Archive for the ‘Songs of 1952’ Category
Ye chaand sitaare kyaa jaanen
Posted on: January 2, 2011
“Khoobsoorat” (1952) is one of the obscure movies with Madan Mohan’s music in it. I have little idea about the cast of this movie, but I find that this movie has a song sung by Suraiyya. This tells me that Suraiyya was clearly there in this movie as the leading lady. And this also tells me that Madan Mohan in that case had a few of his songs sung by Suraiyya too.
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Laadley so jaa
Posted on: January 2, 2011
Most movies in which Madan Mohan composed movies ended up as box office disasters. Many of these movies are today remembered mainly for their music rather than for anything else. And what timeless music these movies had !
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Madan Mohan composed music in as many as 92 movies in his career as a music director. When I look back, I find that I have discussed Madan Mohan songs from as many as 64 movies in this blog. It means that songs from 28 movies are yet to be represented. With this realisation, now I am motivated to discuss Madan Mohan songs from the missing movies.
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Sajjad Hussain, regarded as the only original music director of Hindi movies, was a temperamental genius who would brook no interference in his creative work and leave movies in a huff if he felt that his producers were interfering in his work. As a result, there are several movies where he composed one or two songs before he would leave the movie.
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“Naubahaar” (1952) was a musical blockbuster and critics continued to rave about the songs of this movie for decades. I, who disliked old songs as a pre teen kid had also read about the songs of “Naubahaar” in 1970s.
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Mere chaand mere laal re
Posted on: December 19, 2010
Suraiyya was already a star (in singing as well as acting) when Lata was struggling to find a foothold in Hindi movie playback singing. When she established herself in late 1940s, she soon became the number one and never looked back since.
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“Alladin And The Wonderful Lamp” (1952) was a Wadia Movietone movie based on the well known Arabian Night tale. In this movie, Mahipal and Meena Kumari play the lead roles.
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“Alladin And The Wonderful Lamp” (1952) was a fantasy movie based on the well known Arabian nights tale. This Wadia movietone movie had Mahipal and Meena Kumari in lead roles.
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When Dilip Kumar began his career as a lead actor in Hindi movies, Talat Mehmood gave playback for him. It was from mid 1950s onwards that Rafi became his (and for that matter every one’s) voice.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs
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