Archive for the ‘Songs of 1956’ Category
“Sailaab” (1956) is an obscure movie and so is the case with its music.
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When I started this blog,remembering which songs I had posted and which were yet to be posted was easy in the beginning. One could remember it in one’s mind. But as the number of songs increased, I needed to keep track of them, because sometimes ( on two or three occasions) I repeated the same song. Thankfully some of my alert readers pointed this fact out to me, and I replaced the duplicated song with another song.
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Madhoshi mein angdaayi mein
Posted on: October 4, 2009
“Sheikh Chilli” (1956) was what was then regarded as a B grade movie. But the movie appears quite A grade in its overall quality. Mahipal and Shyama were the lead actors and I absolutely refuse to call Shyama a B grade actress. And Mahipal too has earned quite a repulation as a hero in these movies.
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Kahaan chhod ke chalaa hai tu
Posted on: September 26, 2009
“Anjaan” (1956) was a movie starring Pradeep Kumar and Vyjyanti Mala. As far as I am concerned, I was not aware of this movie till now, now was I aware of the songs of this movie.
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Zindagi khwaab hai
Posted on: September 17, 2009
I have posted some 30 songs in this blog that can be categorised as drunkard songs. But still there are many such drunkard songs that remain to be posted.
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“Inspector” (1956) is an obscure movie which few people know about. This movie had Ashok Kumar and Geeta Bali in lead roles.
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In Bollywood movies, music directors tended to create songs based on the range and singing ability of the singers. Singers with lesser range and lesser singing abilities got simpler songs to sing, whereas singers with greater skills were often asked to sing difficult songs.
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Hamaari gali aana
Posted on: September 11, 2009
“Mem Sahib”(1956) was a delightful movie that is guaranteed to warm the cockles of the listeners and watchers of this movie. This lovely movie had Kishore Kumar, Meena Kumari ( in a bubbly role), and Shammi Kapoor.
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O arabpati ki chhori
Posted on: September 9, 2009
This is a rare song, and a fabulous song. In fact, for long I was thinking of posting this song as one of my century scoring songs ( yes, I am approaching another century), but then I decided that there are far too many great songs lying there and if I keep them in abeyance waiting for them to be posted as century making songs then I may have to wait far too long.
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Though this song talks of “Chanda”, “raat” etc, which are found in “Chaayaageet” songs, this song from “Chhoo Mantar” sounds more like a dance song. After all, O P Nayyar is the music director of this song, and his music tended to be dance music. In “Chaayageet” songs, we do not expect the lovelorn protagonist to dance, he/ she is just expected to sing in a slow tempo. 😉
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