Posts Tagged ‘1956’
Ae chaand kal jo aanaa
Posted on: April 14, 2011
“Devtaa” (1956) is a movie that was one of the earlier Hindi movies produced by a South Indian Production house. The lead actors of this movie were South Indians too. Gemini Ganeshan, Anjali Devi and Vyjyanti Mala had played the lead roles in this movie.
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O jee o hamen aaj koi na chhediyo
Posted on: March 5, 2011
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
With this post I am requesting Atul ji to add a new and peculiar category to this blog. This is a song sung on a ‘thhelaa’; and as far as I can recall, this is the only ‘thhelaa’ song in Hindi movies.
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Bhool jaa sapne suhaane bhool jaa
Posted on: March 4, 2011
I find that today I am discussing obscure songs from obscure movies that few people may be aware of. Here is another such song.
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Singer Mukesh, who had become a playback singer by early 1950s was trying to make it big as an actor-singer a la K L Saigal in 1950s. So much so that he began to produce his own movies in which he acted as hero and sang his own songs. But his ventures into movie making ended up in disaster as he not only lost money and ended up on the verge of bankruptcy, his career as a playback singer too almost came to an end because he stopped getting singing assignments from outside movies.
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“Anuraag” (1956) was a movie produced by Mukesh, who those days was toying with the idea of becoming an Actor-Singer and was producing movies as well.
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Baawli banaa ke chhodaa
Posted on: February 4, 2011
I have discussed three songs from “Parivaar” (1956) in the past, and these three songs were nice songs of different genre. Here is another song from this movie belonging to yet another genre/category.
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As music lovers, most of us only get to listen to well known songs. If one wants to listen to songs that were forgotten, one needs to dig deep and search for them. During this search, one often comes across some gems.
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Mythological/historical Lovers of the yore, viz Heer-Ranjha, Laila Majnu, Sohni Mahiwaal etc have inspired Hindi movie makers to make several movies on their stories.
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Jhoom jhoom kar chali akeli
Posted on: January 30, 2011
“Taj”(1956) had virtually the same team as “Naagin” (1954). The makers of “Taj” (1956) obviously hoped to replicate the commercial success of “Naagin” 91954) by doing that. I am not sure how much of a commercial success “Taj” (1956) was. It was certainly nowhere close to “Naagin” (1954), that is for sure.
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Dil hai ye tera dil tu liye jaa
Posted on: January 30, 2011
I keep stumbling against rare and unheard of musical gems almost on a regular basis, and here is the gem of the day.
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