Posts Tagged ‘1959’
Unpar kaun kare jee vishwaas
Posted on: April 12, 2011
The usual love stories constituted the bulk of storyline in mainstream Hindi movies of the past. The fact that history and mythology provided such rich sources of stories that could be used was not given much thought by mainstream movie makers. It was left to movie makers of smaller resources (makers of B grade movies) to make movies on such topics that were regarded as risky and unviable by mainstream movie makers.
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“Jaageer” (1959) is an obscure movie which had Premnath, Ulhas, Meena Kumari, Kuldeep Kaur etc in it.
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These days I have been discussing the songs of “Navrang” (1959). I have so far discussed as many as five songs from this movie.
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Tum sainyya gulaab ke phool
Posted on: April 10, 2011
Here is a cute and lovely song that I was not aware of till a few hours ago.
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Main yahaan tu kahaan
Posted on: April 9, 2011
It may be difficult to imagine today but actors like Ashok Kumar and Nirupa Roy used to act in lead roles five decades ago, before they began to play roles of parents. In fact, the two of them were paired opposite each other in lead roles in many movies of late 1950s.
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This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie songs and a regular contributor to this blog.
Here is another very wonderful duet dance, also a mujra, from the movie Guest House (1959).
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“Navrang” (1959) is a song that is well known for its songs. I have discussed three songs from this movie in the past. Here is another song from this movie. I was not aware of this till a few hours ago.
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Ab kahaan jaayen ham
Posted on: April 7, 2011
This article is written by Raja, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor of articles to this blog.
There are some songs that are close to my heart because of some association I have with them from my schooldays. Whenever I listen to them even today, memories of those days get triggered.
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Nainaa hain jaadoo bhare
Posted on: April 2, 2011
“Bedard Zamaanaa Kyaa Jaane” (1959) was a B grade movie starring Ashok Kumar, Nirupa Roy,Sudesh Kumar, Jabeen Jaleel etc. This movie is quite significant from music point of view. It was with this movie that Kalyanji Veerji Shah made his debut as an independent music director. Till then, he was assisting to other senior music directors viz Hemant Kumar etc. After another movie (Madaari), Kalyanji was joined by his younger brother Anandji and they formed the by now legendary musical partnership known as Kalyanji Anandji.
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“Saawan” (1959) is a by now forgotten movie. This movie had Bharat Bhushan and Ameeta in lead roles.
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