Archive for the ‘Songs of 1957’ Category
“Champakali” (1957) is a Filmistan Production. It was directed by Nadlal Jaswantlal. The starcast included names like Bharat Bhushan, Suchitra Sen,Pran, Mubarak, Shobha Khote, S. L. Puri, Mumtaz Begum, Ram Avtaar etc.
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“Pyaasa” (1957) is a movie which touched the heart strings of the movie goers. It is the story of an artist who does not get his due in his life time but rich tributes are paid to him when he is presumed dead. But when he re appears again among his admirers, people who benefitted from his “death” are discomfited.
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Like most music lovers, I too mostly know only about the better known songs of movies and I am blissfully unaware of the lesser known songs from these movies.
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Kitna haseen hai jahaan
Posted on: January 12, 2012
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
When the words “Kitna Haseen Hai Jahaan” cross the eyes, the mind may bring in the memories of an OP Nayyar melody sung by Asha ji from the 1968 film Humsaayaa. (That song is actually titled ‘Kitna Haseen Hai Ye Jahaan’). But there is another, very beautiful and enchanting melody from eleven years before, wherein once again, Asha ji has sung a similar titled song, and music this time around is by N Dutta. I am now writing about this song from the 1957 film ‘Mr. X’. A film that is more famous for probably the raciest song that Rafi Saab has rendered in Hindi films, “Laal Laal Gaal Jaan Pe Hain Laagoo”. Here is another delightful melody from this film, that must hold out to be one of the most endearing song by Asha ji, describing the setting of the sun and the oncoming nightfall, and the emotions it brings to a heart in love. The words are lovely, the composition is soft and melodious, all the right ingredients for an evening song for lovers.
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“Sheroo” (1957) is an S P Productions movie. It was directed by Shakti Samanta. The movie had Ashok Kumar, Nalini Jaiwant, Anoop Kumar, Rashid Khan etc in it.
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See le zubaan
Posted on: December 28, 2011
“Nau Do Gyaarah” (1957) was a Navketan production movie. It was directed by Vijay Anand. The star cast had names like Dev Anand, Kalpana Kartik, Lalita Pawar, Rashid Khan, Jeevan, Shashikala, Madan Puri, M. A. Latif, Helen, Krishan Dhawan, Jagdish Raaj, Nazir Kashmiri, Bhagan Sinha, Tuntun, Prem Prakash etc.
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“Changez Khan” (1957) is mainly remembered today for the iconic song from this movie viz. Muhabbat Zinda rahti hai(Changez Khan). But we in this blog explore the lesser known songs of a movie as well. So far we have discussed three songs from this movie.
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Today (24th december) is Rafi’s birthday so today we are discussing songs sung by Rafi in this blog.
Here is a song from “Mirza Saahibaan”(1957). I notice that I have discussed as many as six songs from a movie of the same name that was released in 1947 and which starred Trilok Kapoor and Noorjahaan, but only one song from “Mirza Saahibaan” (1957) which starred Trilok Kapoor’s nephew, someone known as Shammi Kapoor 🙂 and Shyama.
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Haay tu hi gaya mohe bhool re
Posted on: December 22, 2011
“Kathputli” (1957) is a movie produced by Sreerangam Production.Amiya Chakravarty and Nitin Bose were the directors of this movie. The movie had Balraj Sahni, VYjyantimala, Kamla Laxman, Jawahar Kaul, Agha, Sheela Kashmiri, Poonam etc in this movie.
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Husn jawaan ishq jawaan
Posted on: December 20, 2011
In case of most movies, only a few songs become popular and other songs become forgotten with time. I have found that several of these forgotten songs are superb songs to listen to, and with some luck, they should have become popular songs, instead of ending up into the dustbin of obscurity.
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