Archive for the ‘Songs of 1960’ Category
Here is a song from a movie called “Basant” (1960). It is a typical O P Nayyar song with his characteristic music. Asha Bhonsle sings this song. It is picturised on Nutan and another lady whom I am unable to identify. Both of course share the voice of Asha Bhonsle, when it comes to lip syncing this song.
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Salim and Anarkali have been a favourite topic of Bollywood movies in 1950s and 1960s. In 1950s, there was in fact a movie called “Anarkali” (1953) which was a musical blockbuster. It had Pradeep Kumar and Bina Rai in the roles of Salim and Anarkali respectively. In 1960, “Mughal e Azam” was produced, where Dilip Kumar and Madhubala played these roles. This movie was just as big a musical blockbuster as “Anarkali” (1953).
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Arre haan dildaar
Posted on: August 26, 2009
“Bewaqoof” (1960), as the name suggests, was a comedy movie which unfortunately has been forgotten with time. This movie had Kishore Kumar and I S Johar as lead actors cum comedians. Mala Sinha was also there in this movie.
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“Aanchal” (1960) was a movie full of some wonderful songs.
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Bollywood romantic songs are reputed to be sung while running around trees. But how do the hero and heroine reach there in the first place ? In case they are rich, they have a car to reach there, but there is nothing romantic in that. It is far more romantic when the hero is driving a motor bike and the lady seated behind is clinging on to him with her arms strategically placed on hero’s body.
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This song is from an obscure movie called “Apna Ghar” (1960). And the combination of people behind this song is a rare combination.
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There are cases in which a few filmy bhajans/ prayers become so popular that they become regular bhajans with many people. There have been a few such songs like this from movies like “Guddi”, “Sant Gyaneshwar” etc. Here is one such popular song from a forgotten movie called “Ek Phool Chaar Kaante”.
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Aa ab laut chalen
Posted on: July 18, 2009
I have seen the movie “Jis Desh me Ganga bahti hai”(1960) but I was not paying attention and as such I do not remember much about this movie. So I had no information about the background of this song from this movie. Now I am told that this movie was about the dacoits of Chambal valley laying their arms and joining the mainstream of society. This song in fact exhorts them to come back to the society.
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