Posts Tagged ‘1951’
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
This is the story of a 16 year old boy born in Peshawar in a conservative Pathan family for whom the association with film industry was a strict taboo. The boy was attracted to Bombay (Mumbai) as a destination. While listening to some Hindi film songs in one of the shops in Peshawar, a few of his friends coaxed him to try his luck as an actor in Hindi film industry since he had a good face. The fascination for Bombay coupled with the remarks from his friends were sufficient motivational factors for this youngboy to leave ( rather run away from) Peshawar for Bombay some time in 1935. The young boy was Ghulam Mustafa Durrani (1919-1988), later known in the Hindi film industry as G M Durrani, the playback singer.
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Sitaaron chaand se keh do
Posted on: July 6, 2012
A title like “Badi Bahu” (1951)suggests that the movie must be all about self sacrificing lead female character, and that may not send people like me to eagerly look forward to watch the movie. Not by a long shot !
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Sab kuchh karna is duniya mein
Posted on: June 24, 2012
“Adaa”(1951) was produced and directed by Devendra Goel. This movie had Rehana, Shanker, Gope, Madan Puri, Mohana, Shanta Kumari etc in it.
I have discussed six songs from this movie in the past. Interestingly enough, a large number of singers were used in the songs of this movie.
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Morey tumse ulajh gaye nainaa
Posted on: June 17, 2012
“Bedardi” (1951) was a Ranjit Movietone presentation. It was directed by Kidar Sharma. The movie had Geeta Bali, Nimmi, Cuckoo, Jaswant, Amirbai Karnataki, Nazira, Manju, Rashid Khan etc in it.
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“Adaa” (1951) was produced and directed by Devendra Goel. The movie had Rehana, Shanker, Gope, Madan Puri, Mohana, Shanta Kumari etc in it.
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“Adaa” (1951) was produced and directed by Devendra Goel. It was the second venture for his production house , the first being “Aankhen” (1950).
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Qadam qadam par bichche hain kaante
Posted on: May 28, 2012
Today (28th may), which happens to be the birthday of music director Vinod gives me a good reason to discuss a few songs composed by him. Vinod, whose real name was Eric Robert was born on 28th may 1922 at Lahore. He came to Bombay in late 1940s alongwith Roop K Shorey. Vinod composed music in about 32 Hindi movies and a few Punjabi movies. He was one of the pioneers of Hindi movie music during its formative years. He was one of those who used western music as well as Hinglish lyrics in his compositions at a time when such compositions were not quite in vogue.
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“Mukhda” (1951) is an obscure movie by now. It was a Shorey Pictures presentation. It was produced and directed by Roop K Shorey. The movie had Satish, Kuldip Kaur, Majnu, Neeta, Siddiqui, Kukku etc in it. I am surprised to note that the name of Meena Shorey, the wife of Roop K Shorey does not figure in the list of actors. The list of actors in the starcast could well be only partial.
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“Baadal” (1951) was a Verma Films presentation. The movie was directed by Amiya Chakraborty. Starcast of the movie had names like Premnath, Madhubala, Purnima, Hiralal, Randhir, S. Nazir, Agha etc.
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Jaane na haaye ye duniya
Posted on: May 22, 2012
“Buzdil” (1951) was a Filmarts presentation. It was directed by Shahid Lateef. The starcast of the movie had Premnath, Nimmi, Cuckoo, Kishore Sahu, Shahgul, Kanhaiyalal, Sunalini Devi etc in it.
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