Archive for the ‘Songs of 1960s (1961 to 1970)’ Category
Apne piya ki prem pujaaran
Posted on: December 18, 2010
Few people today remember this movie called “Aman” (1967). It must have been a huge flop for this movie to end up like this considering that the movie had big names in it. Rajendra Kumar and Saira Bano were leading names during those days and Shankar Jaikishan were the biggest names in music direction those days. But all these big names could not rescue this movie.
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Allah bachaaye naujawaanon se
Posted on: December 18, 2010
“Mere Mehboob” (1963) is a kind of movie that is popularly described as a Muslim social movie. This movie, like most movies of this genre had wonderful songs in it. In fact, the music of this movie was the major reason behind the success of this movie , the actors of this movie were just in the right place at the right time and benefitted from the roaring success of the music of this movie.
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This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
“Nishan” (1965) is a B grade film, produced under the banner of Wadia Brothers Productions, Bombay, and directed by Aspi Irani. The star line up include Sheikh Mukhtaar,Sanjeev Kumar, Nazima, Prem Chopra, Helen, Mukri, Sulochana, Heeralal, Shammi, Ratnamala, Uma Dutt, Mitthoo Miyan etc. The film boasts of some very hummable and memorable songs. Lyrics for the songs are created by Jawed Anwar and the music composition is by Usha Khanna. It is interesting to note that Jawed Anwar is the pen name of Manohar Lal Khanna, the real life father of Usha Khanna.
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Sun re sun albele
Posted on: December 17, 2010
Hindi Tarzan movies typically had Dara Singh playing the role of Tarzan, with Mumtaz playing his love interest. Here, in this movie called “Tarzan Comes To Delhi” (1965), Mumtaz decided to bring Tarzan in contact with civilisation. Here she takes Tarzan and his diminutive assistant Bhagwan to a hotel.
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Meghwaa gagan beech jhaanke
Posted on: December 17, 2010
In mainstream Hindi movies of the golden era, there used to be a dance situation in a night club, which was tailor made for a cabarat dance by Helen. Movie makers whose movies were based on pre cabarat dance eras (viz Historical/mythological/Fantasy movies)also found dance situations where Helen and other dacing ladies were shown to dance in the courts of Kings.
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Dil jo bhi kahegaa maanenge
Posted on: December 17, 2010
There are many movies that have one song that included the name of the title in its lyrics. I describe such songs as title songs.
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I keep repeating ad infinitum that there are so many great songs lying all around as far as Hindi movie music is concerned. And these gems are not always the creation of well known music directors. Even lesser known and unsung composers have created great songs for which they received no recognition. worse, their creation was later used by other better known musicians as their own.
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Gusse mein jo nikhraa hai
Posted on: December 16, 2010
I have been discussing the remaining songs of “Dil Hi To Hai” (1963) these days. In this series here is the ninth song from this movie.
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Jalti huyi jawaaniyaan
Posted on: December 15, 2010
Here is a stunning song from a forgotten movie.
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I have noticed that Hindi movies rarely show actors keeping pets like say cats and dogs. When I was growing up in 1960s and 1970s, most Indian families regarded keeping pets a luxury that average families could ill afford. Then there were people who were superstitious and they thought that a cat especially black one crossing their path was inauspicious. Only villains would keep pets in Hindi movies.
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