Archive for the ‘Songs of 1954’ Category
Kaisee laagee karejwaa kataar
Posted on: January 20, 2026
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6395 | Post No. : | 19837 |
Today’s song is from a social film Ferry aka Kashti-1954.
Produced and directed by Hemen Gupta for his own banner Film trust of India, Bombay, the film had music by hemant kumar. In this film, his assistant was Ravi (Ravi Shankar Sharma), who soon made his Debut as an independent Music Director with the film ” Vachan “-1955. However, for many films even after ‘Vachan’, he continued to be an assistant to Hemant Kumar. Wherever possible, he also used Hemant Kumar as a Playback singer in the films wherein he was the Music Director.
The cast of the film was Geeta Bali, Dev Anand, Ram Singh, Gulab, Chand Burke, Premlata, Janaki Das, Master Babu, Baby Bula and many others. Geeta Bali’s name appeared before Dev’s, because this was her 48th film compared to 35th film of Dev Anand, thus she was senior.
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6394 | Post No. : | 19834 |
Today ‘s song is a typical 1950’s Fun song from a Mythological film – Durga Pooja-1954.
The film was produced by Dhirubhai Desai and his son Sharad Desai for their family banner Sharad Productions, Bombay. The director of this film was Dhirubhai Desai. Music Director was a veteran of such films – S.N.Tripathi. He used 4 lyricists for the film’s 10 songs namely, Bharat Vyas (3 songs), G.S.Nepali (2), B.D.Mishra (3) and Saraswati Kumar ‘Deepak’ (2). The cast included Nirupa Roy, Trilok Kapoor, Shahu Modak, Kamal( wife of comedian actor Maruti), Yashodhara Katju, Ratnamala, S.N.Tripathi, Rajkumar Khatri, Indira Bansal, Yashwant Dave etc.
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6383 | Post No. : | 19795 |
“Kavi”(1954) was directed by Debki Bose for sunrise Pictures, Bombay. The movie had Bharat Bhushan, Geeta Bali, Nalini Jaywant, Chandrashekhar, B M Vyas, Jankidas, Om Prakash etc in it.
The movie had ten songs in it. Six songs have been discussed in the blog in the past.
Here is the seventh song from “Kavi”(1954) to appear in the blog. This song is sung by C Ramchandra and Asha Bhonsle. Rajinder Krishan is the lyricist. Music is composed by C Ramchandra.
Only audio of the song is available. From the lyrics, it is clear that the song takes a light hearted look at the “fashionable” ladies of those days. Yes, women used to be fashionable and westernised even seven decades ago. 🙂
Song-Chalee shahar kee naar ho chalee shahar kee naar (Kavi)(1954) Singers-C Ramchandra, Asha Bhonsle, Lyricist-Rajinder Krishan, MD-C Ramchandra
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Lyrics
shahar mein dekha ek tamaasha
beech sadak ik naar
shahar mein dekha ek tamaasha
beech sadak ik naar
sainya ke sang chalee ghoomne
banee galey ka haar
galey ka haar
galey ka haar
chalee shahar kee naar ho chalee shahar kee naar
chalee shahar kee naar ho chalee shahar kee naar
cigarette peetee dhuaan udaatee
rail ka jaise bamba
are mardon jaise baal kate
bhai naar hui ya khambha
cigarette peetee dhuaan udaatee
rail ka jaise bamba
are mardon jaise baal kate
bhai naar hui ya khambha
laal bahu ke gaal gulaabee
nain musaafir maar
musaafir maar
musaafir maar
chalee shahar kee naar ho chalee shahar kee naar
chalee shahar kee naar ho chalee shahar kee naar
baabu ko vo kahe darling
darling
kahaan kee hai ye bolee
baabu ko vo kahe darling
kahaan kee hai ye bolee
lamb tadanga kurta pehne
na ghoonghat na cholee
ram ram
lamb tadanga kurta pehne
na ghoonghat na cholee
maal to desee chaal bidesee
samajh na aaye yaar
na aaye yaar
na aaye yaar
chalee shahar kee naar ho chalee shahar kee naar
chalee shahar kee naar ho chalee shahar kee naar
buree hai kya phir yaaron
apne raamlal kee maa
bholee bhaalee
seedhee saadee sada kare jee haan
buree hai kya phir yaaron
apne raamlal kee maa
bholee bhaalee
seedhee saadee sada kare jee haan
arre bachche paale chauka deke
kare balam sang pyaar
balam sang pyaar
balam sang pyaar
chalee shahar kee naar ho chalee shahar kee naar
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6381 | Post No. : | 19788 |
Today’s song is a special song from a Muslim Social film – Darwaza-1954.
