Archive for the ‘Songs of 1957’ Category
“Gateway of India” (1957) was a movie starring Johny Walker, Madhubala, Bhagwan etc. This suspense movie had eight songs in it. As many as five songs from this movie have been discussed in the past.
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Ek aaye ek jaaye musaafir
Posted on: May 31, 2013
This article is written by Arunkumar Deshmukh, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
This is a song from MUSAFIR-57, a film in the 50s, which became famous for its different presentation style. It was,in fact, not one continuous story, but a collection of 3 stories, taking place in one house. This was a new approach in Hindi cinema and there was a mixed reaction to this film from the audience and the critics.
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Hai bahut dinon ki baat
Posted on: May 26, 2013
This article is written by Arunkumar Deshmukh, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
This is the last song from film Bhabhi-57. The film had 10 songs which included a 3 part song-Chal ud ja re Panchhi….
It has already been posted and with this song all songs of Bhabhi-57 will be complete.
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Ae jaan e jahaan jaate ho kahaan
Posted on: May 7, 2013
“Paataal Pari” (1957) was a Sardar Pictures Production. It was directed by S P Bakshi. The movie had Shakila, Jairaj, Kumkum, Sheikh, Yashodhara Katju, Habib, Tiwari etc in it.
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Peepal taley ghar mera
Posted on: May 3, 2013
“Jeewan Saathi” (1957) was a D S Films Production. It was directed by R S Tara. The movie had Ashok Kumar,Usha Kiran, Anoop Kumar, Pratima Devi, Daisy Irani, Shammi, Murad, Jabeen Jalil, Amarnath etc in it.
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Na maangoon main tera jahaan
Posted on: April 28, 2013
“Raja Vikram” (1957) was a Sharad Productions movie. It was directed by Dhirubhai Desai. The movie had Bhagwan, Usha Kiran, Nigar Sultana, Suryakant, Shahu Modak etc in it.
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“Paataal Pari” (1957) was a Sardar Pictures Production. It was directed by S P Bakshi. The movie had Jairaj, Shakila, Kumkum, Sheikh, Yashodhara Katju, Habib, Tiwari etc in it.
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“Jalti Nishaani” (1957) was a Emsheth production movie. It was directed by Harish. The movie had Kamal Kapoor, Geeta Bali, Kuldeep Kaur, Sundar, Ulhaas, Chaman Puri etc in it.
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Naach re mayuraa
Posted on: April 1, 2013
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
During my younger days, Radio Ceylon (later Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation) and Vividh Bharati service of all India Radio (Aakashvani) were the two sources on which I used to listen to Hindi film songs’ programmes. I got to know only sometime in late 60s that Aakashvani stations were not broadcasting Hindi film songs prior to the setting of Vividh Bharati in 1957. Later I came to know that this policy decision was taken by the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting in 1952 when Dr B V Keskar, the then Information and Broadcasting Minister felt that Hindi film songs had become vulgar and westernised. It was decided that some songs having literary value such as those written by poets like Bhagwati Charan Verma and Pandit Narendra Sharma should be turned into songs and played on Aakashvani in place of Hindi film songs. It is said that some of such songs were composed by Anil Biswas. It was during this time that Lata Mangeshkar sang her first non-filmy song ‘yug ki sandhya krishak vadhu si’ written by Pandit Narendra Sharma and composed by Anil Biswas during. Unfortunately, this song’s disc was damaged during its first play on the radio and was thus lost forever.
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