Posts Tagged ‘1951’
Chhod mujhe na jaanaa
Posted on: April 13, 2011
“Madhosh” (1951) has one hero (Manhar Desai) and two heroines (Meena Kumari and Usha Kiran). In this movie, Manhar Desai got to lip sync in the voice of Talat Mehmood. The two leading ladies, who was seen to romance the same hero, were also made to lip sync in the same voice, viz that of Lata.
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Meri aankhon ki neend le gayaa
Posted on: April 12, 2011
“Madhosh” (1951) is a movie starring Manhar, Usha Kiran and Meena Kumari. This movie is today known known for its music.
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Jab aane waale aate hain
Posted on: April 11, 2011
When Madan Mohan began his career as a music director with “Aankhen” (1950), he used several singers and lyricists in that movie. Interestingly, Lata was not among those several singers. He began using Lata from his subsequent movies. And he also made use of less number of singers and lyricists in these movies.
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Yaad aane lagee
Posted on: April 1, 2011
“Daman” (1951) is a movie that had Karan Dewan, Nigar Sultana, Ajit etc in lead roles. This movie has ended up becoming an obscure movie by now, and not much is known about this movie.
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Tirulila tirulila tirulila la
Posted on: March 31, 2011
“Daaman” (1951) is an obscure movie which had Ajit, Nigar Sultana, Agha,Pran etc in it.
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I have discussed five songs from “Malhaar” (1951) so far that are rather better known and readily available.
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Ik baar agar tu kah de
Posted on: March 22, 2011
“Malhaar” (1951) is quite a musical blockbuster of its time which firmly established Roshan’s credentials as a high quality music director.
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In olden days, tear jerker movies had a good market in India. These movies often had long suffering women shown to make sacrifices for no apparent reason and also singing nice songs in the bargain.
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Iskaa kyaa matlab hai
Posted on: February 28, 2011
“Sanam” (1951) had Suraiyya, Dev Anand, Meena Kumari, K N Singh, Gope, Pratima Devi, Jillo etc in it. In addition to being a box office hit, this movie was a musical blockbuster. I have already discussed five songs from this movie.
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I keep discoving forgotten songs from forgotten movies quite regularly. Here is one such song that I discovered a few hours ago.
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