Archive for the ‘Songs of 1953’ Category
There are songs which people may have heard for the last time several decades ago, or perhaps they may have never heard them before. Listening to such songs are like stumbling upon a long lost acquaintance, or like meeting someone whom you should have known much earlier.
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Nashaad, not to be confused with Naushad, was born as Shaukat Ali. He began his career as a music director in Hindi movies in 1947. In his earlier movies, he was variously known as Shaukat Ali, Shaukat Dehalvi, Shaukat Hussain, Shaukat Haidari, Shaukat Hussain Haidari etc. It was in 1953 that film director cum lyricist Nakshab Jarachavi coined the name Nashad for him. The name brought him luck. In fact this name was adopted by his family members as their surname the way the desendents of music director Roshan adopted the name Roshan (first name of Roshanlal Nagrath) as their surname.
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“Aabsaar” (1953) is not a movie too many people have heard of. Hardly any information is available about this movie on internet. So it is obvious that this movie may have been a commercial failure at the box office.
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Aa jaane wafaa aa
Posted on: November 23, 2011
“Anarkali” (1953) is a musical blockbuster which has great songs following one after another. The music of this movie is composed by C Ramchandra.
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“Husn Ka Chor” (1953) is not a movie that too many people have heard of. It was a quintessential B grade movie. Information about such movies are conspicuous by their absence on internet.
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This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Arun ji,
Waah Waah Waah,
Kyaa hi laajawaab yaad taaza karaayee hai aap ne.
When I read your comment on the farmaishes, I was not able to immediately connect with the song, but when I went back to my collection and pulled out, the song just bowled me over once again. What a rhythm, what a pace, what a wonderful play of words – a song that really makes one want to do a tap dance. Wow and wow. 😀
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“Dana Pani” (1953) is a sunrise pictures production. it was directed by V M Vyas and the movie had actors like Wasti,Meena Kumari, Shashi Kapoor (?), Weera, Chhagan, Romeo, Radha Krishnan, Chitra etc in it, according to what I have been able to gather.
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“Husn Ka Chor” (1953) is a quintessential B grade movie which was a Basant Pictures presentation. It was directed by J B H Wadia. The movie had Lalita Kumari, Mahipal, Arti, Usha Kiran, Babu Raje, Jiji Goldstein, Sharda, B. M. Vyas, Dalpat, Sardar Mansoor, Raja Sandow, Mithu Miya etc. in it.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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