Archive for the ‘Songs of 1957’ Category
Ham aaj safar ko chaley
Posted on: April 1, 2013
“Raja Vikram” (1957) was a Sharad productions movie. It was directed by Dhirubhai Desai. The movie had Shahu Modak, Usha Kiran, Bhagwan, Nigar Sultana, Suryakant etc in it.
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When I had watched “Mother India” (1957) for the first time during late 1970s/ early 1980s, I did not realise that the movie had so many songs in it. I throught that the movie have about five or six songs in it. As it is, we have already discussed as many as ten songs from this movie in the blog and there are some more songs still left to be discussed.
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Aaja raat beeti jaaye
Posted on: March 17, 2013
“Begunaah” (1957) was a movie whose story was plagiarised from an American movie namely “Knock on Wood” (1954). Plagiarisation from foreign movies have been going on from olden days and filmakers indulge in it with impunity even today. It would seem that “Begunaah” (1957) was the only movie which has even been penalised for this act. When Paramount Pictures, the makers of “Knock on Wood” (1954) came to know about the fact that “Begunaah” (1957) was copied from their movie, they look legal action in a Bombay court. Much to the astonishment of Indian movie fraternity and legal circles, the Indian court ordered the destruction of all copies of “Begunaah” (1957). The movie, which was already released, had to be withdrawn from movie halls and the prints were destroyed. all this happened quite swiftly. The court gave its decision within six weeks of filint the case and the prints were destroyed in another three months time.
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Aaya hai zamaana aurat ka
Posted on: March 8, 2013
Today (8 march 2013) is the International women’s day. When I looked up, I find that this day is being celebrated as International women’s day since 1977 when the United Nations General Assembly invited member states to proclaim March 8 as the UN Day for women’s rights and world peace.
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Ae jee akdo na hamse piyaa
Posted on: March 8, 2013
This article is written by Peevesie’s mom, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Heard this song 3- 4 days back on TV Rajasthani!!!!! Would you believe it I have become addicted to this channel at the 8.30 -9.00 A.M. slot. The programme is perfect to go with breakfast. It is their Bhoole Bisre Geet programme. and they have been presenting only Anil Biswas songs from the look of the last two programmes that I saw.
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“Khuda Ka Banda” (1957) was a Chitra Bharati presentation. It was directed by Chaturbhuj Doshi. The movie had Chandrashekhar, Krishna Kumari, Tiwari, Krishna Kumari, Ratnamala, Iswarilal, Maruti, Roopmala, Moni Chatterji, Ram Singh, Kamal Kapoor, Gope, Kanhaiyalal, Amirbai Karnataki, Maya Das, Jagdish Kamal, Azim, Parshuram, Pandit Iqbal etc in it.
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“Khuda Ka Banda” (1957) was a Chitra Bharati presentation. It was directed by Chaturbhuj Doshi. The movie had Chandrashekhar, Krishna Kumari, Tiwari, Krishna Kumari, Ratnamala, Iswarilal, Maruti, Roopmala, Moni Chatterji, Ram Singh, Kamal Kapoor, Gope, Kanhaiyalal, Amirbai Karnataki, Maya Das, Jagdish Kamal, Azim, Parshuram, Pandit Iqbal etc in it.
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