Posts Tagged ‘1957’
Ghar ki raani hoon jee
Posted on: May 2, 2011
It is a coincidence that the movies whose songs I am discussing today bear the same name as that of later day movies that I am more familiar with. Thus I discussed a song of “Heer Ranjha” (1948) and then “Sangam” (1954) while most people are more familiar with these movies of later vintage, viz “Heer Ranjha” (1970) and “Sangam” (1964) respectively. Likewise, when one talks of “Abhimaan”, the name of 1973 movie may come to the minds of most, including myself. But there was another movie of the same name that was produced in 1957.
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Ho umad ghumad kar aayee re ghataa
Posted on: April 9, 2011
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie songs and a regular contributor to this blog.
Our country is a land of villages, and it lives in the hearts of the farmers of this land. There is an immeasurable bond that we Indians have with the mitti (soil) of this land; that which cares for us and provides for all our needs.
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Main gaaun tu chup ho jaa
Posted on: April 8, 2011
Though I am familiar with V Shantaram’s movie “Do Aankhen Baarah Haath” (1957), I have not watched this movie and I am not aware of all its songs, except the better known songs. I was not aware of this song.
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I stumbled upon this rare song just now. This song is from a movie called “Jaasoos” (1957) which apparently never got released, though a few of its songs were recorded.
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Aaj bhari mehfil mein ae dil
Posted on: March 18, 2011
“Jalti Nishaani” (1957) is a forgotten movie by now. This movie had Kamal Kapoor, Geeta Bali, Kuldeep Kaur, Sundar, Ulhaas, Chaman Puri etc.
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Chain nahin aaye kahaan dil jaaye
Posted on: March 3, 2011
Lyrics of this song have been provided by Atif M, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie songs and a new visitor of this blog.
“Samundar” (1957) is movie that I knew nothing about till two years ago. Now I know this movie for its songs. I have already discussed two songs from this movie.
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Though I am aware of most songs from “Mother India” (1957), I was just not aware about this song from the movie. In fact, I was not aware that Manna Dey had sung a song in this movie.
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Ae meri maut thahar
Posted on: February 16, 2011
I am not much familiar with this movie called “Paayal” (1957) even though I have already discussed two songs from this movie in the past. This movie had Sunil Dutt and Padmini in lead roles.
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Zindagi bhar japab tohaar naam
Posted on: February 16, 2011
“Champaakali” (1957) is a movie starring Bharat Bhushan, Suchitra Sen, Shubha Khote etc. This movie is known for some Hemant Kumar songs including the well known song Chhup gaya koyi re door se pukaar ke. I have in fact discussed as many as three songs from this movie in the past.
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Ulajh gaye do nainaa dekho
Posted on: February 8, 2011
Romantic songs/love songs are one of the most common form of songs in Hindi movies. It can be seen that many of these songs use high sounding grandiose words, whose meanings often escape the common listeners.
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