Posts Tagged ‘Dattaram’
Maalik tere jahaan mein
Posted on: August 30, 2011
“Ab Dilli Door Nahin” (1957) is a moving tale about orphan kids. The movie and its songs are in fact so poignantly picturised that I cannot bear to watch the movie. For that matter, I can rarely bear the watch the picturisation of a few songs too.
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Ye chaman hamaaraa apna hai
Posted on: August 15, 2011
India is celebrating her independence day today. This independence is a result of great struggle and sacrifice, and it is upto the young generation to keep the national flag high and take the nation forward in its quest for progress.
Here is a patriotic song from “Ab Dilli Door Nahin” (1957) that exhorts kids to feel proud of their nation which belongs to them and who will have to shoulder the responsibility of the nation in future.
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Beliyaa beliyaa beliyaa beliyaa
Posted on: July 23, 2011
I came across this song a few hours ago. And I wondered where this song was hiding all these days from my view.
This is a nice club/part dance song from “Parvarish” (1958). The song is sung by Lata and Manna Dey. Hasrat Jaipuri is the lyricist and the delightful music is composed by Dattaram.
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Kehti hai jhuki jhuki nazar
Posted on: July 22, 2011
I have listened to this song in the past, but I was not aware of any details of this song and that included the details about the singer too.
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Kyun udaa jaataa hai aanchal
Posted on: March 16, 2011
My regular readers may have noticed that I have been discussing quite a few Suman Kalyanpur songs these days. And indeed, I am doing this deliberately. She was nearing a milestone in this blog and I wanted her to reach there quickly.
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Meena Kumari is typed cast as a tragedy queen in the minds of many movie watchers, but that is not entirely correct. For the first decade of her career, she played happy roles and it was only in the second decade of her career (viz 1960s) that she began to work in the tragedy roles.
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Patli qamar tirchhi nazar
Posted on: March 9, 2011
“Choron Ka chor” (1970) was a B grade movie starring Dara Singh,Shabnam,Madan Puri,Agha,Bhagwan, Roopesh Kumar etc.
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Sun re sun albele
Posted on: December 17, 2010
Hindi Tarzan movies typically had Dara Singh playing the role of Tarzan, with Mumtaz playing his love interest. Here, in this movie called “Tarzan Comes To Delhi” (1965), Mumtaz decided to bring Tarzan in contact with civilisation. Here she takes Tarzan and his diminutive assistant Bhagwan to a hotel.
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Ye din din hain khushi ke
Posted on: November 30, 2010
“Jab se Tumhe Dekha Hai” (1963) is a lesser known movie from the past. It had Pradeep Kumar and Geeta Bali in lead roles. As was the case with most movies of those days, the songs of this movie too are nice to listen to.
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