Archive for the ‘Songs of 1960’ Category
Kyun udaa jaataa hai aanchal
Posted on: March 16, 2011
My regular readers may have noticed that I have been discussing quite a few Suman Kalyanpur songs these days. And indeed, I am doing this deliberately. She was nearing a milestone in this blog and I wanted her to reach there quickly.
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Ham bhi hain tum bhi ho
Posted on: March 9, 2011
Though I have heard this song from “Jis Desh Mein Ganga Behti Hai” (1960) several times, I never gave it any serious thought. But now, when I tried to find more details about the song, I found that this song has to be a very special song indeed.
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Haseenon ki sawaari hai
Posted on: March 5, 2011
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie songs and a regular contributor to this blog.
Atul ji has already posted two hand rickshaw songs, both of them performed by Mehmood. Here is a third song in this category, in which the rickshaw puller is Joy Mukherjee and the lady passenger is Sadhna. The movie is Love In Simla.
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Babu bol kaisaa rokaa
Posted on: February 18, 2011
“Pyaase Panchhi” (1960) is a rather B grade movie where Mehmood was the hero opposite Ameeta. Going by the fact that Mehmood subsequently made his mark not as a hero but as a comedian, it appears to me that this movie may not have done well at the box office.
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Teri shokh nazar ka ishaaraa
Posted on: February 17, 2011
Lyrics for this song are provided by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor of lyrics for this blog
By now, most music lovers who are a regular of this blog must have come to the same conclusion about Chitragupta as I have concluded- that he was a grossly underrated and underutilised music director. Most of his music was given in B movies which did not catch the attention of mainstream movie goers. But what music these movies had !
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O bal khaati sharmaati aajaa
Posted on: February 6, 2011
I have discussed as many as four songs from “Usne Kahaa Thha” (1960) but I was not aware of this song from the movie.
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Here is a forgotten gem from a forgotten B grade movie called “Police Detective” (1960). This movie had Sujit Kumar and Shyama in lead roles.
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Saanjh bhayi sun ri sakhi
Posted on: February 6, 2011
“Honeymoon” (1960) is a movie that had Manoj Kumar, Kuldeep Kaur, Saeeda Khan, Vijay Choudhary in it.
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