Archive for the ‘Songs of 1952’ Category
I have posted a few songs from “Parchhaain” (1952). What awesome songs this movie has !
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Jab se pi sang nainaa laage
Posted on: November 8, 2009
Ever since Bollywood movies came into being, gossiping about the movies personalities and about their controversies have been a major activity of movie magazaines and other such publications. Often, some author would write something about some person purely from his fertile imagination and that would then become gospel for all times to come.
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Identifying an O P Nayyar tune is easy for music buffs, but even music buffs will have difficulty believing that this song was composed by O P Nayyar.
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Dekho jaadu bhare more nain
Posted on: November 6, 2009
The first movie of O P Nayyar as a music director was “Aasmaan” (1952). In this movie he had created songs that were diferent from his music of later movies. In this movie , he used the voices of Geeta Dutt, Raj Kumari and C H Atma.
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Pighlaa hai sonaa door gagan par
Posted on: November 3, 2009
Earlier I had posted a song from “Jaal” (1952) which was sung by Lata. Now I have found that there is another Lata song in this movie, and like the earlier song, this song too is “new” for me.
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Hans le gaa le dhoom machaa le
Posted on: November 2, 2009
I have posted a few songs from “Jaal” (1952) but I was not aware of this song.
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“Raag rang” (1952) is one movie about which very little is known today. The only thing that I know about this movie is that it had music by Roshan and that Geeta Bali was the lead actress in this movie.
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Sharma ke zara ae mast adaa
Posted on: October 6, 2009
Mythological movies,Historical movies and Arabian nights movies were regarded as B grade movies in Bollywood till 1970s. But many of these movies were produced with good production values. And when it came to their music, the music was as outstanding as any A grade movies.
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While listeneing to the songs of old movies, we often praise the singer and/ or the music director, but many of us tend to underestimate the contribution of the lyricist. However great a tune, or however wonderful a voice may be, unless the singer gets a good well written song, it is not very likely that the song is going to catch the imagination of the public.
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Roshan made his debut at nearly the same time as most legendary singers (Rafi, Mukesh, Kishore Kumar etc). But is is interesting to note that Roshan used Kishore Kumar’s voice only 8 times, all all these songs were in 1952 and 1953.
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