Archive for the ‘Songs of 1955’ Category
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Today, January 5, 2025, is the 44th Remembrance Day of Ramchandra Narhar Chitalkar, popularly known as C Ramchandra as a music director and Chitalkar as a playback singer. He regaled the connoisseurs of Hindi film music with his melodious musical compositions in the 1950s and 1960s. He was the pioneer of introducing popular foot-tapping songs with western musical influence and western musical instruments like saxophone and guitar in his compositions as early as in the 1940s. At the same time, he was composing classical raag-based as well as folk-based songs. He was trained in Hindustani classical music for six years first under Vinayakbua Patwardhan and later Shankarrao Sapre.
Despite producing many melodious songs especially in the 1950s, it is unfortunate that C Ramchandra did not get any award – whether National Film Award or Filmfare Award as a music director. The first Filmfare Awards were announced in April 1954 for films released in 1953. But his film, ‘Anarkali (1953) was not in the reckoning for the best music director’s award. His film, ‘Aazaad’ (1955) and ‘Paighaam’ (1959) were nominated for the Filmfare Award in best music director category but did not win. But the fact remains that many of his melodious and rhythmic songs of 1950s are still popular among the current generation which itself is a great award to a creative genius.
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6370 | Post No. : | 19755 |
Today’s song is from a ‘Kalpanik’ (Imaginary) film – Alladin ka Beta – 1955.
The film was directed by Rafiq Rizvi and the music was by S.Mohinder. This C grade film had a star cast from an usual stock of such films as Mahipal, Chitra (real name Afsar unnisa begum), Tiwari, Yashodhara Katju, Naaz, Kammo, Maruti, Shaikh and others.
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Rasiya re Rasiya batiyaan suno
Posted on: December 25, 2025
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6369 | Post No. : | 19751 |
Today’s song is from the Mythological film Jai Mahadev-1955.
The film produced by Ratlal Vohra, was directed by Ramchandra Thakur. The Music Director was Manna Dey. The cast of the film had as usual, a long list of actors. Some main actors were Nalini Jaywant, Trilok Kapoor, S.N.Tripathi, Dar Kashmiri, Shyam Sunder, Jeevan, Rewa Shankar, Heera Sawant etc etc. There were 4 Guest Artists, which included Umakant Desai (who had done the role of Lakshman in 7 films on Ramayana Stories).
It is very sad that because of intentional wrong education for the last 200 years, we were made to forget all the details of our cultural lifestyles. Thankfully, nowadays some awakening is observed. Hopefully, we should be once again getting all the lost benefits once again.
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6326 | Post No. : | 19590 |
#the Decade of Fifties – 1951 – 1960 #
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“Raaj Kanyaa” or ‘Raj Kanya-1955’ a costume drama film was directed by Vinod Desai for Vinod Films, Bombay. Chandrakant Desai was the producer of this movie. The cast of this movie had Nalini Jaywant, Manhar Desai, Bipin Gupta, Sunder, Sapru, B.M. Vyas, Chand Barq, Ramesh Tiwari, Kumkum, Smriti Biswas, Roop Basant, R.S. Pandey, Raj Shrivastava, Nirmal Kumar, Munni Bai, Leela Bai, Chand, Motiram, Natu, C.S. Dubey, Mahmooda, Jaina, Haroon and others. This movie was passed by Censor Board on 17.01.1955 which means the movie is around seventy years old now.
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6321 | Post No. : | 19575 |
The year 2025 is ending soon, and a quarter of the 21st century is over. This year has gone by very fast for me, with so much travel. Too much travel in fact that I have lost count. 6 weddings in close family and only one of them in greater Mumbai, which is a record.Mullah ki daud masjid tak, so we travel to Belgaum every time. Add to that visit to UK, plus a visit to Nanded. Another visit to Nanded is due before the end of the year. A 2 day trip to the good old Bangalore. See I forgot the Pune visit for yet another wedding in this melee. Throw in a combining of holiday/relaxation stops to Lonavla and Mahabaleshwar, here you have a full calender.
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6320 | Post No. : | 19569 |
“Maano Na Maano”(1955) alternatively titled “Believe it or not” and “Andhkaar” was produced by Pranlal K Doshi and directed by B K Adarsh for Movie Entertainers, Bombay. HFGK, in its footnote describes this movoie as Indian’s first psychological drama. The movie failed at the box office so spectacularly that information about its star cast too is not known. The music director Hansraj Bahl provided HFGK the names of some actors as Satish, Chitra, Baldev Mehta and Naaz. That is all the information that is available about this movie.
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So bhee jaao mere armaanon
Posted on: September 21, 2025
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6274 | Post No. : | 19417 |
“Riyaasat”(1955) was directed by Jaswant Jhaweri for Roopkamal Chitra, Bombay. The movie had Mahipal, Mala Sinha, Sunder, Kamal, Hiralal, Prakash, Babu Raje etc in it.
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