Archive for the ‘Songs of 1957’ Category
Shammi Kapoor made his debut in early 1950s and for the first few years of his career he was largely a nobody. In his movies, he would try to ape the mannerisms of his elder brother Raj Kapoor.
It was with “Tumsa Nahin Dekha” (1957) that Shammi Kapoor discovered his true self. It was in this movie that we first saw Shammi Kapoor look and act like the Shammi Kapoor that we so love and adore to this day.
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Meri veena tum bin roye
Posted on: September 7, 2010
“Dekh Kabira Roya” (1957) was a movie made with lesser actors, and I have no idea how the movie fared at the box office, but today this movie is regarded as a musical blockbuster.
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I was not aware that Raj Kapoor and Meena Kumari worked together and that too at a time when he was known to act mostly opposite Nargis.
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Koi laakh kare chaturaayi
Posted on: August 18, 2010
If you want to calm your nerves by listening to music then it is often a good idea to listen to a song sung by Kavi Pradeep. He was mainly a poet, but he also sang a few songs and most of these songs went on to become immortal songs.
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Jahaan jahaan khayaal jaataa hai
Posted on: August 16, 2010
Here is a party song from a movie called “Bade Sarkaar” (1957). This movie, from its cast does not appear an A grade movie, seeing that Agha and Sajjan are the lead actors in this movie.
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I was under the impression that I had already posted this song from “Dekh Kabeera Royaa” (1957). So I was suprised to know (thanks to Lalitha’s farmaish for this song) that this song was not yet posted.
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I have heard this song many a times, but I was not aware which movie this song is from. But then one can enjoy songs even without knowing their details. But it always helps if we know the details, because then we can appreciate the msong even more.
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Chal mere dil ke udan khatole
Posted on: July 27, 2010
In Hindi movies, we have music inspired from various sources- viz Indian classical music, folk music, western classical music, western rock and roll, etc.
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Jaise ko taisaa nahle pe dahlaa
Posted on: July 2, 2010
If Nargis was “Mother India”, then who was “Miss India” ? This is my favourite quiz to movie lovers. And incidentally both these movies were released in the same year viz 1957.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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