Posts Tagged ‘1955’
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Om Prakash holds a special position amongst the comedy / character artists in the Hindi film world. Hailing from Jammu (born 1919), he started his acting career on stage. Then after a brief stint at the All India Radio in Lahore, he got his first major break in the movies in early 1940s, with the famous producer director DS Pancholi. He did some movies in Lahore, including Daasi, Dhamki, and Aayee Bahaar. After partition, he moved to Bombay. In a career that lasted a little over five decades, he is credited with acting in 300 plus films. Om Prakash has always held out on his own even in the presence of many leading lights of their times, having worked with the three great actors of 50s and 60s, down to working with Big B in the 1980s. And his repertoire is not limited to small, comedy roles only. He has a fair share of pivotal roles that he played in many movies during his career; in fact the success of many movies is attributed to his roles, viz. Chupke Chupke, Julie, Sharaabi, Namak Halaal, Gopi, Sadhu aur Shaitaan, Annadata, Buddha Mil Gaya etc.
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Gham na kar khushi ka daur aayegaa
Posted on: June 21, 2011
If you want to discover unheard of musical gems from Hindi movies, then the best bet would be to look for B grade movies. The catch is, finding such B grade movies can be a tall order as such movies as well as their music tends to be highly elusive.
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Taqdeer ki gardish kyaa kam thhi
Posted on: June 19, 2011
“Sitaaraa” (1955) is a by now forgotten movie that had Pradeep Kumar and Vyjyantimala in lead roles. The songs of this movie are just as obscure as the movie itself. But I have found that the songs of this movie are gems.
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Sainyyaa jaao jaao
Posted on: June 19, 2011
“Jhanak Jhanak Paayal Baaje” (1955) was a V Shantaram movie which starred Gopi Krishna and Sandhya in lead roles. This movie had several nice songs in it and I have discussed four songs out of them.
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Jaan gayi hoon pehchaan gayi hoon
Posted on: June 12, 2011
“Teen Bhai” (1955) is not a movie too many people may be aware of. Its songs are equally obscure.
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“Adl e Jahangir” (1955) is a movie that is full of wonderful songs. I have discussed three songs from this movie in the past.
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Suno suno jee more rasiyaa
Posted on: June 8, 2011
V Shantaram movies tended to have himself and his wife (Sandhya/Jayshree- as the case may be) in his movies. And he tended to have Vasant Desai as the music director of his movies.
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Chaand sitaare karte ishaare
Posted on: June 7, 2011
“Adl e Jahaangir” (1955) was the first movie directed by G P Sippy of “Sholay” (1975) fame. this movie had Pradeep Kumar and Meena Kumari in lead roles.
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“Oonchi Haweli” (1955) is an obscure movie by now. Few information seems to be available about this movie except that this movie had actors like Karan Dewan,,Nirupa Roy,Bhagwan,Lalita Pawar, B M Vyas etc in it. This movie was produced by Sharad Production and it was directed by Dhirubai Desai.
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