Posts Tagged ‘1956’
Chali gori pee ke milan ko chali
Posted on: January 31, 2009
I have listened to this song many a times. I was aware that the song is sung by Hemant Kumar, but that is all I knew.
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Rasik balma dil kyun lagaaya
Posted on: January 22, 2009
“Chori Chori” was a movie that is still remembered for its music. This was a rare movie where Manna Dey had sung the songs picturised on Raj Kapoor and those songs had become very popular.
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This “Chori Chori” sung is an ultimate “Chaayageet” song, full with words like “raat”, “chaand”, “fizaa” etc. And this is a movie of Raj Kapoor-Nargis era too.
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Ye waada karo chaand ke saamne
Posted on: December 30, 2008
From the name, the movie “Raajhath” appears a historical/ mythological fare. The movie had Pradeep Kumar and Madhubala in lead roles.
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In movies, we often have musical showdowns, where two singers are pitted against each other.
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Here is yet another popular song out of seemingly endless number of such songs from the movie “Basant Bahaar”.
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I have discovered another nice song. And like many such discoveries, this song too came to my notice thanks to the farmaish of Raja.
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While watching very old movies, one big attraction for me is to watch how places looked like in those days. It is especially for this reason that I watch movies of 1950s and earlier.
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Sur naa saje kya gaaun main
Posted on: December 5, 2008
“Basant Bahar” is a movie that was based on the subject of music itself, like “Baiju Baawra” before it. As can be expected, such movies were full of songs. And all these songs have easily become immortal. There are so many such songs in each of these movies hat one is just amazed. And one thinks about it, all these songs were composed more than half a century earlier. This is what is called longevity. And these songs will not get forgotten anytime soon.
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Arre bhai nikal ke aa ghar se
Posted on: October 17, 2008
Kishore Kumar as an actor-cum Singer had started to figure in movies in 1950s. In many movies, he was even the hero.
New Delhi (1956) was one such movie. One thing that I epecially find appealing is the fact that one gets to see about Delhi of 1950s in this movie, and that Delhi is so different from the present day Delhi that we know.
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