Archive for the ‘Songs of 1963’ Category
This post is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog
The golden age of Bollywood film music is studded with many a stars who have been instrumental in creating wondrous melodies in all moods and rhythms. This includes stellar performers in all aspects of music, i.e. lyrics, composition and singing. As one looks back at the decades of 1930s to 1970s, there are many well known names that are considered shining stars of Hindi film music.
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“Grihasthhi” (1963) was a family drama in which Ashok Kumar and Nirupa Roy (the standard couple of those days) play the parents of no less than seven daughters ! So naturally, much of the movie revolves around the efforts of the parents to get their daughters married off.
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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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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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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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“Harishchandra Taramati” (1963) was a mythological movie in which Prithviraj Kapoor and Jaimala had played the lead (and title) roles with Bablu playing their son.
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Recently I had discussed a song from “Dil Hi To Hai” (1963) which was not included in the movie.
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“Dil Hi To Hai” (1963) has lots and lots of great songs in it. I have so far discussed six songs from this movie.
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Raat bhi hai kuchh bheegi bheegi
Posted on: December 6, 2010
“Mujhe Jeene Do” (1963) is a movie with a moving message. It was about the lives of bandits. What lies in store for the bandits who want to get reformed and join the mainstream of society, with same hopes and aspirations for their kids like normal people ? This movie is a moving picturisation on this issue.
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