Posts Tagged ‘1960’
Here is a nice car song from “Shrimaan Satyawaadi” (1960). Unlike most car songs, where there is either one or two persons, here there are three persons in the car.
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Ae kaash chalte mil ke
Posted on: September 17, 2009
Just the other day, I posted a song from “Manzil” (1960) where Hemant Kumar had sung a song for Dev Anand.
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I found Greta (Memsaab) discussing some sharaabi songs in her blog and that set me thinking. Obviously there must be a large number of such songs, and I too have posted many such songs in this blog. But there must be countless more.
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Rut albeli mast samaan
Posted on: September 16, 2009
When one watches old Bollywood songs, one can often see things that then existed at that time. For instance, watching the Bombay of old Bollywood movies give us a glimpse of that city as it then was.
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I thought that Shammi Kapoor and Vyjyantimala acted together for the first time only towards the fag end of their careers, viz in late 1960s, but now I find that they had acted together in their heydays as well. Yes, they acted together in “College Girl” (1960).
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Asha Parekh made her debut in late 1950s. Ghoonghat (1960) was one of her earlier movies.
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I have posted several songs from “Kaala Bazaar” (1960), and they are all wonderful songs. Here is another song in the same league from this movie.
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Here is a song from a movie called “Basant” (1960). It is a typical O P Nayyar song with his characteristic music. Asha Bhonsle sings this song. It is picturised on Nutan and another lady whom I am unable to identify. Both of course share the voice of Asha Bhonsle, when it comes to lip syncing this song.
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Salim and Anarkali have been a favourite topic of Bollywood movies in 1950s and 1960s. In 1950s, there was in fact a movie called “Anarkali” (1953) which was a musical blockbuster. It had Pradeep Kumar and Bina Rai in the roles of Salim and Anarkali respectively. In 1960, “Mughal e Azam” was produced, where Dilip Kumar and Madhubala played these roles. This movie was just as big a musical blockbuster as “Anarkali” (1953).
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Arre haan dildaar
Posted on: August 26, 2009
“Bewaqoof” (1960), as the name suggests, was a comedy movie which unfortunately has been forgotten with time. This movie had Kishore Kumar and I S Johar as lead actors cum comedians. Mala Sinha was also there in this movie.
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