Posts Tagged ‘1959’
In India, the three unifying things for Indians are Indian Railways, Bollywood movies and Cricket. We have had several rail related songs in Bollywood movies, but it is a great surprise that cricket related songs are conspicuous by their absence, even though cricket is as big a craze among Indians as movies, and it has become more so in the last few decades.
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Bada bedard jahaan hai
Posted on: August 31, 2009
In Bollywood movies, Maa often plays an important role. And there have been many such songs in movies sung by Maa.
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In Bollywood movie songs, it the the boy who wooes the girl and the girl takes exception. But what happens when it is the other way round ? When the girl starts wooing the boy, then the latter is very uncomfortable. And that was much more so half a century ago.
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Naa naa naa barso baadal
Posted on: August 28, 2009
Small time Bollywood movie producers tended to make movies of historical / mythologicals subjects in 1950s and 1960s. Most of these movies were C grade movies and the mainstream movie watchers kept away from them.
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“Love Marriage” (1959) was a movie that had some lovely songs. I have been posting the songs from this movie and I have enjoyed listening to these songs.
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Ye bhi hakka
Posted on: August 24, 2009
Kishore Kumar as hero and Pran as villain was a recipe for great fun throughout the movie. And “Jaalsaaz” (1959) was one such movie.
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Kahe jhoom jhoom raat ye suhaani
Posted on: August 23, 2009
“Love Marriage” (1959) was a movie starring Dev Anand and Mala Sinha. I have no idea how the movie fared at the box office, but the music of the movie is absolutely top class.
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In west , Valentine day is the day earmarked for love. In India, on the other hand, an entire season, viz the rainy season is earmarked for love.
And that affords plenty of opportunity for Bollywood movie makers to slip in a love song or two.
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Pyaar ka jahaan ho
Posted on: August 10, 2009
I have posted a few songs from “Jaalsaaz” (1959) in the past. Here is another nice song from this movie.
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Sajan sang kaahe nehaa lagaaye
Posted on: August 9, 2009
I have posted a few songs from “Main Nashe Me Hoon” (1959) in the past, but I was not aware about the existence of this song.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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