Posts Tagged ‘1956’
Lelo sone ka laddoo
Posted on: January 30, 2011
He is a song that I heard for the first time only recently. This song is from a movie called “Paisa Hi Paisa” (1956) and this movie too is unfamiliar to me.
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Thandi thandi saawan ki phuhaar
Posted on: January 29, 2011
When one mentions “Jaagte Raho”(1956) the one song that readily comes to mind is the song Zindagi khwaab hai. This movie had other nice songs in it too, such as the song Jaago Mohan pyaare jaago.
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From the song, it is often possible to guess the music director. But not always. there have been cases where a song, sounding like O P Nayyar’s song may turn out to be Madan Mohan’s.
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Kare na jo bandon se pyaar
Posted on: January 23, 2011
There have been several Hindi movies called “Bandhan”. The oldest such movie was “Bandhan” (1938) which had music by Saraswati Devi. Then there was a Rajesh Khanna starrer “Bandhan” (1969) that had music by Kalyanji Anandji.
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“Heer” (1956) is a by now forgotten movie. This movie had Pradeep Kumar and Nutan in lead roles.
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Johny Walker was perhaps the first non Hero who began to have songs picturised on him on a regular basis. Many of these songs became very popular.
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Ye mehfil sitaaron ki
Posted on: January 19, 2011
“Arab Ka Saudaagar” (1956) , by now a forgotten movie had Pradeep Kumar,Smriti Biswas,Shashikala,Sundar ,S D Narang etc in it, with S D Narang being the director of this movie as well.
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In Hindi movies, we have several songs that allude to Lord Krishna and his baansuri (flute). I wonder why I did not have a category for such songs. Indeed there are so many songs of this category that I should have thought of it. Now I have finally opened a “Baansuri” category and hopefully this will cover most songs of this genre.
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Though few people today talk of this movie, “Durgesh Nandini” (1956) was a well known movie even in 1970s when I was growing up in the sense that I used to read about this movie in magazines.
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I have no idea if chana jor, moongphali etc are still sold today on street by vendors. Personally I have not seen such vendors for the past few decades, so chances are, such vendors are on the verge of extinction, if not already extinct.
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