Posts Tagged ‘Meena Kumari’
When I was a kid growing up in Eastern part of India, Durga Puja used to be the biggest festival of the year there, lasting four days. And every evening, the Durga Puja organisers would organise a cultural programme where the locals were encouraged to participate.
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“Sahaara” (1958) was one of the first (if not the first) movie where Meena Kumari took her first steps toward tragedy roles. In this movie, she plays a blind woman, though her character appears quite positive in this movie, based on the picturisation of songs on her in this movie.
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I have mentioned it on several occasions that music director Ravi has composed the most number of iconic songs among all the music directors. You name the ocassion or the theme, and chances are , one can name a few iconic songs for the ocassion composed by Ravi.
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This song from “Kohinoor”(1960) is an ultimate “Chhaayaageet” song which is my way of saying that this romantic song is ideal for listening to at late night. And indeed many listeners may have listened to this song in the late night “Vividh Bharati” programme of this name.
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Taana der na taani tum
Posted on: August 8, 2010
“Pyaar Ka Saagar” (1961) was a Filrays Production. It was directed by Devendra Goel. The movie had Rajendra Kumar, Meena Kumari, Madan Puri, O. P. Ralhan, Leela Misra, Jagdish Raaj, Moha Choti, S. K. Prem etc in it.
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Koi pyaar ki dekhe jaadugari
Posted on: August 7, 2010
I was recently informed by Lalitha that many “Kohinoor” (1960) songs are missing from the blog. In fact, many songs from many movies are missing, if you think about that. 😀
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Mujhe pyaar ki zindagi dene waale
Posted on: August 4, 2010
I was not aware of this movie called “Pyaar Kaa Saagar” (1961). It turns out that this movie had Rajendra Kumar and Meena Kumari in lead roles.
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Meena Kumari who played happy roles in 1950s began to play tragic roles in 1960s. And that obviously included singing sad songs as well.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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