Posts Tagged ‘1957’
Today (24th december) is Rafi’s birthday so today we are discussing songs sung by Rafi in this blog.
Here is a song from “Mirza Saahibaan”(1957). I notice that I have discussed as many as six songs from a movie of the same name that was released in 1947 and which starred Trilok Kapoor and Noorjahaan, but only one song from “Mirza Saahibaan” (1957) which starred Trilok Kapoor’s nephew, someone known as Shammi Kapoor 🙂 and Shyama.
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Haay tu hi gaya mohe bhool re
Posted on: December 22, 2011
“Kathputli” (1957) is a movie produced by Sreerangam Production.Amiya Chakravarty and Nitin Bose were the directors of this movie. The movie had Balraj Sahni, VYjyantimala, Kamla Laxman, Jawahar Kaul, Agha, Sheela Kashmiri, Poonam etc in this movie.
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Husn jawaan ishq jawaan
Posted on: December 20, 2011
In case of most movies, only a few songs become popular and other songs become forgotten with time. I have found that several of these forgotten songs are superb songs to listen to, and with some luck, they should have become popular songs, instead of ending up into the dustbin of obscurity.
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Jab raat nahin kat’ti
Posted on: December 18, 2011
“Changez Khan” (1957) was a B grade movie which was produced by N C Films. Kedar Kapoor was the director and the star cast included names like Premnath,Bina Rai,Helen, Johnny Walker, Tiwari, Sheikh Mukhtar, Jeevan, Leela Misra etc.
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“Mr X” (1957) is a movie which was a Sippy Films presentation and it was directed by Nanabhai Bhatt. The movie had Ashok Kumar, Nalini Jaiwant, Pran, Nishi, Rajen Kapoor, Leela Misra, Sheela Vaz, Amirbai Karnataki, Hari Shivdasani, Helen, Johnny Walker etc in it.
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1950s was the decade when it was the cherished dream of Indians to see their nation progress. And Hindi movies were not immune from this zeal for nation building. Many movies of that era had nation building as the underlying theme of the movie.
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Most people are aware of a movie called “Abhimaan” (1975) starring Amitabh Bachchan and Jaya Bhaduri. But there was another movie of the same name which was released in 1957.
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It was on 16th november 1917 that Chitragupta Srivastava was born in Bihar. He went to Bombay and earned fame as music director Chitragupta. He preferred to keep a low profile and was happy to compose for B grade movies, where he composed absolutely A grade music. A grade movie makers would have happily worked with Chitragupta if only Chitragupta had gone and met them. For instance, the first time that Chitragupta met with Raj Kapoor was in 1980s, when his music director sons Anand and Milind introduced him to raj Kapoor at a function. And Raj Kapoor told him that he would have definitely used him as a music director in his movies if only he had met him.
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Qismat ke khel niraaley
Posted on: November 16, 2011
“Talaash” (1957) was a Anand Films, Bombay production. It was directed by Vishram Bedekar. The star cast included names like Ashok Kumar, Bina Rai, Jagirdaar, Yaakoob, Ameeta, Raj Mehra, Jamal, Mridula, Radhika, Chaman Puri, Sushil Gupta, Eruch Tarapore, Shakuntala, Pal Sharma, Rajesh Sharma, Rajan Kapoor, Ramlal, Master Chhotu, Tiwari, Maqbool, Nazir Kashmiri, Heera Sawant etc in it, Mumtaz Ali etc.
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“Ham Panchchi Ek Daal Ke” (1957), as the title suggests was a movie stressing the fact that India represents unity in diversity. This movie was a children’s movie and the songs of this movie were picturisation on children.
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