Archive for the ‘Songs of 1958’ Category
O zaraa ruk jaa
Posted on: May 8, 2010
In Bollywood movies, singing is mostly the preserve of lead actors (Hero/ Heroine). Others are required to serve as fillers.
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Here is a song from a forgotten movie called “Ghar Sansaar” (1958). This movie had Balraj Sahni and Nargis in lead roles.
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Tora manwaa kyun ghabraaye re
Posted on: April 15, 2010
Geeta Dutt had originally sung this bhajan (“Rakh na ramakda”) in Gujrati movie “Mangal Phera” (1949) for music director Avinash Vyas and that has gone on to become an evergreen bhajan in Gujarati. The same Bhajan was used in “Saadhana” (1958). This time, N Datta was the music director and Sahir Ludhianvi wrote the bhajan in Hindi. Geeta Dutt, who sang it originally in Gujarati, sang it it in the Hindi version too.
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Zulf ke phande phans gayi jaan
Posted on: April 1, 2010
It may sound strange but it is true. Some of the finest music of O P Nayyar has been composed for movies where Johny Walker was the hero. I have posted a few such songs already and I keep stumbling upon more such songs regularly.
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Chanda mama mere dwaar aanaa
Posted on: March 31, 2010
It was one year ago that I had discovered “Lajwanti” (1958) and I discussed most songs of this movie in this blog. But there is one song that remained unposted because I could not find a video link of that song at that time.
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“Mr Qartoon MA” (1958) is a movie which has been forgotten with time. Here is a song from this movie.
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Hamsafar saath apna chhod chale
Posted on: March 29, 2010
I have posted a few songs from “Aakhri Daao” (1958) but this was one song that was not there. So here is this song.
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I have posted as many as six songs from “Haqeeqat” (1964) and I thought that I had covered all the songs. But it turns out that I had missed out on posting another very fine song from this movie.
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Tang aa chuke hain
Posted on: March 8, 2010
“Light House” (1958) was a movie featuring Ashok Kumar and Nutan. This movie is not remembere much today.Its music too is not very well known now a days. But this movie had a few nice songs in it.
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Hamen haale dil tumse kahna hai
Posted on: February 26, 2010
“Chaubees Ghante” (1958) is a very old movie. This is a movie of that era when villains like Premnath, Ajit etc used to be heroes. Premnath in fact is the hero of this movie.
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