Posts Tagged ‘1955’
Tu pyaar ka saagar hai
Posted on: March 16, 2009
Meena Kumari is regarded as the first great tragedy queen of Bollywood movies. But in reality that crown rightfully belongs to Nutan. Nutan had begun playing tragic roles as early as 1955 when Meena Kumari was still playing happy bubbly roles.
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Main gareebon ka dil hoon
Posted on: February 13, 2009
It is a very old song from a very old movie. Premnath used to play roles of a hero those days.
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“Udan Khatola” had some fantastic songs composed by Naushad which are popular even today.
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Jab liya haath mein haath
Posted on: February 4, 2009
“Vachan” was a movie produced by Devendra Goel. This movie was also the debut movie of Ravi as a music director. Ravi, who was till then an assistant of Hemant Kumar made a mark as an independent music director with this movie and he never looked back since.
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More sainyaa ji utrenge paar
Posted on: February 1, 2009
This song from “Udan Khatola” should have been an “udan Khatola” song, but I find that it is just a “boat” song. The boatwoman ( who is she ?) is required to carry Dilip Kumar and Nimmi to the other bank of the river and she states that her song should enable the duo reach there safely.
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It is a song that I call as a “Tonga” song, and for good reasons. The music of O P Nayyar very much reminds one of a horse hoofing along merrily drawing the tonga along. And the picturisation actually shows a tonga with Kishore Kumar and Chand Usmani as its passengers.
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Bechain nazar betaab jigar
Posted on: November 22, 2008
This song is a C Ramchandra composition. For the singer Talat Mahmood, this is a different kind of song. This song can be regarded as Talat Mahmood’s version of a fun timepass song.
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When one talks of tragic actors, what are the names that come to mind ? Guru Dutt and Meena Kumari ? It may be news for people, but in the first decade of their career viz 1950s, they were both known for playing positive, energetic ,bubbly characters oozing with zest for life.
The crown for being the first major tragedy queen of that era should rightfully belong to Nutan. She played quite a few memorable tragic roles in movies. She in fact played a tragic role as early as in 1955 in a movie called “Seema”.
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