Archive for the ‘Songs of 1960s (1961 to 1970)’ Category
Chal chal re naujawaan
Posted on: March 2, 2012
When I saw the lyrics “chal chal re naujawaan” in a song from “Ek Phool Do Maali” (1969), I was surprised. People may wonder why I should be surprised if I had watched the movie. Indeed I had watched the movie, but my selective memory ensures that I only recall the details of movie watched in my younger days and details of movies that I watched much later are not retained in my memory (not enough space in the memory, perhaps 🙂 ).
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Bhare hain aankh mein aansoo
Posted on: February 29, 2012
“Saara Jahaan Hamaara”(1961) is an obscure B grade movie by now. This movie was produced by India Films corporation. Prakash Chhabra was the director and the starcast had Premnath, Shyama, Hiralal,Rajeshwari, Azraa, Ajay kumar, Jankidass, Manju etc in it.
The list of songs that belong to ” How come this song was not discussed earlier ! ” category is quite long. Here is another song of this category.
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This article is written by Ava Suri, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a new contributor to this blog.
Tere Ghar Ke Samne is one of the great movies offered up by Indian Cinema. It stars Dev Anand, Nutan, Om Prakash, Hrindranath Chattopadhyaya and Rajendranath. As was mandatory, this movie had some of the lovliest songs ever, thanks to lyrics by Hasrat Jaipuri, set to music by SD Burman, sung to perfection by Lata, Asha and Rafi.
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Tum nahin bhhoolti kahaan jaaun
Posted on: February 27, 2012
“Kanyaadaan” (1968) was a movie with great songs but not so great storyline. In other words, the movie did not deserve the song that it got. This is the view of Memsaab, who must be the most tolerant reviewer of Hindi movies that one can come across.
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In 1965, United Producers and Filmfare conducted an All India Talent Contest. Ten thousand people took part in this contest. The winner of this contest ,called “All India United Producers Talent contest” was to be made the hero of two Hindi movies.
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Sun le tu dil ki sadaa
Posted on: February 26, 2012
“Tere Ghar Ke Saamne” (1963) was a Navketan International presentation and it was directed by Vijay Anand. Starcast of the movie had Dev Anand, Nutan, Pratima Devi, Rashid Khan, Harin Chattopadhyaya, Om Prakash, Parveen Choudhary, Jankidas, Rajendranath etc in it.
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“Grihasthi” (1963) was a Gemini combines movie. It was directed by Kishore Sahu. Star cast of this movie included names like Ashok Kumar, Manoj Kumar, Mehmood, Sudesh Kumar, Iftekhar, Bipin Gupta, Pushpavalli, Lalita Pawar, Nirupa Roy, Indrani Mukherjee, Kanhaiyalal, Shobha Khote, Jagirdar, Achla Sachdev, Vandana, Niranjan Sharma, Rajshree etc.
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“Shabnam” (1964) was a Super Pictures production. It was produced and directed by Aspi Irani. The movie had actors like Mehmood, L.Vijayalaxmi, Sheikh Mukhtaar, Helen, Jeevan, Mukri, Shyam Kumar, Mohan Choti, Jerry, Cukku, Jeevan Kala, Fazal Khan, Uma Dutt, Suresh, Bismilla, Jullian, Khurshid Khan, Habib, Ramesh, Juggu, Surender, Mahabal, Tukaram, Gopal, Sinha, Narayan, Mithoo Miyaa, Shiraz, Shanta Kumari, Hiralal(Guest Artist), Moolchand etc in it.
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Neel gagan ki chhaaon mein
Posted on: February 24, 2012
This article is written by Raja, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Sometimes when I think back at how my taste in movies and songs has changed since I was a young boy, I can hardly believe that I’m the same person who, way back in the 70s, used to squirm in my seat whenever I’d hear one of those Lata Mangeshkar solos. 😉
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