Archive for the ‘Songs of 1954’ Category
Sare mehfil jo jalaa parwaanaa
Posted on: September 15, 2010
Indian folklore has some well known love stories like “Laila Majnu”, “Shirin Farhad” etc. and Hindi movie makers tend to make movies on these characters on quite a regular basis. We had quite a few movies on them from 1940s till 1970s.
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Here is a rare song from an obscure movie called “Lakeeren” (1954). This movie had Asok Kumar, Nalini Jaiwant, Pran, Cuckoo,Tiwari etc in it.
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I have posted three songs from “Mirza Ghalib” (1954) in the past. It seems that there are readers who are aware of more songs from this movie.
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Kishore Kumar is today known as one of the legendary singers of Hindi movies. But that is not how he was known till late 1960s. Till then, he was a middling actor-singer in Hindi movies who would act in movies and sing for himself. In addition, he would sing songs mainly for Dev Anand, courtesy his mentor S D Burman.
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When one speaks of a movie called “Parichay”, one means “Parichay” (1972) starring Jeetendra and Jaya Bhaduri. But there was another movie of the same name in 1954. This forgotten movie had actors like Abhi Bhattacharya, Pranoti Ghosh, Shashikala etc in this movie.
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“Mastaanaa” (1954) was a movie starring Motilal, Nigar Sultana, Chandrashekhar,Kuldip Kaur, Sundar,Gope etc.
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Thanks to the farmaish by my readers, I have realised that “Mastaana” (1954) has some nice songs in it. When I listened to this song from “Mastaana” (1954), I realised that I had hit a goldmine.
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Kahin door koyaliyaa gaaye re
Posted on: August 2, 2010
Here is another song that I first became aware of only a few hours ago.
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Jaayen to jaayen kahaan
Posted on: July 28, 2010
I was under the impression that I had posted this song long back, but as is usual with me, I was wrong. I was reminded through farmaishes for this song that I needed to post this song.
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“Naagin” (1954) has so many songs that it is easy to lose track of them. And there are songs which seem like extensions of earlier songs. For instance, the song “teri yaad mein jalkar dekh liyaa” is immediately followed by “Oonchi oonchi duniyaa ki ” song.
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