Posts Tagged ‘Madhubala’
Unse pyaar ho gaya
Posted on: April 22, 2009
Long long ago, many later year villains were regarded as Hero stuff and they were acting as heroes in Bollywood movies. Ajit was one such actor and Premnath was another.
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Do ghadi wo jo paas aa baithe
Posted on: April 19, 2009
In 1950s, there used to be movies named after important landmarks viz “Laal Quila’,”Chandni Chowk”etc. In this series, there was one movie called “Gateway of India” (1957).
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Koi hamdam na raha
Posted on: April 17, 2009
Kishore Kumar, who was mainly known for acting in funny roles tended to make serious movies when he himself made movies ( “Chalti ka naa gaadi” being an exception).
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Kismat mein khushi ka naaam nahin
Posted on: April 10, 2009
Sajjad Hussain, arguably the most original and most creative music director of an era brimming with great music directors, was also a person who was not tactful enough to deal with musically illiterate producers and tended to call a spade a shovel. It was this outspokenness that ensured that he got much less number of assignments than his talent merited.
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Chale bhi aao kasam tumhen
Posted on: April 9, 2009
Music director Ravi, who made his debut as an independent music director in 1955, began to churn out nice music immediately. Here is a nice song from a 1957 movie called “Ek Saal”.
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Aigo aigo aigo ye kya ho gaya
Posted on: April 3, 2009
Here is a fun song from “Boyfriend” (1961) that I was intending to post for quite some time, but I was unable to do so earlier.
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Chanda chamke gagan mein
Posted on: April 2, 2009
“Bahut Din Huye” (1954) had as many as 16 songs composed by two music directors. B S Kalla (14 songs) got the lion’s share whereas two songs were composed by E S Shastry.
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Kyun chameli khilkhilaati hai bataa
Posted on: April 1, 2009
This movie called “Bahut Din Huye” (1954) had as many as 16 songs.14 were composed by B S Kalla and 2 by E Shastry. With so many songs in this movie, I wonder if there was any time left for normal dialogues in this movie. 😉
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Dil mein samaa gaye sajan
Posted on: March 31, 2009
I had never heard this song from “Sangdil”( 1952) before. Now I have, thanks to the farmaish by a new reader (Mr Sharma) of this blog.
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Paanch rupaiyya barah aana
Posted on: March 30, 2009
As funny songs go, this song is hard to beat.
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