Archive for the ‘Songs of 1960’ Category
Neeli saadi sunahra jumper
Posted on: February 14, 2012
Today (14th february), otherwise known as Valentine’s day, is also the birthday of Jaan Nisaar Akhtar. Jaan Nisaar Akhtar’s name suggests that he may be a shayar who mostly wrote songs on the themes of husn o ishq.
Jaan Nisaar Akhtar could in fact write light hearted songs as well. Here is a fun timepass song from “Rickshawaala” (1960). This song is sung by Asha Bhonsle and Geeta Dutt. N Datta is the music director.
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Itna na sata ke koi jaane
Posted on: February 6, 2012
“Bindiya” (1960) was an AVM Productions movie. It was directed by Krishnan Panju. THe starcast included names like Padmini, Balraj Sahni, Jagdeep, Lalita Pawaar, David, Om Prakash, Rajendranath, Jayashree Gadhkar, Achala Sachdev, Minoo Mumtaaz, Neelam, Hanumanthachari, L.R.Mudaliaar, Siddhu etc.
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Beqasi hadd se jab guzar jaaye
Posted on: January 16, 2012
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
January 16th is the birth anniversary of Omkar Prasad Nayyar (O P Nayyar), one of the most prolific music director of Hindi film industry of the golden era of 50s and 60s. Although O P Nayyar did not receive any formal training in classical music, his folk tune based compositions became a rage among all the sections of the public. That he was one of the top music directors of the golden era of 50s and 60s without Lata Mangeshkar singing a single song for him, speaks volumes about his talent and calibre as a music director. He won Filmfare award for the best music director for Naya Daur (1957).
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“Patang” (1960) is a movie which was produced by Asiatic Productions and directed by Hargobind Duggal and Suraj Prakash. The movie had Rajendra Kumar, Om Prakash, Achala Sachdev, Ulhaas, Manorama, Raj Mehra, Keshav Rana, Randhir, Leela Mishra, Chaman puri, Mohan Choti, Baby Farida etc in it.
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A man who is fully drunk and is going home at night singing a song justifying his state of intoxication is a scene that has been immortalised in Hindi movies by the song Zindagi khwaab hai (Jaagte Raho) . This song was sung by Mukesh and it was picturised on Motilal.
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Most Hindi movie songs that we get to listen to are from movies that are released for public view and these songs figure in these movies.
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This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Mehlon Ke Khwaab (1960) is a romantic comedy cum chor-police story produced by Madhubala herself. The film is directed by Haider and the star cast is notable and includes Pradeep Kumar, Madhubala, Kishore Kumar, Chanchal, Pran, KN Singh, Cuckoo, Om Prakash, Sulochana Chatterjee, Leela Chitnis, Ram Avtaar, Anoop Sharma, Khataanaa, Balam, Rashid Khan, Parvin Paul, Haroon, Daraaz, Ravi Kant, Uma Dutt, Satish Batra, Ram Lal, Sham Lal etc. Just to add a bit of trivia for those who may not know, Chanchal is the real life sister of Madhubala. The music composition is by S Mohinder. The film boasts of seven very melodious tunes, with lyrics penned by three poets viz., Raja Mehndi Ali Khan, Raahil Gorakhpuri and Anand Bakshi.
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During the period from 1940s to 1960s, we often had titles of Hindi movies based on Railways. Thus we had movies titled “Station Master” (1942), ” Rail Ka Dibba” (1953), “Railway Platform” (1955) , “The Train” (1970) etc. Much later in 1980s, we had a few more Railway based titles, viz “The Burning Train” (1980) and “Coolie” (1983).
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Jaane kahaan gayee
Posted on: December 7, 2011
From the title of the movie, this movie “Dil Apna Aur Preet Paraayi” (1960) appears a melancholic movie. But from the songs of this movie, this to be appears a fantastic movie.
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