Posts Tagged ‘1951’
Roun main saagar ke kinaare
Posted on: March 25, 2009
C H Atma was a devotee of K L Saigal who would sing in Saigal’s voice. All these days, I thought that he was a contemporary of Saigal, but no, it was not. C H Atma came into the scene after the death of Saigal.
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I listened to this song just now for the first time. And I was mesmerised.
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O sanam
Posted on: February 27, 2009
In olden days, love songs would often have words like “Chaand”, “raat” etc in their lyrics. Another interesting variation was where the hero would sing a sing in a moonlit night with tajmahal in the background.
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Aa gupchup gupchup pyaar karen
Posted on: February 16, 2009
This evergreen song from “Sazaa” has been sung by Hemant Kumar, Sandhya Mukherjee and chorus. I have little idea what the singers of the chorus sing, and so I have not written down the lyrics of the chorus. They either sing gibberish, or sing in a language that I am not familiar with. If any reader can tell what the lyrics are, I will add that.
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Ae dil na mujh se chhupa
Posted on: January 14, 2009
It is interesting to note that many film personalities in Bollywood had gone there to look for some other jobs than the one in which they finally made their marks.
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Seene mein sulagte hai armaan
Posted on: January 11, 2009
This movie is called “Tarana” (1951) and it had Dilip Kumar and Madhubala in the lead roles. This movie had some very good music composed by Anil Biswas on the lyrics written by Prem Dhawan.
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Lata gave some haunting songs in 1960s under the music direction of Madan Mohan. During that time two major music directors of the day, viz O P Nayyar and S D Burman were creating their music without Lata.
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Bade armaano se rakha hai balam
Posted on: November 11, 2008
It is a song from Malhaar (1951) when all the persons involved in the creation of this song were new in Bollywood industry. Fresh voices of Lata and Mukesh, who were finding their feet in Bollywood sing under the baton of Roshan, himself trying to establish himself as a music director and Shyamlal, who was writing his first lyrics in 5 years. Yes, Shyamlal was the real name of the lyricist who later became better known as Indeewar.
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Shaam dhale khidki tale
Posted on: November 10, 2008
“Albela”, a movie released in 1952 was a blockbuster in all respects, be it success of the movie at the box offfice or the popularity of its songs. Almost all its songs went on to become hugely popular.
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Shola jo bhadke dil mera dhadke
Posted on: November 1, 2008
“Albela” was a definitive movie in Bollywood history. Bhagwan, then a C grade movie producer, took a big risk in producing this movie which was a big step forward for him. He took a big financial risk in producing this movie, and his gamble paid off. It is another matter that he failed to replicate the success of this movie in his subsequent movies, and he went back to where he was, before this movie happened.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs
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