Archive for the ‘Songs of 1956’ Category
Mera naam Abdul Rehman
Posted on: May 3, 2009
Parents teach their small kids to introduce themselves before strangers and the kids, often feeling shy, hesitantly give their names, name of their schools, names of their parents etc.
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Ye nayi nayi preet hai
Posted on: April 28, 2009
“Pocket Maar” (1956) was a movie starring Dev Anand and Geeta Bali. This movie had music by Madan Mohan. And that means one can expect some fine songs in this movie. And that is exactly what turns out to be the case.
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Saanwle salone aaye din bahaar ke
Posted on: April 21, 2009
“Ek Hi Raasta” (1956) was a heart warming movie, going by the songs of this movie. Meena Kumari, who later became known for playing tragedy roles, played a happy character in this movie. Sunil Dutt played her husband and Daisy Irani played their kid. I had earlier posted a nice song from this movie viz “chali gori pi ke milan ko chali”.
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The Bollywood movie “It happened one night” was quite an “inspiring” movie. It inspired many Bollywood movies. One such movie was “Chori Chori”.
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Jab baadal lahraaya
Posted on: April 4, 2009
I had just mentioned while posting one such song that there were very few “baadal” songs in Bollywood movies.
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Antam fantam chhod de babu
Posted on: March 27, 2009
It is a light hearted song from a movie called “Ham sab Chor Hain” (1956). This movie had music by O P Nayyar and lyrics were written by Majrooh Sultanpuri.
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Boojh mera kyaa naam re
Posted on: March 26, 2009
Here is a cute song from “CID” (1956). This movie had extremely popular songs composed by O P Nayyar.
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“Nai Dilli” (1956) was a movie starring Kishore Kumar and Vyjyanti Mala. This movie to my mind was a landmark movie in my mind because one could see the New Delhi of that time and amuse oneself by comparing that with the present day New Delhi. Many present day landmarks of New Delhi were non existent or looked very different those days.
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The golden era of Bollywood music saw great songs composed by big name music directors. In addition, some less known music directors also contributed their mite in making that era the golden era.
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Parwar digaare aalam
Posted on: March 3, 2009
This movie “Hatimtai” (1956) was a C grade movie, the kind of movie which is lucky to see the light of day, and which is destined to pass into oblivion soon thereafter.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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