Posts Tagged ‘1959’
Intazaar aur abhi aur abhi aur abhi
Posted on: July 5, 2009
Meena Kumari debuted in early 1950 and played happy roles most of the time. Many of these movies are lovely family entertainers where she would typically act with Kishore Kumar, Sunil Dutt, Daisy Irani etc.
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I was aware of one song from “Bank Manager” (1959) which I had posted in the past. Now I see that other songs from this movie are also available.
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Jiska joota usi ka sar
Posted on: July 3, 2009
Here is a fun song which I recall hearing a few times in distant past, but without having any indepth knowledge about the song.
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When I select songs to be posted in a day, I ensure that they are of different moods, genres etc. And indeed this song is of a different mood from the other two. But I am surprised to know that all the three songs that I have posted so far have their music directors and lyricists in common. Madan Mohan is the music director and Rajinder Krishan is the lyricist in all these three songs.
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Beta dar mat dar mat dar mat
Posted on: June 30, 2009
I have found an absolute gem of a song just now. It is from “Bhai Bahan” (1959).
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Ajab hai daastaan teri ae zindagi
Posted on: June 26, 2009
When one watches Kishore Kumar on screen, one expects him to sing in his own voice. But there are some rare cases where Kishore KUmar, like normal heroes, has sung in the voices of other playback singers.
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Dil se main mujhse dil takraa gayaa
Posted on: June 23, 2009
This song is a rare song which few people may have listened to. This song is sung by Asha Bhonsle and it is picturised on Shyama. This song is from a forgotten movie called “Bus Conductor” (1959) and Premnath was the hero in this movie.
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I have listened to this song in the past, but I was not aware which movie this song was from. This song, which is a party song and was picturised to welcome the then new year of 1959, is from “Anaadi” (1959).
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Baat chalat nayi chunari rang daari
Posted on: June 1, 2009
In 1950s, we had a few movies which showed musical showdown by two musicians. Both of them would contest against each other trying to score musical brownie points, before the hero ( singing in the voice of a mainstream singer) would be adjusted to have won against the lesser actor ( singing in the voice of a classical singer).
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Chaand sa mukhdaa kyun sharmaaya
Posted on: May 26, 2009
I was not aware that Sunil Dutt and Madhubala had ever worked together. Now I have come to realise that the two worked together in “Insaan Jaag Uthaa (1959).
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