Posts Tagged ‘1956’
“Heer” (1956) was a Filmistan Production. It was directed by Hamid Dutt (?) and the starcast included names viz Pradeep Kumar, Nutan, Ulhas, Darpan, S. L. Puri, Randhir, Krishna Kumari, Zohra Sehgal, Chaman Puri, Mubarak, Murad, Rashid Khan, Lalita Pawar, Shakuntala etc.
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Ye khushi ka samaa
Posted on: February 24, 2012
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Talat Mehmood ( 24-02-1924 – 09-05-1998) and the song ‘ tasveer teri dil mera behalaa naa sakegi’ are synonymous. I was under the impression that this song was from a film. But after getting hold of a 78 rpm record ( N.16767) of this song in early 70s, I realised that it was a non-filmy song. I came to know much later that this was one of the top selling gramophone records issued in early 40s and this song brought Talat Mehmood to the limelight as a singer in Hindi film industry.
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Bhool jaa ae dil
Posted on: February 17, 2012
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie songs and a regular contributor to this blog.
I find that there are 18 songs listed under ‘Song excluded from movie’ category in this blog. Although the sample is not representative one to come to a definite conclusion, it is interesting to note that O P Nayyar leads in this category with 5 songs followed by Madan Mohan(4 songs), S D Burman (3 songs) and Naushad(2 songs). Sajjad Hussain, Husnalal Bhagatram, Bulo C Rani and Roshan have one song each in this category.
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Wo dekhen to unki inaayat
Posted on: February 15, 2012
- In: Asha Bhonsle songs | Boat song | Dev Anand songs | Dev Anand songs by Kishore Kumar | Duet | expression of love | Feelings of heart | Guest posts | Kishore Kumar songs | Kishore Kumar-Asha Bhonsle duet | Post by Sadanand Kamath | Songs of 1950s (1951 to 1960) | Songs of 1956 | Yearwise breakup of songs
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This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
In my younger days, the name of the film FUNTOOSH (1956) sounded to me a bit bizarre. I had also heard people using this Hinglish lingo as adjectives in different context. I had no occasion to watch this movie but judging (or misjudging) from the name of the film, I thought that it was a comedy movie and the song ‘ye meri topi palat ke aah’ was a pointer to that. It was only later when I heard ‘dukhi man mere’ I felt that the film was of a different genre.
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Raat hai nikhhri huyi
Posted on: February 10, 2012
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
I just stumbled upon a beautiful duet ‘raat hai nikhri huyi’ sung by Krishna Goyal and Geeta Dutt from the film MALLIKAA (1956) under the music direction of the great Hansraj Bahl. Tanveer Naqvi is the lyricist.
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This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Kavi Pradeep, the famous poet and lyricist, has been a well known figure both in the film industry and in the field of Hindi literature. He is one of the few poets who have sung their own writings in the films. Going by the numbers, probably Pradeep ji is a leader in this category of lyricist-singer. He has a fairly large number of songs to his credit, that he has sung himself.
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Usey mil gayi nayi zindagi
Posted on: February 1, 2012
I have discussed as many as five songs from “Halaaku”(1956) in the past. But this movie, like most movies of the golden era of Hindi movie music have many more songs that that in them.
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“Qaidi” (1957) is an Eagle Films production. It was directed by Mohammed Hussain and the star cast included names like Padmini, Suresh, Agha, Anwar, Kumar, Kamal, Helen, Johnny Walker, Ragini etc.
This by now forgotten movie has songs that have also become forgotten with time. But the songs are nice to listen to.
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Dil jawaan hai aarzoo jawaan
Posted on: January 6, 2012
- In: Asha Bhonsle songs | Duet | Feelings of heart | Guest posts | Multiple version song | Post by Sadanand Kamath | Song based on Western music | Songs of 1950s (1951 to 1960) | Songs of 1956 | Talat Mehmood Asha Bhonsle duet | Talat Mehmood solo | Talat Mehmood songs | Yearwise breakup of songs
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This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
January 6th is the death anniversary of Jaidev Verma, known as Jaidev in Hindi film world. He was one of those unlucky music directors who, despite being extremely talented, did not make it to the top in Bollywood. He had given hit songs in Hum Dono (1961), Kinaare Kinaare (1963), Mujhe Jeene Do (1963), Reshma Aur Shera (1972) , Gaman (1979) and many more. He is the only music director who won National Award for best music direction three times for Hindi films – Reshma Aur Sehra, Gaman and Ankahee.
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“Khul Ja Sim Sim” (1956) is a B grade movie which was a Golden Films presentation. Produced by Mulkraj Bhakri,it was directed by Nanubhai Vakil and the star cast included names like Mahipal, Shakila, Maruti, Heeralal, Helen, Niranjan Sharma, Krishna Kumari, Naazi, Sadiq, Vijaya Kumari etc.
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