Archive for the ‘Songs of 1952’ Category
Music director Roshan had a career as music director spanning from 1950 to 1967 and during this period he created some memorable music.
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When I was a kid, then my musical likings were very clear. I only liked new movie songs, preferably sung by Kishore Kumar. I disliked old songs, and I also disliked songs based on folk music, which I regarded as rustic music not worthy of a city slicker like me. 😉
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Mera qaraar le jaa
Posted on: April 16, 2009
I have posted two songs from “Aashiana”(1952) in ther past. One was a Lata song ( mere piya se koi jaake) and other was a Talat Mahmood song (main paagal mera manwaa paagal). Both these songs are superb memorable songs.
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Main paagal mera manwaa paagal
Posted on: April 15, 2009
Most of Madan Mohan movies were made by struggling movie makers with lesser known actors. In some cases, Madan Mohan worked with bigger names too, but that was either before these people actually became stars ( viz Amitabh Bachchan in “Parwana”) or after they had run their courses ( viz Dev Anand in “Sahib Bahadur”). The first movie where Madan Mohan got to work with big name actors was in “Madhosh” (1952) which had Raj Kapoor and Nargis. Unfortunately this movie did not do well at the box office.
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Mere piya se koi jaake kahde
Posted on: April 5, 2009
“Aashinana”(1952) was one of the earlier movies of Madan Mohan as a music director.
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Dil mein samaa gaye sajan
Posted on: March 31, 2009
I had never heard this song from “Sangdil”( 1952) before. Now I have, thanks to the farmaish by a new reader (Mr Sharma) of this blog.
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In early 1950s, when Bollywood music was breaking off from the influence of Indian classical music, many other kinds of music were influencing Bollywwod music scene. And one such kind of music was western music.
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Adaa se jhoomte huye
Posted on: March 26, 2009
Chitragupta Srivastava, better known as Chitragupta, made his debut as a music director in 1946. He had to wait for 6 years to deliver his first hit song.
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Mohabbat hi na jo samjhe
Posted on: March 19, 2009
C Ramchandra had created some very fine songs in “Parchhain” (1952) and quite a few of these songs went on to become all time classics. I have posted one such Lata classic already (“katte hai dukh me ye din”). Here is a Talat Mahmood classic from this movie this time.
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Ai mere dil kahin aur chal
Posted on: March 19, 2009
In my younger days, “Daag” to me meant the Rajesh Khanna movie released in 1970s and the songs of this movie were big hits.
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