The film was produced by the famous writer of Urdu, Ismat Chugtai (21-8-1915 to 24-10-1991). She was the wife of this film’s director Shahid Lateef (11-6-1913 to 16-4-1967). His famous films were Naya Sansar-41, Jhoola-41, Anjaan-41, Ziddi-48, Arzoo-50, Fareb-53, Darwaza-54, Sone ki chidiya-58 and Baharen phir bhi aayengi-66. This pair of story writer, screenplay writer and producer- Ismat Chugtai and director Shahid Lateef worked in many films, including today’s film Darwaza-1954. The banner was Film India Corporation, Bombay. Music for this film was by Nashaad.
Film Darwaza-1954, true to its name, was the entry door for many artists. Singers Suman Kalyanpur and Sabita Bannerjee debuted as Hindi film singers with this film. Lyricist Khumar Barabankvi also debuted as a Lyricist with this film. The cast of the film was Shyama, Shekhar, Nazir Hussain, Leela Mishra, Neelam, Kumkum, Altaf (husband of Khurshid Jr, actress and singer as well as sister of Meena Kumari). Master Romi was a Guest artist.
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Chaman jal raha hai
Posted on: January 5, 2026
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6380 | Post No. : | 19784 |
Today’s song is from a social family drama- Bhai Saheb-1954. I have not seen this film, but as per Wiki and IMDB, the story revolves around a kind and talented man who works in Radio as a counselor for needy people and solves their problems by his means, which has a positive response. He falls in love with a sweet girl and wants to marry her but first he must complete the task of reuniting other individuals, leading to consequences. The story is not very attractive or different from normal love stories. As compared to the other musical and entertaining films of 1954, this film was actually nowhere.
The 50’s decade was called the Golden Era of HFM, not for nothing. Year after year, the films provided excellent songs, different film Genres, convincing stories, superb acting and Full Paisa Vasool Entertainment. In such a scenario an average music, beaten track stories, mediocre acting, poor direction and lustreless short lived songs had no chance of winning. Today’s film was one such film.
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6319 | Post No. : | 19565 |
Today’s song is from the film Sangam-1954.
There were 3 films with this title, made in 1941, 1954 and 1964. The 1964 film is known to all as it had all top stars of that time, in lead roles and a Raj Kapoor touch. The 1941 film was a bilingual film , in Marathi and Hindi, made by Navyug Pictures, owned by the famous Marathi writer Acharya Atre and Master Vinayak.
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6301 | Post No. : | 19501 |
“Laal Pari”(1954) was produced by Gulshan Bahl and directed by Kedar Kapoor for N C Films, Bombay. The movie had Shakeela, Mahipal, Kuldeep Kaur, Ramayan Tiwari, B. M. Vyas, Helen, Maruti, Johnny Walker etc in it.
Asad Bhopali was the lyricist and Hansraj Bahl, brother of producer Gulshan Bahl was the music director.
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Haathh jodoon painyya padoon
Posted on: October 11, 2025
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6294 | Post No. : | 19481 |
Today’s song is a duet from the religious film Tulsidas-1954.
The film was directed by B.C.Shukla and Harsukh Bhatt.
Harsukh Bhatt (24-11-2024 to 31-10-1999) was the younger brother of Vijay Bhatt of Prakash Pictures. Shukla and Harsukh had also directed one more film, Naulakha Haar-1953. Independently, Harsukh had directed 13 more films. He started his career as a director with the film Bal Yogi-1952 and his last film was Gayatri Mahima-1977. The music was by the king of melody, Chitragupt and the lyricist was G.S.Nepali. The cast of the film was Mahipal, Shyama, Dulari, Sunder, Raaj Kumar, Chaman Puri Ramji, Uma Dutt, Sitaram and many more.
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6245 | Post No. : | 19313 |
Today’s song is from the ” Kam sune – Unsune ” film Pensioner-1954.
When you say that ‘Colgate is No. 1 Toothpaste’, it does not mean that everyone in India uses Colgate. It only means that the majority of people use Colgate and hence it is called No. 1 toothpaste. The decade of the 1950s was known as’ The Golden Era of Film Music’. It did not mean that there were no films with mediocre or poor music. It only means maximum films had wonderful music. In this decade there were few – only few – films whose music was not famous, for whatever reasons. Today’s film was one such film.
In the war period from 1939 to 1945, the British Government in India had coaxed the filmmakers to make films which would help the war efforts. These were called ‘ Propaganda Films’ and the Government gave special subsidies and other concessions ( like extra quota of Raw Film at control rates) to the producer. During the 1950s the Indian Government wanted to boost the ‘Small Savings’ habit among the citizens. Some films were made upholding this scheme. Today’s film Pensioner-1954 was one such film.
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