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6396 | Post No. : | 19842 |
#the Decade of Fifties – 1951 – 1960 #
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(Lyricist Kavi Pradeep-53)
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We resume our journey of Kavi Pradeep songs after a gap of more than a month. I had planned to post Kavi Pradeep songs regularly because we have yet to cover many of the songs that he wrote for Hindi films.
Today’s song is from the movie ‘Basant Panchami-1956’. This movie has ten songs written by Kavi Pradeep. Chitragupt was the music director. Asha Bhonsle and Kavi Pradeep were the playback singers. The movie had two duets and eight solo songs by Asha Bhonsle. So far, five songs from this movie have already been posted on this blog. Today we are going to listen to the sixth song from this movie.
‘Basant Panchami-1956’ was directed by Jayant Desai for ‘Hemlata Pictures’. Jayant Desai was also the producer of this movie and it was passed by Censor Board on 24.07.1956. ‘Basant Panchami-1956’ was a devotional or ‘bhakti pradhaan’ movie. The cast of this movie included Nirupa Roy, Anant Kumar, Jeevan, S.N. Tripathi, Radhakishan, Yashodhara Katju, Niranjan Sharma, Kumkum, Babu Raje, Charubala, Anand Joshi, Sukumar, Dubey, Uma Dutt, Naazi, Shri Bhagwan and others.
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Main to aa ke lut gayee
Posted on: January 21, 2026
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6396 | Post No. : | 19841 |
Today’s song is from an imaginary (Kalpanik) film – Hatimtai ki Beti-1955.
The film was produced and directed by Nanubhai Vakil for his own banner Vakil productions, Bombay. Music was by A.R.Qureshi, assisted ably by the yesteryear’s composer, Damodar Sharma. Sharma was one of the well known Music Directors of the early era films. Among the old era MDs, Damodar Sharma was different, in the sense that his songs were always unlike those of his contemporaries. When you hear his songs, you will notice that difference. From 1934 to 1948, he gave music to just 41 films. All his films were C grade films made by Paramount, Liberty, Ramnik Productions, Mohan Pictures and others. After 1948, he stopped getting films, so he worked as assistant to MD A.R.Qureshi till 1964.
The cast of the film included Chitra, Mahipal, Daljit, Krishnakumari, Kamal, Kammo, Heera Sawant, Helen, Ruhi, Tun Tun, Naaz,Maruti, Sunder, Kesari, W.M.Khan and others. The guest artistes were Heeralal, Ram Singh, Al Nasir etc. Lyricists were Shevan Rizvi and Kaifi Azmi.
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Jaanee dilbar jaanee
Posted on: January 20, 2026
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6395 | Post No. : | 19840 |
Kamsune/Unsune songs of Asha Bhosle – 84
Today, 20th January 2026 is the 21st death anniversary of one of the most glamorous actress of the 70s and early 80s – Parveen Babi.
Parveen Babi was an iconic Indian actress and model who became one of the most successful and highest-paid stars in Hindi cinema during the 1970s and early 1980s. She was celebrated for her westernized fashion sense and glamorous screen presence, which broke traditional stereotypes of the era.
Born on April 4, 1954 in Junagadh, Gujarat, into the noble Babi Dynasty. She attended St. Xavier’s College, Ahmedabad, where she earned a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature. Her academic background was considered quite prestigious for a film actress at the time.
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6395 | Post No. : | 19839 |
‘Ek Baar Kaho’ (1980) was produced under the banner of Rajshree Productions and was directed by Lekh Tandon. The cast included Navin Nischol and Shabana Azmi in lead roles with Dilip Dhawan and Kiran Vairale in the second lead roles. The supporting cast included Madan Puri, Anil Kapoor, Rajendranath, Jagdeep, Hari Shivdasani, Arvind Deshpande, Shivraj, Rajan Kapoor, Colonel Kapoor, Avtar Gill, Ratan Gurung etc.
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Kaisee laagee karejwaa kataar
Posted on: January 20, 2026
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6395 | Post No. : | 19837 |
Today’s song is from a social film Ferry aka Kashti-1954.
Produced and directed by Hemen Gupta for his own banner Film trust of India, Bombay, the film had music by hemant kumar. In this film, his assistant was Ravi (Ravi Shankar Sharma), who soon made his Debut as an independent Music Director with the film ” Vachan “-1955. However, for many films even after ‘Vachan’, he continued to be an assistant to Hemant Kumar. Wherever possible, he also used Hemant Kumar as a Playback singer in the films wherein he was the Music Director.
The cast of the film was Geeta Bali, Dev Anand, Ram Singh, Gulab, Chand Burke, Premlata, Janaki Das, Master Babu, Baby Bula and many others. Geeta Bali’s name appeared before Dev’s, because this was her 48th film compared to 35th film of Dev Anand, thus she was senior.
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6394 | Post No. : | 19836 | Movie Count : |
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Pancham’s Music – Eighties-to-Nineties (1981-1994…) Duets-8
This duet composition by Rahul Dev Burman is from the 1990 movie ‘Dushman’. This title “Dushman” was also released in the years 1939, 1957, 1971 and 1998. All these four movies are already represented in the blog. “Dushman”(1990) came 19 years after “Dushman “(1971). Among all “Dushman” ( 🙂 ) I guess that the movie released in 1971 starring Rajesh Khanna in the title role (Dushman chaachaa 🙂 ) must be the most popular and successful of all these movies.
“Dushman”(1990) was directed by Shakti Samanta for ‘Shakti Films, Bombay’ i.e. his home productions. The cast of this movie has Mithoon Chakravarty, Mandakini, Sadashiv Amrapurkar, Alok Nath, Deepa Sahi, Tanuja, Biplab Chatterjee, Vijay Arora, Ranjeet, Tarun Ghosh, Manek Dutt, Bob Christo, Ravi Nandi, Shakti Thakur, Anirudh Agarwal and others. This movie was passed by the Censor Board on 12.03.1990.
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Kehtee hoon har baar yahee
Posted on: January 19, 2026
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6394 | Post No. : | 19835 |
“Taajposhi”(1957) was produced by Tejnath Zaar and directed by Dwarka Khosla for Zaar Productions, Bombay. The movie had Shyama, Ranjan, Shammi, Manju, Maruti, Jeevan, Praveen Pal, Bhagwan Sinha, Kanchanmala, Satish Batra, Gopal Vashishtha etc in it. Kammo had a guest appearance in this movie.
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6394 | Post No. : | 19834 |
Today ‘s song is a typical 1950’s Fun song from a Mythological film – Durga Pooja-1954.
The film was produced by Dhirubhai Desai and his son Sharad Desai for their family banner Sharad Productions, Bombay. The director of this film was Dhirubhai Desai. Music Director was a veteran of such films – S.N.Tripathi. He used 4 lyricists for the film’s 10 songs namely, Bharat Vyas (3 songs), G.S.Nepali (2), B.D.Mishra (3) and Saraswati Kumar ‘Deepak’ (2). The cast included Nirupa Roy, Trilok Kapoor, Shahu Modak, Kamal( wife of comedian actor Maruti), Yashodhara Katju, Ratnamala, S.N.Tripathi, Rajkumar Khatri, Indira Bansal, Yashwant Dave etc.
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