Posts Tagged ‘1949’
Hans le gaa le o chaand mere
Posted on: March 1, 2011
I have discussed as many as six songs from “Jeet” (1948) in this blog. Most of these songs were sung by Suraiyya, the then reigning acting-singing superstar. But this movie also had a new emerging voice that was tipped to go far. Yes, Lata Mangeshkar was also given an opportunity of playback singing in this movie.
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I have discussed as many as seven songs from “Dillagi” (1949) already in this blog. So I thought that there was no other song left in this movie to be discussed. But I was wrong. There are a few more songs in this movie that are still missing in this blog.
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Aaj koi hai aanewaalaa
Posted on: February 21, 2011
“Shair” (1949) is a movie starring Suraiyya and Dev Anand. The movie did well at the box office. This movie was a musical blockbuster. I have discussed as many as six songs from this movie in these pages in the past.
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I have discussed a song from “Saawan Aaya Re”(1949) in the past. Here is another song from this movie. The song shows a lady asking the man (Kishore Sahu) to marry her whereas the man who is having a parallel affair with her sister as well, naturally tries to stall her, asking her that there is all the time in the world for all that and one should rather spend that time in activities such and singing and dancing. On his prompting, this song and dance commences.
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Stumbling upon unheard of musical gems has become almost a daily routine with me. Today is no exception.
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Tum meet mere tum praan mere
Posted on: January 25, 2011
“Jeet” (1949) is a movie that paired Suraiyya (a popular star of the time) with Dev Anand, then a new comer.
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Aise mein agar tum aa jaate
Posted on: January 9, 2011
“Balam”(1949) is a movie that had Suraiyya in it alongwith Wasti,Nigar Sultana, Agha etc. This movie is also significant for the fact that Suraiyya and Lata sang together for the first time (out of a total of just five such occasions). I have in fact already discussed the first such Lata-Suraiyya duet which is O o pardesi musaafir kise kartaa hai ishaare .
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Dil do nainon mein kho gayaa
Posted on: December 26, 2010
“Sunahre Din” (1949) was a movie where Raj Kapoor, a newcomer was paired opposite Rehana, an established star of the times. This movie had some nice songs in it and I have discussed a couple of songs from this movie already.
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Bahaaron ne jise chhedaa hai
Posted on: December 22, 2010
Radio songs where a long lost individual sings live on radio station and his beloved just happens to be listening to that very radio station- this was one variation of lost and found themes that Hindi movies have been so fond of.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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