Posts Tagged ‘1955’
Wo din kahaan gaye mere
Posted on: May 5, 2010
“Vachan” (1955) was the first movie of Ravi as an independent music director, and this movie saw Ravi’s career getting launched in a grand way. In this movie, Ravi composed an iconic song viz “Chandaa mama door ke”.
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Music director Ravi (full name Ravishankar Sharma) does not occupy as much mindshare in public mind as many other music directors of the golden era of Bollywood movie music do . Many younger music lovers in fact ask “Ravi who ?” when his name crops up in discussions.
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Barkhaa ki raat mein he ho haa
Posted on: April 14, 2010
There are some songs about which I come to know by reading about them. But when I look for them, these songs are extremely elusive, as they are not available anywhere.
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Mud mud ke na dekh mud mud ke
Posted on: April 13, 2010
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I just realised that I had posted very few songs from “Shri 420″(1955) in this blog. To make amends, I posted one song yesterday. Here is another song from this movie.
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Mera joota hai Japani
Posted on: April 12, 2010
I have posted over 2400 songs in this blog already. I just realised that the iconic song “Mera Joota Hai Japani” is not yet posted. I will not call an oversight. In fact, it is a tribute to the quality and quantity of awesome songs that one can post so many songs and still many more great songs would still be left undiscussed.
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“Udan Khatola” (1955) is a movie that had some nice songs in it. As many as three songs from this movie had figured in the list of top 16 songs of the year 1955 in the Binaca geetmala annual list of 1955.
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Aayi jhoom ke bahaar
Posted on: April 3, 2010
“Insaaniyat” (1955) was the first (and last) time that Dilip Kumar and Dev Anand were cast together in one movie. Dev Anand was (mis)cast as a dacoit wearing a mustache who gets reformed when a girl (Bina Rai) slaps him. 😉
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These days I am posting the songs of “Munimji” (1955). This movie had Dev Anand and Nalini Jaiwant in lead roles.
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Saajan bin neend naa aawe
Posted on: March 28, 2010
There are many musical gems that are not known to many because these songs were omitted from the movie. I have posted several such songs here.
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Jhukaa jhukaa ke nigaahen
Posted on: March 7, 2010
“Miss Coca Cola” (1955) is a movie where Shammi Kapoor and Geeta Bali, who later on went on to get married, were paired together. Unfortunately, no prints of this movie are apparently available, so we have little idea of how the duo fared in this movie.
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