Posts Tagged ‘1953’
Though I subscribe to three newspapers daily, I rarely go through much of their contents and the newspapers finally end up with the “raddiwala” after a few months. But on saturdays I look forward to these newspapers, rather to one column of one newspaper. It is the “Swar panchami” column of Hindi newspaper “Dainik Bhaskar”. In this column, Vividh Bharati radio announcer Yunus Khan discusses a few old songs. And as can be guessed, this topic is right up my alley.
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There may be more Hindi movies called “Laila Majnu” than one can count, but the two main movies of this title that I can readily recall are the ones that came in 1953 and 1976. The 1953 movie had Nutan and Shammi Kapoor playing the legendary lovers while the same roles wre enacted by Ranjeeta and Shammi Kapoor’s nephew Rishi Kapoor , respectively.
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“Hazaar Raatein” (1953) is quite an obscure movie with equally obscure songs. That has not stopped us from discussing as many as two songs from this movie already in this blog.
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Teri yaad aa rahi hai
Posted on: July 21, 2011
“Hazaar Raatein” (1953) is by now an obscure movie. This movie had actors like Rehana, Manhar Desai, Agha, Cuckoo, Bipin Gupta, Kuldeep Akhtar, Amir Banu, Satya Narayan, Gajendra Singh, Yunus etc.in it.
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Here is a melancholic song from “Rail Ka Dibba” (1953). This song is sung by Shamshad Begam. Shakeel Badayuni is the lyicist and music is composed by Ghulam Mohammad.
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I am aware of the more popular songs of “Boot polish” (1953) and I have in fact discussed three songs from this movie in the past. I have not seen the movie, so I am not aware of all the songs of this movie.
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Mere dil ke musaafir khaane mein
Posted on: July 13, 2011
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
When the name of Ghulam Mohammed is mentioned, the mind conjures up the classical and semi classical sounds and rhythms, foremost from Pakeezaah and then from many other movies like Shamaa, Mirza Ghalib, Laila Majnu, Dil e Nadaan, Shaayar, and other such movies. And so it is a surprise to come across lighter songs and foot tapping numbers that have been composed under his baton. On first hearing, if the details are not known, one can easily attribute these songs to OP Nayyar or Shankar-Jaikishan, Chitragupt etc.
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Na wo hamaare na dil hamaaraa
Posted on: July 10, 2011
“Dil e Naadaan” (1953) is a movie starring Talat Mehmood, Shyama and Peace Kanwal.
Here is a song from this movie which is sung by Sudha Malhotra. The song is picturised on Shyama singing this melancholic song inside her room, with Peace Kanwal wondering outside what is going on.
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“Farmaaish” (1953) is a movie starring Bharat Bhushan, VijayLaxmi, Kuldeep Kaur, Pran,Gope, Maruti, Chandrashekhar etc. This Majestic films production was directed by B K Sagar.
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