Archive for the ‘Songs of 1958’ Category
Tum saamne aakar jis dam
Posted on: February 29, 2012
“Khazaanchi” (1958) is a movie which was produced and directed by P N Arora. Starcast of the movie had names like Rajendra Kumar, Shyama, Chitra, Manorama, Helen, Rajan Haksar etc in it.
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This article is written by Raja, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Tolstoy is reported to have said “Music is the shorthand of emotion”. Nietzche is supposed to have said “Without music, life would be a mistake”. A quote attributed to Aldous Huxley goes “After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible, it is music”.
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Mera bichhdaa yaar milaa de
Posted on: February 18, 2012
“Sohni Mahiwal” (1958) was a Chaudhary Arts Production movie and it was directed by Raja Nawathe. Starcast of the movie included names like Bharat Bhushan, Nimmi, Kumar, Achla Sachdev, Mukri, Lotan, Chand Burque, Om Prakash etc.
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Man mora baawra
Posted on: February 12, 2012
“Raagini” (1958) was an Ashok Pictures production. It was directed by Rakhan and the starcast had names like Ashok Kumar, Kishore Kumar, Jabeen Jalil, Padmini, Nazir Hussain, Achla Sachdev,etc.
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This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
I had taken it for granted that the song ‘zindagi ki kasam ho chuke unke ham’ from film MAALIK (1958) has already been discussed in this blog. When I saw the movie-wise list of songs just to know in which year this film was released, I found that two songs from this film have been discussed and this song was not one of them.
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Sambhal ae dil
Posted on: February 6, 2012
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusist of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
As a music director, N Dutta worked for films that are a mix of A grade and B/C grade films. He did have some films associated with big name banners. Especially, he worked for BR Films for the movies Saadhna (1958), Dhool Ka Phool (1959) and Dharamputra (1961). Each of these films is a musical bonanza and boasts of a string of wonderful hits. Four songs of the 1958 film ‘Saadhna’ are already posted on this blog. This is the 5th gem from this film.
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In Hindi movies, we have songs for all occasions that touch the lives of Indians. Thus we have songs for various human feelings like joys, sorrows, love, hate etc. Then there are songs for various Indian festivals. We also have songs for special occasions like birthdays, weddings etc.
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“Mujrim” (1958) was an Eagle Films production. It was directed by O P Ralhan and the starcast included names like Shammi Kapoor, Raagini, Amrit Rana, Johnny Walker, Shobha Khote, Kamal Kapoor, S. Banerjee, Tuntun etc.
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I have discussed songs from “Taqdeer” (1943) as well as “Taqdeer” (1967) in this blog. It turns out that there was a movie with this title in 1950s too.
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Ye samaa hai mera dil jawaan
Posted on: January 29, 2012
“Samrat Chandragupta”(1958) was a Mukti Films preduction. It was directed by Babubhai Mistry and the star cast included names like Bharat Bhushan, Nirupa Roy, Lalita Pawar, B. M. Vyas, Ullhas, Anwar Hussein, Krishna Kumari, Samra Roy, Dalpat etc.
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