Posts Tagged ‘1957’
Today(25th may) happens to be the seventh death anniversary of Sunil Dutt (6 june 1929-25 may 2005). Born Balraj Dutt, Sunil Dutt was one of the earliest Radio Ceylon announcers before he got his break in Hindi movies in “Railway Platform” (1955).
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“Khuda Ka Banda”(1957) was a Chitrabharati Production. It was directed by Chaturbhuj Doshi. The movie had Chandrashekhar, Tiwari, Krishna Kumari, Gope, Kanhaiyalal etc in it.
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Falak bola zameen boli
Posted on: April 30, 2012
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Earlier today, in another post I had mulled over the decline of films with mythological themes. Extending that concern further, I would also include the theme of Muslim religious and social films, which seem to be on the decline. Once again, in the 90s and later, I cannot really recall any significant film based on Islamic social and religious values.
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“Chamak Chandni” (1957) is an extremely obscure movie by now. This movie was a Chitra Bharati Limited production. Chimanlala Trivedi was the producer and the movie was directed by Manibhai Vyas. The movie had Mahipal, Shaikla, Tiwari, Chandrashekhar, Maruti, Niranjan Sharma, Helen, Purnima etc in it.
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In Hindi movies of the golden era, there was this common enough situation where the lead pair would carry out their romantic pursuits silently without even talking, and obviously without even singing a song. So what would happen in such circumstances ? Very conveniently, a two to three persons troupe would appear on the road (one carrying a harmonium- compulsory, other carrying a dholak-optional, but desirable, and a female dancer- highly desirable, but often optional)and they would sing a song, and the words of the songs would express the feelings of the shy duo.
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Mera jala raat bhar diyaa
Posted on: April 22, 2012
“Chamak Chaandni” (1957) is not a movie too many people may be aware of. This obscure movie was a Chitra Bharati Limited production. It was produced by Chimanlal Trivedi and directed by Mani Bhai Vyas. The starcast reads like a B grade movies who is who, viz. Mahipal, Shakila, Tiwari, Chandrashekhar,Maruti, Niranjan Sharma, Helen, Purnima etc.
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Reshmi salwaar kurta jaali kaa
Posted on: April 7, 2012
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Here is one more song of the popular unofficial genre viz “how come this song was not posted earlier” 🙂 . During my younger days I was only into listening current songs and any song created before 1968 was old song for me. then one fine day in mid 1970s I decided to become mature, viz. become interested in old songs. It was then that I learnt about O P Nayyar. The fact that he made his career without using the voice of Lata voice impressed me a lot. Then I heard O P Nayyar compositions from movies like “CID”(1956), “Naya Daur”(1957) etc.
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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.
I was not aware of the film MERA SALAAM (1957) until few days back when I came across while searching for some songs on a website. This was a period film produced under the banner of Sushil Pictures and directed by Harbans. Bharat Bhushan and Bina Rai were in the lead roles with Veena, K N Singh, Gope, Durga Khote, Nishi, Cuckoo in supporting roles. The film had some lovely songs which were written by Sheven Rizvi and set to music by Hafeez Khan. Some of the song’s orchestration appear to be somewhat different than what is normally heard in the songs of that period. For example, the song ‘husn kehte hain mujhe’ probably depicting a mushaira competition between Bharat Bhushan and Bina Rai is rendered without the use of any musical instrument. Then, it has a nasheed ( Islamic devotional song) ‘madinewale se mera salam keh dena’ sung by Mohammed Rafi, Bande Hasan and others, the composition of which, in my view comes close to the qawwali style.
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“Maai Baap” (1957) was a Sadiq Production movie. It was produced and directed by M Sadiq. Starcast of the movie included names viz Shyama, Balraj Sahni, Minoo Mumtaz, Nazir Hussain, Raj Mehra, S. N. Banerjee, Johnny Walker etc.
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