Posts Tagged ‘1955’
Ye duniya ek saagar hai
Posted on: April 20, 2012
“Bandish” (1955) was a Basu Chitra Mandir Production. It was directed by Satyen Bose. The movie had Ashok Kumar, Meena Kumari,Mehmood, Pratima Devi,Bipin Gupta, Meena Kumari, Daisy Irani, Bhanu Banerji, N. Hussain, Sajjan, Shammi, Indira, Narbada Shanker etc in it.
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Zaraa hamse nigaahen milaa
Posted on: April 15, 2012
“Miss Coca Cola” (1955), it turns out , had the same storyline as “Aaya Saawan Jhoom Ke” (1969). Interestingly, “Miss Coca Cola” (1955) flopped miserably, wheras “Aaya Saawan Jhoom Ke” (1969) was a big success at the box office.
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In 1950s, we had a genre of songs where a lady, alone or accompanied by other co workers carrying basket on her head would be going on her way to her work while singing a song. The hero and heroine would be at hand to listen to the song. The song in a way would express the feelings that the leading duo have for each other but are too shy to express themselves. alternatively the song may set the tone for the movie. Such a song is there in “Aar Paar” (Kabhi aar kabhi paar ),”Do Aankhen Barah Haath” (Sainya jhoothon ka bada sartaaj nikla), CID (Boojh mera kyaa naam re ) etc. I am trying to think of a name that describes such songs, but I am unable to find an appropriate descriptive name for such a genre of songs. I request our readers to help out in suggesting a name for such songs.
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Kabhi kabhi mere dil
Posted on: April 13, 2012
“Miss Cocacola” (1955) is the only movie where Shammi Kapoor and Geeta Bali worked together. Shammi Kapoor never got to watch the movie and when he felt like watching it in his later years for the sake of nostalgia, the prints of this movie were all gone.
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Jeena hai kyaa koi kyaa jaane
Posted on: April 12, 2012
“Miss Cocacola” (1955) was a Danny Production movie. It was directed by Kedar Kapoor. Starcast of the movie included names like Shammi Kapoor, Geeta Bali, Lalita Pawar, Om Prakash, Johnny Walker, Helen,Kuldip Kaur, Kamal Kapoor, Mumtaz Begum. This movie was Shammi Kapoor’s movie from his pre stardom days and a movie where he acted opposite Geeta Bali, his would be wife. Unfortunately the prints of this movie are not available. Not just public, even Shammi Kapoor had not seen this movie and it was Shammi Kapoor’s fond wish to be able to see this movie.
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Ae dard e jigar fariyaad na kar
Posted on: April 11, 2012
I became aware of the movie when farmaish for a song of this movie was given by a reader some two years back. The reader had mentioned the movie as “Banu” which was a typo and as a result my search was delayed. Finally I located the song. Being able to home in on this elusive song gave me tremendous satisfaction. That song was the first song from this movie to be posted in this blog. Subsequently I have discussed two more songs from this movie.
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Mitwa mitwa
Posted on: April 10, 2012
I have often mentioned it that lyrics are the soul of songs. One of the main reasons why the songs of the golden era went on to become timeless classics was that great importance was given to lyrics of the songs. There have been instances when the music directors patiently waited for the lyricist to come up with the lyrics of the song.
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Zara seekh lo ankhiyon sharmaana
Posted on: April 6, 2012
“Vachan”(1955) was a Goel Cine Corporation movie. It was produced by Devendra Goel and directed by Raj Rishi. The movie had Rajendra Kumar, Geeta Bali, Neelma, Madan Puri, S. K. Prem, Radhakrishen, Raajdeep, Praveen Paul, Babboo etc in it.
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Ab aage teri marzi
Posted on: April 2, 2012
Among all the movies based on the story of “Devdas”,”Devdas”(1955) is arguably the most memorable one in all respects, and unarguably so as far as its music is comcerned. The musical team of this movie, as well as the team on whom the songs were picturised cannot be replicated again.
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