Archive for the ‘Songs of 1963’ Category
I had neither heard this song nor the name of the movie this song is from. Name of the movie is “Road No 303” (1960). YT, whose information is always required to be taken with a pinch of salt, mentions the year as 1963. This B grade movie was a Mahesh Pictures production and it was directed by Dharmesh Kumar. The movie had Mehmood, Shubha Khote,Bhagwan, Helen, Tiwari, K. N. Singh,etc in it. I found that the year of release of this song is variously shown as 1959, 1960 and 1963.
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Wo din yaad karo
Posted on: April 18, 2012
This article is written by nahm, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
The moment we see the caption for this song “woh din yaad karo, woh din yaad karo ” the mind somehow produced the image of Mehmood and Shobha Khote singing this. I dont know how it happened to me, because I dont remember seeing this song before. I havent seen this movie either. This song was frequently played on vividh bharati. May be my mother had told me that this was a Mehmood -Shobha Khote song, and the information was stored somewhere in the deep recesses. Similar thing happened the other day with ‘Ajahun na aaye baalma saawan beeta jaaye”. This song from ‘Saanjh aur Savera’ has roughly the same team of Mehmood-Shobha, with only S. Kalyanpur replacing Lata. It is a classical, sort of jugalbandi song. When I saw the video I knew I had seen it on T.V. in “Chhaayageet ” or “Chitrahaar”.
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Duniya mein mohabbat waalon ki
Posted on: April 18, 2012
“Pyaar Kiya To Darna Kyaa” (1963) was a Vikram Productions movie. It was directed by B S Ranga. The movie had Shammi Kapoor, B. Saroja Devi, Prithviraj Kapoor, Shobha Khote, Helen, Nasir Hussain, Agha, Pushpavalli, Om Prakash, Pran etc in it.
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Aa meri aankhon ki gehraayee mein
Posted on: April 17, 2012
“Pyaar Ka Bandhan” (1963) was an N S Films production. It was produced and directed by NS, where NS stood for Naresh Saigal. The movie had Raj Kumar, Nishi,Helen, Naaz,Dhumal, Pratima Devi, Jagdish Raaj, Johnny Walker etc in it.
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This article is written by Nahm, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a new contributor of write ups to this blog.
I am totally overwhelmed with the response to my first write up. I want to thank Atul ji for posting it almost immediately. Thus encouraged I am now ready to do my second post. What could be the second step after a Lata solo ? No prizes for quessing, it has to be a Rafi solo. Mohammed Rafi solo by O.P.Nayyar to be precise. I would have preferred to have a solo song by S D Burman. I like O.P.Nayyar songs a lot, but S D Burman and Madan Mohan’s songs are my favourites. I have a few song by them lined up for discussion, Atul ji permitting.
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Aaj duniya badi suhaani hai
Posted on: April 12, 2012
“Nartaki” (1963) was a Film Bharti Production. It was directed by Satyen Nitin Bose. The movie had Sunil Dutt, Nanda, Om Prakash, Agha, Preeti Bala, Nana Palsikar, Chandrima Bhaduri, Moni Chatterjee, Aruna Irani etc in it.
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O bedardi kyun tadpaaye
Posted on: April 7, 2012
This article is written by Khyati Bhatt, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
The world of Hindi Classical Music has produced so many maestros both in vocal and in instrumental category. We have different maestros of different gharanas in the field of vocal music and same is the case in different instrument categories too. In the field of string instuments, we have sitar, veena, sarangi, sarod, and a few more. When we take the name or even think of sitar, the first name that comes to our mind is Pandit Ravi Shankar, whose real name is Robindro Shaunkor Chowdhury.
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Dekho bijli doley bin baadal ke
Posted on: April 4, 2012
O P Nayyar would not employ the voice of Lata Mangeshkar in his compositions, but no one found it ironic that Lata Mangeshkar’s younger sister became the mainstay of O P Nayyar compositions.
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“Pyaar Kiya To Darna Kyaa” (1963) was a Vikram Productions movie. It was directed by B S Ranga. The movie had Shammi Kapoor, B. Saroja Devi, Pran, Prithviraj Kapoor, Om Prakash, Agha, Helen, Shobha Khote, Nazir, Hussain, Pushpawalli, Rukmini Devi etc in it.
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