalaa laakh sambhaalaa” rendered separately by Talat Mahmood and Lata Mangeshkar are already on this blog. Video clips of its most others numbers too are on YouTube. But the video clip of a superlative Lata number Badnaseebi kaa gilaa ai dil-e-naashaad na kar has gone missing. I am not sure if this number was only recorded but not included in the movie itself. But if it was shot, it would be reasonable to assume that it was on Nargis herself exhorting herself to desist lamenting her ill-fate.
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Raam naam Ghanshyaam naam
Posted on: July 14, 2012
This article is written by Shekhar Gupta, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Yatrik (1952) was one of New Theatres’ last productions before it went on a five-decade hibernation in 1955 after the Bengali movie Bakul.
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Nigaahen kyun milaayin thhin
Posted on: July 9, 2012
“Laal Kunwar” (1952) was a N V M Productions movie. It was directed by Ravindra Dave. The movie had Nasir Khan, Suraiya, P. Jairaj, Agha, Durga Khote, Usha Kiran etc in it.
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“Doraaha”(1952) was a Progressive Pictures Production. It was directed by Bal Chhabra. The movie had Shekhar, Nalini Jaywant, Agha, Jagdeesh Sethi, Murad etc in it.
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This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Ek gaana hai, kareeb chaalis saal puraana – “Chain Se Humko Kabhi, Aap Ne Jeene Ne Diyaa” . From the film ‘Pran Jaaye Par Vachan Na Jaaye’. And the year is 1973. Yes getting to be about 40 years ago. But listening to this song, even today – the sound, the feelings, and the words – all appear to be so young and so fresh. And the lyricist – composer pair is SH Behari and OP Nayyar. A partnership that started in the mid 50s, and flowered exceptionally in the decade of 60s to give so many memorable songs one after another.
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Dukhiyaare naina dhoondhen piyaa ko
Posted on: June 25, 2012
Today (25 june) is the birth anniversary of Madan Mohan. We in this blog already have discussed as many as 278 Madan Mohan compositions, which work out to about one third of all Madan Mohan compositions in Hindi movies. Today gives us a reason to add up a few more songs to this tally.
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“Khubsoorat” (1952) was a Fazli Brothers production. It was directed by S F Hussain. The movie had Nasir Khan, Suraiya, Yakub, Bhudo Advani, Zubeida, Jankidas etc in it.
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Saajan tumse pyaar karoon main
Posted on: June 19, 2012
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Recently, I came across a rare song ‘saajan tumse pyaar karoon main’ from the film BADNAAM (1952) sung by Lata Mangeshkar. It was written by Hasrat Jaipuri and set to music by Basant Prakash. I always felt that this talented music director belonging to the golden era of Hindi film songs was side tracked by Hindi film industry for reasons best known to them. As a result, during his 30years of active filmy career, he was the music director in about a dozen films only, some of which were joint ventures with other music directors.
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Main to Ram ratan dhan paayo
Posted on: May 28, 2012
This article is written by Shekhar Gupta, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a contributor to this blog.
Many have sung Meera bhajans – from classical greats like M.S. Subbulakshmi to Bollywood greats such as Lata Mangeshkar … and so many in between – and to their credit. But for me, Juthika Roy’s vocals and expression seem to be made for Meera bhajans. Her Meera numbers touch even my atheist heart! Juthika Roy’s private numbers are galore, but she seems to have sang for only three movies: Lalkar (1944) under the baton of C Ramchandra, Ratnadeep (1952) under Robin Chatterjee (Hindi and Bangla versions) and the Bangla movie Dhooli (1954) under Ranjan Sarkar.
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