Archive for the ‘Songs of 1958’ Category
Chhedo dhun matwaalon ki
Posted on: February 16, 2011
This post is written by Raja, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie songs and a regular contributor of writeups to this blog
I have talked before about the thrill of locating some of the less-known songs of your childhood days on the internet. You probably know just the first couple of lines, you may not even know any details more than this but you last heard the song in your childhood.
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Baahon ko zaraa lehraa de
Posted on: February 3, 2011
Here is a lesser known song from a lesser known movie. At least this movie and this song is lesser known to me, and that is the reason why no songs from this movie were posted in this blog till now.
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Ye hawaa ye nadi ka kinaaraa
Posted on: February 3, 2011
The lyrics of this song is provided by Atif M, a new visitor of this blog and a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie songs
Prima facie, this duet song has similar initial words as the “Dilli Ka Thug” (1958) song (ye raaten ye mausam nadi ka kinaara ), but the two songs are entirely different songs even though they share the same lyricist, music director and the female singer.
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O o o o baby
Posted on: January 24, 2011
One normally associates Hemant Kumar’s voice and music with soft romantic/sentimental songs. But that does not mean that he could not sing /compose other kind of songs.
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I have discussed a railgaadi (Train) song where hero and heroine are seated on a haystack kept on a freight train. The train is in motion and the duo are singing a song accompanied by the rhythmic beat generated by the train.
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“Samrat Chandragupta” (1958) was one of those B grade movies that made it big mainly because of its music. Almost all its songs went on to become very popular and some of the songs are remembered to this day. I have discussed as many as four songs from this movie and it includes the evergreen song Chaahe paas ho chaahe door ho .
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Jhuk gayi dekho gardan unki
Posted on: January 6, 2011
“Talaaq” (1958) is a lesser known movie which had Rajendra Kumar and Kamini Kadam in lead roles. Like the movie, even its songs are less known.
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“12 O’clock” (1958) is a murder mystery movie. It stars Guru Dutt, Waheeda Rehman,Rehman, Shashikala,Johny Walker etc.
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Andhhon se dayaa karnaa daataa
Posted on: December 12, 2010
These are the days of being political correct. Instead of calling a spade a spade, these days we use euphemisms instead. Thus, what was called an imbecile in the past is now called “differently enabled” and what was once called blind is now called “visually impaired”. Those were the days when cutting trees and hunting tigers was considered the in thing. Now these activities are banned.
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I was aware of a movie called “Do Phool” (1973) but it now I have come to know that there was another movie of this name in 1958. This movie “Do Phool”(1958) is far more obscure that its 1973 namesake. This movie was obviously a B grade movie with no saleable stars in it.
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