Posts Tagged ‘1953’
Kahta hai ye dil chal unse mil
Posted on: December 18, 2010
“Naghmaa” (1953) is a movie about which very little is known. The video of its songs are apparently not available so we only have audio of songs of this movie. I have so far discussed two songs from this movie.
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I am aware of a movie called “Laila Majnu” that was released in 1970s. But there was another movie of this name that was released in 1953. Here is a song from “Laila Majnu” (1953).
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Here is a song from “Naghma” (1953). Only the audio of this song is available so it is difficult to tell who the actor was on whom this song was picturised. For that matter I find it difficult to say who the singer is. All sources describe the voice as Shamshad Begam’s though the voice sounds rather different to me. Can anyone confirm/correct who the singer could be ?
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I was not aware of this movie called “Naghma”(1953). Now I know about this movie and I wonder how the songs of this movie have managed to escape the attention of music lovers.
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“Anarkali” (1953) is full of iconic songs. I have discussed as many as six songs from this movie in the past, but there are still songs (that too iconic songs) that are not yet covered.
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In 1950s, Talat Mehmood, then a leading playback singer, also tried his hands in acting. He started played leading roles in several movies.
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Tumse hai pyaar mujhe
Posted on: December 4, 2010
In Hindi movies, lyrics tended to be laden with Urdu words mainly because the major lyricists of that time were more comfortable with Urdu words than Sanskrit origin Hindi words. The plea was that simple words were needed for the movies. Ironically, the words used in Hindi movie songs were not really common man’s words for those whose mother tongue was Hindi. So Hindi speakers had difficulty understanding many words in Hindi movies.
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In early 1950s, movies like “Jhamela” and “jhaanjhar” were produced and the songs of these movies were big rage. No one remembers these movies though. The reason is, the prints of these movies were destroyed in a fire that took place in the place where the prints of these movies were kept.
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“Aagosh” (1953), a forgotten movie by now, had Nasir Khan, Nutan and Shakila.
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Muhabbat ek sholaa hai
Posted on: November 17, 2010
“Aagosh” (1953) was a movie starring Nasir Khan (Dilip Kumar’s brother), Nutan,Shakeela, Agha etc. Today this movie may not be much known, but its songs were quite popular during its time.
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