Posts Tagged ‘1959’
Mohan ki baansuriyaa
Posted on: October 14, 2009
Here is a rare song. Needless to say that I was totally unaware about the existence of this song and indeed about this movie.
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When you need to look for iconic songs on any topic, you should look for songs composed by Ravi. I have noticed that majority of iconic Bollywood songs, whatever be their topics, have been composed by Ravi.
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Kaase kahoon man ki baat
Posted on: October 3, 2009
Here is a lovely semi classical song and dance performance from “Dhool ka phool” (1959). This movie which starred Rajendra Kumar and Mala Sinha had some nice songs i it.
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“Paighaam” (1959) is a movie starring Dilip Kumar and Vyjyantimala. This movie, like most movies of that era, had some nice songs in it.
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“Qaidi no 911” (1959) was a “B grade” movie in the sense that it was an action thriller and it had Sheikh Mukhtar as action hero. When I say it was a B grade movie, I mean no disrespect. In fact, I think movies like this with Sheikh Mukhtar as hero were as good as the A grade action movies of 1970s. Yes, action movies had begun to be regarded as A grade by 1970s.
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Raahi mil gaye raahon mein
Posted on: September 15, 2009
“Dil Deke Dekho” (1959) was one of the earlier Shammi Kapoor movies where Shammi Kapoor was seen with his tradmark mannerisms.
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“Kyaa ye Bombay hai ?” (1959) is as obscure a movie as any. This C grade movie had Maruti and Nishi in lead roles.
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Kaun ye aaya mehfil mein
Posted on: September 14, 2009
This song is neither written by Hasrat Jaipuri nor composed by Shankar Jaikishan. But this song sounds like a Shammi Kapoor song, and it looks like a Shammi Kapoor song, because other ingredients are very much there. Rafi is the singer, Asha Parekh is there, and most important of them all, Shammi Kapoor himself is there in this song.
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“Kavi Kalidas” (1959) was a movie that was not a mainstream movie, rather the so called B grade movie. These were low budget movies whose subjects were often mythology . This particular movie, as its name suggests was the tale of the great Sanskrit poet Kalidas.
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“Mohar” (1959) was a movie starring Shammi Kapoor and Geeta Bali, but not much is known about this movie today. This movie has flopped badly at the box office. And as luck would have it, Madan Mohan was the music director of this movie. Seeing his movie bomb at the box office was a fate that Madan Mohan suffered in most of the 92 movies in which he gave music.
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