Posts Tagged ‘1957’
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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Ye hasrat thhi ki iss duniyaa mein
Posted on: March 18, 2012
“Nausherwan e Adil” (1957) was a Minerva Movietone presntation. It was produced and directed by Sohrab Modi. This movie had Raj Kumar, Mala Sinha, Sohrab Modi, Naseem, Bipin Gupta, Murad, Shammi, Amirbano etc in it.
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“Agra Road” (1957) is not a movie too many people remember today. This was a B grade movie which was a Nagina Films Presentation. It was directed by Ravindra Dave. the movie had Vijay Anand, Shakila, Nanda, Satish Vyas, Krishnakant, Dhumal, Bhagwan, Amarnath, Nazi etc in it.
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“Naya Daur” (1957) was a pathbreaking movie of its time. Like most pathbreaking movies, it had a storyline that was different and therefore a risky proposition at the box office.
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Itne bade jahaan mein
Posted on: March 5, 2012
“Kathputli” (1957) was a Srirangam Productions movie. It was directed by Amiya Chakravarty and Nitin Bose. The starcast of the movie had names like Vyjyantimala,Kamla Laxman, Balraj Sahni, Jawahar Kaul, Agha, Sheela Kashmiri, Poonam etc in it.
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Jaan sakey to jaan
Posted on: March 5, 2012
During 1950s and 1960s, there used to be quite a few movies with the word “ustaad” in them. This blog have had songs from movies viz “Do Ustaad” (1959), “Ustaadon Ke Ustaad” (1963), “Ustaad 420” (1963), “Ham Sab Ustaad Hain” (1965),”Sab Ka Ustaad” (1967) etc but the movie with the defining word in them, viz “Ustaad” was not among them.
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This song is one that I thought I had already discussed in the blog. The first time I became aware of O P Nayyar was in mid 1970s, when I read about him in a Hindi magazine (Dharmyug,perhaps, where it was mentioned that he made a successful career for himself without using Lata Mangewshkar’s voice even once). This got by curiosity roused. I found out that “Naya Daur” (1957) was a breakthrough movie for him as well as for many others associated with the movie. Ao I became aware of all the songs of this movie. One can see the lyrics of several songs from this movie noted down in a a diary where I used to note down the lyrics of songs that I liked those days. One can say that my diary showed which songs I liked in 1970s. And I liked the songs of “Naya Daur” (1957).
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“Mohini” (1957) was a Navkala Niketan movie. It was directed by Raman B Desai. Starcast of the movie had names like Shahu Modak, Nirupa Roy, Krishna Kumari, Madan Puri, Roop Kumar, Shakila etc in it.
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