Archive for the ‘Songs of 1956’ Category
Abhi to saji hai muraadon ki duniyaa
Posted on: May 14, 2011
I have discussed songs from a movie called “Zindagi” (1964) in the past. It turns out that there is another movie of the same name that was released in 1956.
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Paise ka mantar paise ka jantar
Posted on: May 10, 2011
Regular visitors of this blog may have been noticing that I was discussing lots and lots of songs composed by Anil Biswas these days. And a few regulars may also be aware of the reason behind that. These days I am quite particular to see that major artists who have less than 100 of their songs in this blog reach their century of songs as quickly as I can help it.
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Chhedi maut ne shehnaayi
Posted on: May 6, 2011
“Heer” (1956) is a story based on the Punjabi Tragic love story of Heer Ranjha, which has been an important source of inspiration for several Hindi movies.
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Badaa mushqil hai daaman bachaanaa
Posted on: April 28, 2011
I have discussed songs that are stage songs as well as songs that are mujra songs. Here is an interesting song that combines the two. Yes, this song is a stage mujra song. In other words,this song is a stage song where a mujra is presented after the curtain opens.
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Tere jahaan se ham chale
Posted on: April 15, 2011
“Inquilaab” (1956) is a movie whose songs were discovered by me only recently. And what music this song had !
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The movie has been forgotten, and with it the songs of this movie too have passed into oblivion, but that is not how it should be. I find that this movie has some very hummable songs in it.
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Ae chaand kal jo aanaa
Posted on: April 14, 2011
“Devtaa” (1956) is a movie that was one of the earlier Hindi movies produced by a South Indian Production house. The lead actors of this movie were South Indians too. Gemini Ganeshan, Anjali Devi and Vyjyanti Mala had played the lead roles in this movie.
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O jee o hamen aaj koi na chhediyo
Posted on: March 5, 2011
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
With this post I am requesting Atul ji to add a new and peculiar category to this blog. This is a song sung on a ‘thhelaa’; and as far as I can recall, this is the only ‘thhelaa’ song in Hindi movies.
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Bhool jaa sapne suhaane bhool jaa
Posted on: March 4, 2011
I find that today I am discussing obscure songs from obscure movies that few people may be aware of. Here is another such song.
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Singer Mukesh, who had become a playback singer by early 1950s was trying to make it big as an actor-singer a la K L Saigal in 1950s. So much so that he began to produce his own movies in which he acted as hero and sang his own songs. But his ventures into movie making ended up in disaster as he not only lost money and ended up on the verge of bankruptcy, his career as a playback singer too almost came to an end because he stopped getting singing assignments from outside movies.
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