Archive for the ‘Songs of 1959’ Category
Muskuraao ke jee nahin lagtaa
Posted on: October 9, 2010
Nirupa Roy is known among movie watchers as the actress playing long suffering mother of Amitabh Bachchan in several movies of 1970s. But that is not how she began her career. She was a lead actress in hindi movies for much of 1950s and 1960s, before age caught up with her and she began playing those Maa roles.
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“Sujata” (1959) had some very nice songs in it that covered various stages of lives, different kinds of feelings etc.
For instance, this movie has one of most well known luallabies of all time, viz. Nanhi kali sone chali hawa dheere aana. Picturisation of this lullaby shows Sulochana singing this lullaby to babies who grow up to become Shashikala and Nutan respectively.
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I had never heard of this movie called “Chaalis din” but for a farmaish of a song from this movie. This movie was released in 1959 and it had Premnath and Shakeela in lead roles.
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Nazren uthaa ke zaraa dekh le
Posted on: September 8, 2010
With time, most movie personalities become typecast in our minds, and we expect their performances to conform to our preconceived notions.
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If one makes a list of actors for whom Rafi has sung, the list of names will run into hundreds of names. In addition to singing for well known legendary actors, Rafi has sung for lesser actors too.
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The songs that I post in this blog can be roughly divided into two categories. One category is those songs that were popular in their days and are often well known among the fans of Hindi movie music.
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Dil se dil takraaye
Posted on: August 27, 2010
When you are young, you only like to listen to “modern” songs and hate listening to old songs calling them boring. Here is a song that was old even by my standards of 1970s when I was growing up. But show me a song that could be more modern than this by now 51 year old song.
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Laagi chhoote naa ab to sanam
Posted on: August 26, 2010
I have mentioned it that this blog has songs from nearly 1000 Hindi movies as of now. The list of moviewise songs that I have provided gives us a good idea of the songs that have been posted. With time, I have posted all the songs from some movies- viz “Barsaat”(1949), “Dholak”(1950), “Madhumati” (1958) etc. In case of other movies, I am gradually building up the list song by song.
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Today (24th August,2010) is the Indian festival of rakshabandhan, or Raakhi in brief. This is a festival when sisters tie Raakhi on the wrists of their brothers and the brother then vows to protect his sister.
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Dil ham to haare tum kaho pyaare
Posted on: August 16, 2010
While looking for songs, recently I stumbled upon this song from “Ardhaangini” (1959). And as often happens with me, I sat up and took notice. How come this song is not better known. This is a gem of a song really.
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