Archive for the ‘Songs of 1952’ Category
In my bid to discuss all the Sajjad Hussain songs, I have made considerable progress. I have so far discussed as many as 40 songs, which is a big figure, considering that Sajjad Hussain composed only about 100 songs in Hindi movies.
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When one searches for forgotten gems from old Hindi movies,one does not have to dig deep. Scratch the surface and one can unearth a treasure of high quality gems lying all over.
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Barbaad huyi dil ki duniyaa
Posted on: October 29, 2010
Not too many people are aware of this movie called “Jalpari” (1952). But I have found that this movie has some superb songs in it.
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I had neither heard of this movie called “Neelam Pari” (1952) nor its songs till today. I heard this song for the first time just now and I decided that I needed to post this song in the blog.
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I was under the impression that I had posted this song already. But when I checked up, I find that I was wrong.
This is a song from “Deewaana” (1952). The lyrics “tasweer banaataa hoon teri khoone jigar se” came a couple of years prior to a fairly silmilarly worded song Tasweer banata hoon tasweer nahin banti(Baradari).
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Aag lagi tan man mein
Posted on: September 19, 2010
In “Aan” (1952) stern faced Nadira played the female lead opposite Dilip Kumar. This movie had several songs in it. The songs sung by Male voice has been lip synced by Dilip Kumar but the female songs are mostly sung by maid servants of Nadira and not by Nadira herself.
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Aayi aayi raat suhaani
Posted on: September 18, 2010
Here is a delightful song that has two versions. In the first version, Kamini Kaushal, who finds a young girl, who is separated from her mother, and she calms her nerves by singing this song which acts as a lullaby to the girl.
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In Hindi movies of yore, Hero is shown seated on the piano and singing a song. I for instance recall Dilip Kumar perpetually seated on a grand piano in the movie “Andaaz” (1949). 😀
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Ab to aa jaao balam
Posted on: September 3, 2010
Few People of my generation may have heard of this movie called “Poonam” (1952) and same is the case as far as the songs of this movie are concerned. But when I listened to the songs of this movie, I was quite impressed.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs
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