Archive for the ‘Songs of 1952’ Category
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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Mohabbat tark ki maine
Posted on: October 25, 2011
Today (25th october) is the death anniversary of Sahir Ludhianvi. Sahir Ludhainvi, a stormy petrel among Hindi movie lyricists, stirred quite a few hornets’ nests’ during his time, which are well documented and which have been discussed in this blog too from time to time.
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“Nirmal” (1952) is a movie that I knew nothing about. This obscure movie was produded by Shankar Theatre and directed by S Upendra. the star cast of the movie included Amarnath, Shanta Kanwar, Purnima, Shyam Kumar, Mirza Musharaf, Habib, Cuckoo etc.
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“Kaafilaa” (1952) was a Munshi Productions movie. It was directed by Arvind Sen and the star cast of the movie included names like Ashok Kumar, Nalini Jaywant, Motilal, Amrita, Nazir Hussain, Sunalini Devi, Anant Prabhu, Mumtaz, Ranjan etc in it.
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Raat abhi baaqi hai
Posted on: October 12, 2011
“Baghdad” (1952) is a B grade Hindi movie starring Bhagwan, Begam Para, Bharti Devi, Hari Shivdasani, Anwar Hussain etc. While discussing one song from this movie, I had mentioned the fact that obscure movies like this tended to have A grade music.
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This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Zalzalaa (1952), is film produced under the banner of Art Films of Asia Ltd. It is produced and directed by Paul Zils. Paul was a German filmmaker who made India his home for more than two decades from mid 40s to the 60s. He is credited with the rejuvenation of India’s documentary film movement, after the departure of the British in 1947, and a prime moving force behind the Films Division of govt. of India (which was known as Information Films of India under the British regime).
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“Tamasha” (1952) was a Bombay talkies production. It was directed by Phani Majumdar. The star cast of this movie had Ashok Kumar, Dev Anand, Kishore Kumar, Meena Kumari, Krishnakant, Haroon, Sunalini Devi, Randhir, Kaushalya, S. N. Banerjee, Shivraj, Amit Bose, Bipin Gupta etc.
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Jeewan naiyya behti jaaye
Posted on: September 23, 2011
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Pankaj Babu’s last association with Hindi film world was in 1954. After the film Kasturi, in 1954 he did not work for any more Hindi films. His association with the Bengali cinema lasted for some more years, till 1972, beyond which he was content with the peace, and with teaching music. The Padam Shri award for this remarkable musician came in 1970, followed in 1972 by Dada Saheb Phalke award for lifetime contribution to Indian Cinema.
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“Goonj” (1952) was a Kwatra Art Production movie. It was directed by Phani Majumdar. The movie had Bhagwan, Suresh, Suraiya, Sapru, Majnu, Madan Puri, Randhir, Ravikant etc in it.
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