Posts Tagged ‘1951’
Taaraa toote duniyaa dekhe
Posted on: December 15, 2010
Here is a song from “Malhaar” (1951) that is regarded as a timeless classic.
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Madan Mohan made his debut as a music director in 1950. In his debut movie “Aankhen” (1950), he used many singers, but curiously enough, Lata was not among them. From his next movie, Lata became an important singer for him.
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“Albela” (1951) was the ultimate highmark in the career of Bhagwan. This movie was a box office success and a musical extravaganza.
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“Jaadoo” (1951) is a movie starring Shyam,Nalini Jaiwant and others. As is the case with most movies of those days, the songs of this movie too are delightful songs to listen to.
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Vyjyanti Mala made her debut in Hindi movies with “Bahaar”(1951). In this movie,she was paired opposite Karan Dewan.
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Aankhon se poochh lo
Posted on: November 23, 2010
There is very little known about this movie called “Bedardi” (1951). I only know this much about this movie that it had actors like Nimmi, Geeta Bali, Jeewan, Jaswant (?), Amirbai Karnataki, I C Kapoor etc in it.
This movie is obscure and the same can be said about its music as well, but the songs of this movie are nice songs to listen to.
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Sajjad Hussain composed about 100 songs in Hindi movies and I have been trying to locate as many of these songs as I can and discuss them in this blog.
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“Shabistaan” (1951) was an Arabian Nights kind of fantasy movie. Such kind of movie were then regarded as B grade movie. “Stunt” movie was another name for such movies because these movies had lots of fights in them. In fact, Shyam, the hero of this movie, died on the stage of this movie while performing a stunt. He was riding a horse when he fell from the horse and died. To this date, this is regarded as one of the major disasters on the sets of Hindi movies.
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Get together songs, accompanied by piano were introduced in Hindi movies in late 1940s. Such songs became standard fare in Hindi movies and remained so for the next three decades or so.
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“Albela”(1951) was the biggest hit of Bhagwan’s career. It was the first time he made an A grade movie and reaped rich dividends. It is another matter that he could not capitalise on this success and soon he was back to making B grade movies again, in addition to acting as a comedian.
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