Posts Tagged ‘1955’
How the songs of “Azaad” (1955) were composed in an interesting tale in itself.
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“Insaaniyat” (1955) was one movie which brought Dilip Kumar and Dev Anand together. Bina Rai and Vijaylaxmi were also there in this movie.
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Suno suno ek nayi kahaani
Posted on: July 6, 2009
There are some songs which can be categorised as “story” songs. Here the singer tells a story in song form. In fact, telling story in song form is an old traditional art in India and Bollywood movies are definitely inspired from that tradition when coming up with such songs.
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Aaja dilruba mere dilruba
Posted on: June 28, 2009
This movie, called “Adal e Jahaangir” or “Adil e Jahaangir” ( any Idea what it may mean ? ) was a mythological movie and G P Sippy was the maker of this movie.
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Raat hai suhaani o nindiyaa raani
Posted on: June 24, 2009
Just like there are hit pairs of hero and heroine in movies, there used to be a hit pair of mother and child in 1950s. Meena Kumari would play mother of Daisy Irani in several movies.
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Saanwariyaa tumhaari nazar laagi
Posted on: June 20, 2009
I do not think too many people may be aware of this movie called “Aadil e Jahangir”(1955). I certainly was not. I recently found out that this movie was directed by G P Sippy, who is better known today for being the producer of “Sholay” (1975). This movie was one of the five movies that he directed. Otherwise he was mainly a producer of movies.
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Tu naa bataa hamen sab hai pataa
Posted on: May 20, 2009
Here is another interesting song from “Baap re Baap” (1955). I call this a “jhoola” song, where a lady (Smriti Biswas? Chand Usmani ? ) is swinging on a “jhoola” and singing this song. Kishore Kumar is also there and he goes round and round trees, dancing his unique dance and playing a mouth organ all the time.
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Daal kaise gale
Posted on: May 19, 2009
“Baap Re Baap” (1955) was one of the earliest movies of Kishore Kumar as an actor-singer. In this movie he sang a few comedy songs under the music direction of O P Nayyar.
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Pradeep wrote his songs with passion, and when given to sing, would sing with passion too. I have already posted a couple of superb song where Pradeep wrote the lyrics and sang them too.
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A few days ago, I posted a song from music director Ravi’s last movie, where he had not only composed the music, but wrote the lyrics and sang the song too. As far as singing songs is concerned, Ravi began singing from his very first movie as an independent music director.
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