Posts Tagged ‘1956’
Kaise aaoon Jamuna ke teer
Posted on: October 8, 2012
“Devta” (1956) was produced by Narayana and co. It was directed by Pattana. The movie had Gemini Ganeshan, Anjali Devi, Vyjyantimala, Krishna Kumari, Agha, Daisy Irani, Indira, Nambiar, K Krishna, Bipin Gupta, Kamala etc in it.
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Whenever I am reminded of “Jaagte Raho”(1956), I am reminded of the wonderful drunkard song from this movie which is sung by Mukesh and picturised on Motilal. This song,Zindagi khwaab hai is picturised on a fully drunk Motilal swaying merrily in empty streets and going towards his home, with Raj Kapoor looking on.
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Dhitang dhitang boley
Posted on: September 26, 2012
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
AAWAAZ (1956) was a Mehboob Production film directed by Zia Sarhadi. I do not know the story of the film but when Mehboob and Zia Sarhadi come together for a film, one can expect that with their leftist ideologies, the film would depict the class conflict between rich and poor. The film had Rajendra Kumar and Nalini Jaywant in the lead roles with Usha Kiran, Zul Vellani, Nazir Hussain, Leela Chitnis, D K Sapru, Jagdeep, Anwar Hussain, etc in the supporting roles. With a story of class conflicts and Nazir Hussain and Leela Chitnis in the film, one can visualise that the film would have a lot of melodramatic contents.
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This article is written by nahm, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
One song from this film “Yahudi ki Beti” was posted in the blog by Sudhir Sir. This link to this particular song under discussion now has been with me for a long time. There is a lot of confusion in youtube and even earthmusic.net about the name of the music director of this film. Even the name of singer is also a confusion. This particular link that I have found is for Mohammed Rafi solo version. The clip itself is giving the name of music director as Hemant Kumar. Earthmusic mentions this song as sung by Lata Mangeshkar and also by Asha-Hemant Kumar.”The songs are confused and mixed up with “”Yehudi ki ladki”(1957). To add to the confusion, there was a film with similar name i.e. “Yahudi ki Ladki” in 1933 too.
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“Fifty Fifty” (1956) was a Roopnagar production. It was directed by R L Malhotra. The movie had Om Prakash, N. Jaywant, Manmohan Krishna, Gope, Amar, Tuntun, Mumtaz, Sunder, Helen, M. Rajan, David Abraham, Lalita Kumari etc in it.
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Aa aaja o jaane wafaa
Posted on: September 8, 2012
Today (8 september) is the birthday of S Mohinder, a music director of yesteryears who gave us some wonderful songs in the golden era of Hindi movie music. Born in 1925, S Mohinder composed music in movies like “Sehra” (1948), “Jeewan Saathi” (1949), “Shrimatiji”(1952), “Bahaadur” (1953), “Paapi” (1955), “Naata”(1955), “Shehzaada” (1955), “Kaarwaan” (1956), “Shirin Farhad” (1956), “Mehlon Ke Khwaab” (1960), “Picnic” (1966) etc. He is one of those music directors who were criminally underutilised by the Hindi movie music industry.
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Aaja re aajaa na sata re piya
Posted on: August 23, 2012
“Chhoomantar” (1956) was a Sadiq Production movie. It was produced and directed by M Sadiq. The movie had Shyama, Karan Dewan, Jagirdar, S. Banerjee, Raj Mehra, Amar, Anita Guha, Johnny Walker etc in it.
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Chamka ban kar aman ka taara
Posted on: August 15, 2012
On the occasion of India’s 65th Independence day today (15 august 2012), here is a song from “Ek Hi Raasta” (1956). This song is a patriotic song enacted on the stage by Meena Kumari and several kids.
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Today (13 august) is the birthday of Vyjyanti Mala. So we in this blog, as is our practice, discuss a few songs featuring Vyjyanti Mala on this occasion.
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