Archive for the ‘Songs of 1952’ Category
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
In the golden era of 1950s and 60s of the Hindi film songs, Lata Mangeshkar had sung quite a large number of songs composed by almost all the renowned music directors ( of course with the exception of O P Nayyar) of that time. Many of her songs of that era are still popular. However, there were some songs she sang under the batons of C Ramchandra and Madan Mohan which were, in my view, a class by themselves. Unfortunately, some of these classy songs were from films which flopped miserably and soon they went into oblivion. With them songs from such films were almost ‘buried’ under the ‘debris’ of the new songs over a period of time like that of Harppan and Mohenjodaro civilisation.
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“Laal Kunwar” (1952) , by now a forgotten movie, was an N V M Productions movie. It was directed by Ravindra Dave. Starcast of the movie included names like Nasir Khan, Suraiyya, Jairaj, Usha Kiran, Agha, Durga Khote etc.
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Din suhaane ye mausam bahaar ka
Posted on: January 25, 2012
“Poonam” (1952) is a movie which was produced by Kayarts and directed by M Sadiq. Starcast of the movie consisted of names like Ashok Kumar, Kamini Kaushal, Om Prakash, Sajjan, Asha Mathur etc.
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“Saaqi” (1952) is a movie which was produced by Talwar Films and directed by H S Rawail. The starcast of the movie included names like Premnath, Madhubala, Cuckoo, Bipin Gupta, Iftekhar, Gope, Mohana, Randhir, Mumtaz, Uma Dutt etc.
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“Poonam”(1952) is a movie produced by Kay Arts. P N Arora was the producer and M Sadiq directed the movie. The star cast included names like Ashok KUmar, Kamini Kaushal, Sajjan, Omprakash, Asha Mathur etc.
I have discussed as many as five songs from this movie in the past. Here is another song from the movie.
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“Naubahaar” (1952) was a production of New Premier Films. Ashok Kumar and M S Ahluwalia had jointly produced the movie. Anand Kumar was the director of this movie. Star cast of the movie included names like Ashok Kumar, Nalini Jaiwant, Jagdish Sethi, Badri Prasad, Sunalini Devi, Kuldip Kaur, Randhir, Shivraj, Pesi Patel etc.
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Shaam suhaanee nadee ke kinaarey
Posted on: January 3, 2012
“Nishaan Danka” (1952) is a movie that few people may be aware of. This movie was a Vikas Prodctions presentation. It was directed by Jayant Desai. The star cast of the movie was quintessentially B grade, consisting of Ranjan, Shyama,Jeevan, Baby Tabassum etc.
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Jai Jagdeesh harey
Posted on: November 25, 2011
“Anand Math” (1952) is a novel written by Bankimchandra Chattopadhyay which was first published in 1882. This novel served as a major source of inspiration for Indian freedom fighters against the British rulers. The British rulers banned this novel and this ban was lifted only after India gained independence. “Vandematram”, a song contained in the novel became Indian’s national song.
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By now I am coming round to the view that obscure B grade movies could well outnumber the well known A grade movies as far as old Hindi movies are concerned. Music of such movies could well turn out to be a treasure trove that has not yet been fully discovered. I continue to find one gem after another when I look for songs from such forgotten movies.
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