Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs

Archive for the ‘Songs of 1962’ Category


With Hindi movie songs of the golden era, finding unknown gems in easy. Just look at the songs of any forgotten movie or look for less popular songs from better known movies. And more often than not, one will come up with a good collection of great unknown songs on a regular basis.
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This writeup is provided by Raja, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor of articles for this blog.

There are some songs that grow on you. And there are some songs you fall in love with the very first time you hear them. It is like “love at first hear” instead of “love at first sight”.
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The lyrics for this song has been provided by Sudhir, a new visitor of this blog and a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movies and its songs

Rail songs are those songs in which Hindi movie actors are singing the song aboard a train. I am aware of around 40-50 Rail songs from Hindi movies. Most of them have been discussed in this blog. I continue to discover “new” rail songs quite frequently and a few of them are so good that I have earmarked them to be discussed on special occasions for this blog.
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To the best of my knowledge, there have been two movies called “Jhoola”. The earlier one was released in 1942 and the later one came in 1962. These two movies may have been forgotten , but the music of both these movies are wonderful to listen to.
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I have discussed many patriotic songs from Hindi movies in this blog. But one of the most popular of all Hindi patriotic songs in a non movie song. This song , “ae mere watan ke logon” was created by C Ramchandra to boost the morale of the Indian Army who were then fighting external aggression against heavy odds.
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One of my major sources of discovering “new” songs is the farmaishes that I get from my readers. These farmaishes have enabled me to enrich my knowledge of old movie songs considerably and that has enabled me to share those gems with my readers.
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In Hindi movies, we have teasing songs that are typically sung by male actors. I just realised that if there is a teaser, then there has to a a teased as well. and there are songs sung by teased as well. the teased lady would typically sing a song with words like “chhodo meri kalaayi”, “koi dekh legaa” etc etc.
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