Archive for the ‘Songs of 1958’ Category
Mujhe dekh chaand sharmaaye
Posted on: August 22, 2010
In ancient days, leading a spartan life was considered desirable and virtuous and seeking a life of pleasures and luxury was considered improper and a sign of decadence. In Indian history, kings who indulged themselves in such activities were looked down upon. The word used for such undesirable activities was “Bhog-Vilaas” ( comfort and pleasure seeking). Yes, seeking a life of comfort was severely disapproved by the visionaries among ancients.
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“Ek Sholaa”(1958) is a forgotten movie by now. It had Pradeep Kumar and Mala Sinha in lead roles.
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I have posted all but one song from “Madhumati” (1958) so far. This movie is arguably one of the biggest musical blockbuster movies of all time in Hindi movie history. Here is the last song from this movie that was yet to be posted.
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Chhotaa saa baalmaa
Posted on: August 17, 2010
The name of O P Nayyar is normally associated with racy songs. He was not a classical music trained music director, unlike many of his peers. But even then, O P Nayyar could still come up with lovely semi classical songs if the situation so demanded.
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Zulmi sang aankh ladi
Posted on: August 14, 2010
On popular demand from several of my readers, I am posting the remaing songs of “Madumati” (1958) these days. I have so far already posted six songs from this movie. Six timeless songs should be more than enough for one movie, but there are more such songs in this movie !
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Kaisaa jaadoo balam toone daaraa
Posted on: August 14, 2010
If one just goes through the lyrics of the song, this song may not appear to be much of a song. But just listen to this song. This song is sung so nicely that the song grows up on the listener and remains with him /her for several hours. That is what Lalitha felt about this song and mentioned while giving farmaish for this song. And when I listened to this song, I realised this fact myself.
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Though I have posted as many as six songs from “Madhumati” already, I need to post other songs from this movie as well, seeing that this movie has so many wonderful songs in it.
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I had posted as many as four songs from “Madhumati” (1958) in the past, but I was repeatedly being reminded by a few regulars of this blog that several songs of “Madhumati” were yet to be posted. And they were right of course.
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I never tire of saying that irrespective of the grading of the movie (A, B, C etc grade), the music of all these movies was always A grade.
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