Archive for the ‘Songs of 1960’ Category
Mera naam Raju gharaanaa anaam
Posted on: July 26, 2010
Here is a well known song from a well known movie. The song is “Mera Naam Raju gharaana anaam” and it is from “Jis Desh Mein Ganga Behti Hai” (1960).
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Ye bansi kyun gaaye
Posted on: July 25, 2010
“Parakh” (1960) was a delightfully different kind of a movie. This movie is no longer remembered much, but its songs are fabulous.
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Sakhi ri likh de piyaa kaa naam
Posted on: July 25, 2010
I have been posting songs from “Saarangaa” (1960) these days. All these songs are wonderful songs to listen to.
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Koyi ghar aayegaa pyaar jagaayegaa
Posted on: July 24, 2010
I was under the impression that that the title song (Saarangaa teri yaad mein(Saarangaa)(1960)) of “Saarangaa” (1960) was the only memorable song from this movie. But then I discovered and posted another awesome song (Haan deewaanaa hoon main (Saarangaa)) from this movie. And now I am discovering that other songs of this movie are also wonderful songs. In other words, this movie is a musical blockbuster !
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Haan deewaanaa hoon main
Posted on: July 23, 2010
I first became aware of the movie “Saarangaa” (1960) in 1970s when I heard the title song of this movie in the local station of Vividh Bharati in the evening. It was then that I first heard about music director Sardar Malik. For a considerable time after that, I associated the title song of “Saranga” with Sardar Malik. This song (Saarangaa teri yaad mein(Saarangaa)(1960) )is already posted in this blog.
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O sajnaa barkhaa bahaar aayi
Posted on: July 12, 2010
This is one song that I thought I had already posted but I was wrong, and this fact was pointed out to me by some readers too.
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“Love In Shimla” (1960) has a song that is basically a recitation of the Urdu alphabet that goes “Alif Zabar aa alif zer ae alif pesh o” which is sort of like ” A se anaar aa se aam” of Hindi or “A for apple B for Bat…” in English. For one who has studied Urdu, writing down the lyrics of this song would be a cakewalk. I am not familiar with the Urdu alphabet and as a result, the lyrics of this song is Greek (rather Urdu) to me. I had planned to post this song in the past, but I could not do so mostly because I was unable to follow the lyrics.
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The revised writeup of this song is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie songs and a regular contributor to this song.
As one looks back on the history of cinema, one finds that even the main line actors who are considered A grade, and the movies sell by their name, also end up acting in movies that are obscure and did not catch the attention at the box office. This movie, Ek Ka Baad Ek, from 1960, is one such movie of Dev Anand. By the time this movie was released, Dev Anand was an established and expensive star with a huge number of hits from the 1950s behind him. Then in 1960, he acted in this movie whose rest of the star cast included Sharda, Heeralal, Tarla, Prabhu Dayal, SK Prem, Radha Kishen, Madhu Apte, Ravi Kant etc. The actress Sharda mentioned here is the elder sister of actor Vinod Mehra, who made his mark on the screen about a decade and a half later. From the memoriam message displayed at the beginning of the movie, this is the last movie that the great actor Radhakishen appeared in. In fact this movie is produced by his son but unfortunately, Radhakishen himself could not live long enough to see its release.
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When I looked at the list of the old farmaishes for songs, I found that this song from “Mughal e Azam” (1960) was not yet posted. all these days, I was under the impression that I had already posted this song.
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Mere man ke diye
Posted on: June 11, 2010
In the past, I have posted two superb songs from “Parakh” (1960), namely Kya hawa chali baba rut badli and Mila hai kisi ka jhumka
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