Archive for the ‘Songs of 1954’ Category
It is said that Indians do not have sense of humour, and that is why comedy movies in India in general and Bollywood in particular have been few and far between. Movies dealing with action, romance, mythology and many other subjects are common but movies dedicated to comedy are very few.
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Tu hi bataa de mujhko ae dil
Posted on: June 25, 2010
Kasturi (1954) is a forgotten movie by now. This movie had actors like Sajjan, Nimmi, Bipin Gupta and even Helen.
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I have listened to the well known songs of “Nastik”(1954) like everyone else, but I have not listened to the other songs of this movie.
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I have posted two memorable songs from “Shart” (1954) in the past namely Na ye chaand hogaa na taare rahenge (Shart) and Dekho wo chaand chhupke kartaa hai kyaa ishaare (Shart) . This movie had another nice song in it which is not known to many people (including me) because that song is not available in the movie’s VCD. I became aware of this song only because of farmaish for this song by one of the visitors of this blog, viz. anverali valli.
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Dam bhar ka thaa daur khushi kaa
Posted on: May 22, 2010
“Maan” (1954) is one of those obscure movies that have been forgotten by all. Very little detail is available about this movie. This movie had Ajit, Jagirdaar,Achla Sachdev,Durga Khote, Yashodhara Katju etc in it.
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It is my belief that Roshan should be called the king of filmi qawwalis the way Madan Mohan is described as the king of Ghazals. Many of the qawwaalis that Roshan has created in movies have gone on to become immortal.
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In 1950s, Bollywood movies discovered the songs of the genre that I call “party song” or “club” song, where a dancer (female mostly) sings and dances while people (good people as well as villains) are hanging out.
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Dil ki shikaayat nazar ke shikwe
Posted on: May 10, 2010
I am fond of saying that Bollywood movies have one great “Chitthi” (letter) song every decade, beginning from 1960s. Thus we had Likhe jo khat tujhe(Kanyadaan)(1968) in 1960s, Daakiya daak laaya(Palkon ki chhaon mein)(1977) (Palkon Ki Chhaaon Mein” in 1970s, “Chitthi aayi hai aayi hai” (Naam) in 1980s and Sandese aate hain(Border)(1997) (Border) in 1990s. All these songs are already posted in this blog.
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Naa maaro nazariyaa ke baan
Posted on: April 24, 2010
“Pehli Jhalak” (1954) was a remake of a South Indian language movie. Kishore Kumar and Vyjyanti Mala were the lead actors in this Hindi version remake of this movie.
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I was not aware of this song from “Kavi” (1954) till today. It is only when a regular reader of this blog (Dr. Rashmikant Vyas) informed me about this song that I have listened to this song for the first time just now. What a lovely song !
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