Archive for the ‘Songs of 1956’ Category
“Anuraag” (1956) was a movie produced by Mukesh, who those days was toying with the idea of becoming an Actor-Singer and was producing movies as well.
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Baawli banaa ke chhodaa
Posted on: February 4, 2011
I have discussed three songs from “Parivaar” (1956) in the past, and these three songs were nice songs of different genre. Here is another song from this movie belonging to yet another genre/category.
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As music lovers, most of us only get to listen to well known songs. If one wants to listen to songs that were forgotten, one needs to dig deep and search for them. During this search, one often comes across some gems.
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Mythological/historical Lovers of the yore, viz Heer-Ranjha, Laila Majnu, Sohni Mahiwaal etc have inspired Hindi movie makers to make several movies on their stories.
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Jhoom jhoom kar chali akeli
Posted on: January 30, 2011
“Taj”(1956) had virtually the same team as “Naagin” (1954). The makers of “Taj” (1956) obviously hoped to replicate the commercial success of “Naagin” 91954) by doing that. I am not sure how much of a commercial success “Taj” (1956) was. It was certainly nowhere close to “Naagin” (1954), that is for sure.
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Dil hai ye tera dil tu liye jaa
Posted on: January 30, 2011
I keep stumbling against rare and unheard of musical gems almost on a regular basis, and here is the gem of the day.
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Lelo sone ka laddoo
Posted on: January 30, 2011
He is a song that I heard for the first time only recently. This song is from a movie called “Paisa Hi Paisa” (1956) and this movie too is unfamiliar to me.
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Thandi thandi saawan ki phuhaar
Posted on: January 29, 2011
When one mentions “Jaagte Raho”(1956) the one song that readily comes to mind is the song Zindagi khwaab hai. This movie had other nice songs in it too, such as the song Jaago Mohan pyaare jaago.
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From the song, it is often possible to guess the music director. But not always. there have been cases where a song, sounding like O P Nayyar’s song may turn out to be Madan Mohan’s.
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Kare na jo bandon se pyaar
Posted on: January 23, 2011
There have been several Hindi movies called “Bandhan”. The oldest such movie was “Bandhan” (1938) which had music by Saraswati Devi. Then there was a Rajesh Khanna starrer “Bandhan” (1969) that had music by Kalyanji Anandji.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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