Archive for the ‘Songs of 1953’ Category
“Anarkali” (1953) is full of iconic songs. I have discussed as many as six songs from this movie in the past, but there are still songs (that too iconic songs) that are not yet covered.
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In 1950s, Talat Mehmood, then a leading playback singer, also tried his hands in acting. He started played leading roles in several movies.
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Tumse hai pyaar mujhe
Posted on: December 4, 2010
In Hindi movies, lyrics tended to be laden with Urdu words mainly because the major lyricists of that time were more comfortable with Urdu words than Sanskrit origin Hindi words. The plea was that simple words were needed for the movies. Ironically, the words used in Hindi movie songs were not really common man’s words for those whose mother tongue was Hindi. So Hindi speakers had difficulty understanding many words in Hindi movies.
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In early 1950s, movies like “Jhamela” and “jhaanjhar” were produced and the songs of these movies were big rage. No one remembers these movies though. The reason is, the prints of these movies were destroyed in a fire that took place in the place where the prints of these movies were kept.
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“Aagosh” (1953), a forgotten movie by now, had Nasir Khan, Nutan and Shakila.
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“Baaraati” (1954) is an obscure movie that starred Agha,Chand Usmani, Sham Kumar,Om Prakash etc. Few people remember this movie today. The songs of this movie are nice songs to listen to, though.
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Muhabbat ek sholaa hai
Posted on: November 17, 2010
“Aagosh” (1953) was a movie starring Nasir Khan (Dilip Kumar’s brother), Nutan,Shakeela, Agha etc. Today this movie may not be much known, but its songs were quite popular during its time.
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“Anarkali” (1953) was the first movie made on the tale of Salim and Anarkali,”Mughal e Azam” (1960) being the second such movie.
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I am aware of movies called “Aag” and “Aah” which were produced in late 1940s and early 1950s/ respectively. Another movie of a similar sounding title, viz “Aas” was also produced in the same era. This movie had Shekhar and Kamini Kaushal in it.
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Kisi ne apna banaa ke mujhko
Posted on: October 5, 2010
Though I have discussed over three thousands songs in this blog already, there are still a large number of great songs that are yet to be discussed. The long list of readers’ farmaish gives us a good indication of just how many great songs are yet to be covered. There are so many great songs still to be discussed, but there is only so much time in a day, that one can devote to their discussion.
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