Posts Tagged ‘Dattaram’
“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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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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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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Maataa O maataa jo tu aaj hoti
Posted on: September 8, 2009
In Bollywood movies, most sad songs are sung by grown ups. Typically a lady, who cannot meet her beloved sings a sad song, or a gent, thinking that his beloved is a “bewafa”, takes to singing a sad song.
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Raghuwar ke gun gaawen re ham
Posted on: September 7, 2009
“Ab Dilli Door Nahin” (1957) is remembered now a days for its immortal song “chun chun karti aayi chidiyaa, daal ka dana laayi chidiyaa”. From the songs of this movie, this movie apparently was a story of kids who are orphans and live in an orphanage.
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C grade Bollywood movies on 1950s and 1960s failed to get registered in the minds of mainstream audience, but these movies certainly had some audience and they must have been making enough money to stay in business.
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“Choron Ka Chor” (1970) was a C grade movie in which people like Roopesh Kumar and Jaishree T had played lead roles.
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Here is another archtypical Mukesh-Raj Kapoor song. It is from “Parvarish” (1958).
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Rajendra Kumar, known for copying Dilip Kumar’s mannerisms, was known as Jubilee Kumar, because almost all his movies tended to be jubilee hits. Those days,movies completing 25 weeks were called silver jubilee hits and movies completing 50 weeks were called golden jubilee hits. Almost every Rajendra Kumar movie was a jubilee hit.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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