Archive for the ‘Songs of 1953’ Category
Lag gayin ankhiyaan tumse mori
Posted on: February 19, 2011
“Jeewan Jyoti” (1953) is a movie that had Shammi Kapoor, Chand Usmani, Shashikala etc in it. Personally I am not much aware of this movie. In fact, I am not much aware of its songs too. Or so I thought. Just a few hours ago, I stumbled upon this song, which I had heard many a times without being aware of its details. This time I realised that this song was from “Jeewan Jyoti” (1953). In fact, I thought that this song, which is fairly well known, was already in this blog. But I was wrong in my assumption, of course.
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“Maashooqaa” (1953) is a movie that starred Mukesh, Suraiyya, Agha, Durga Khote, Kuldeep Kaur etc. I have discussed three songs from this movie in the past. Here is another song from this movie.
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Ye zindagi hai ik safar
Posted on: February 17, 2011
“Raahi” (1953) is a K A Abbas movie based on novelist Mulkraj Anand’s novel of the same name. This movie had Nalini Jaiwant, Dev Anand, Balraj Sahni etc in it.
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Here is an obscure song from an obscure movie. This song is a movie opening song in the sense that this song plays in the background as the creditss roll on the screen. And the credits roll on the screen rather interestingly too.
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Anokhaa jaadoogar Bhagwaan
Posted on: February 13, 2011
The 1975 blockbuster movie “Sholay” needs no introduction, but few people are aware that a movie of the same name was also made in 1953. This movie “Shole” (1953) had Ashok Kumar ,Beena Rai ,Poornima ,Manmohan Krishna ,Jeewan ,Mirza Musharraf,Baby Naaz etc in it.
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“Husn Ka Chor”(1953) was a Wadia movietone movie, starring Mahipal and Usha Kiran. The movie as well as its music have become too obscure to find with time.
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Ajab tori duniyaa ho more Rama
Posted on: January 29, 2011
“Do Beegha Zameen” (1953) was one of the first Hindi movies to win international acclaim (At Cannes Film festival), in addition to sweeping the awards at the inaugural Filmfare awards.
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Kabhi ye to mujhse poochho
Posted on: January 23, 2011
Look what I just discovered. While looking for some other songs,I just stumbled against a rare gem !
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Thumak thumak chali Kaamini
Posted on: January 23, 2011
While looking for some other songs to discuss, I have come across this wonderful song about which I knew nothing. This song is from a forgotten movie called “Ek Do Teen” (1953). This movie had Motilal,Meena Shorey,Om Prakash,Indira Bansal,Majnu, Yashodhara etc in it.
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Though I have discussed nearly 20 % of all the Madan Mohan songs already, there are still lots and lots of Madan Mohan songs that are yet to come to my notice. I have so far discussed songs from 67 movies in which Madan Mohan composed movies. It means that as many as 25 movies with Madan Mohan’s music are still to get covered in this blog.
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