Posts Tagged ‘Nimmi’
Khaamosh kyun ho taaron
Posted on: July 14, 2010
Recently I stumbled upon the songs of “Alif Laila” (1953) and found that this songs were wonderful to listen to.
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“Udan Khatola” (1955) is a movie that had some nice songs in it. As many as three songs from this movie had figured in the list of top 16 songs of the year 1955 in the Binaca geetmala annual list of 1955.
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Ek baat kahoon mere piyaa
Posted on: December 11, 2009
I have come to to the realisation by now that most old Bollywood movies were musical blockbusters by default. It meant that each of these movies had several nice songs contained in them.
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Dar laage duniyaa se balmaa ho
Posted on: November 13, 2009
It may be difficult to imagine today, but villains like Premnath and Ajit started their filmy careers as heroes in late 1940s-early 1950s, and they in fact acted as heroes for almost a decade before becoming villains. As far as Premnath was concerned, he was a hero in A grade movies too.
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Aaja aaja tera intezaar hai
Posted on: November 7, 2009
I have posted a couple of songs from “Sazaa” (1951) already, but even I was not aware of this song.
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Dil ka diyaa jalaa ke gayaa
Posted on: October 8, 2009
Wow! What a sweet melodious song. I may have heard this song ealier, but only in passing and without paying close attention. This time, I listened to this song attentively and then wondered if this has to be one of the sweetest songs sung by Lata. If there are sweeeter songs still, I will definitely like to listen to them too.
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While listeneing to the songs of old movies, we often praise the singer and/ or the music director, but many of us tend to underestimate the contribution of the lyricist. However great a tune, or however wonderful a voice may be, unless the singer gets a good well written song, it is not very likely that the song is going to catch the imagination of the public.
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I thought that Suraiyya’s career as an actor-singer was over in 1950s, but it seems that a few of her movies were released in 1960s as well.
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Ritu aaye ritu jaaye sakhi ri
Posted on: September 22, 2009
When Bollywood movie music was in its early decades, it was carefully nursed and nurtured by some of the finest musical talents available. Most of the music dirrectors in the industry at that time had solid grooming in classical music. They were quality conscious while creating their music, and they were quite innovative and imaginative too.
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Tere sab gham mile mujhko
Posted on: September 21, 2009
I was not aware of this movie called “Hamdard” (1953). Now I have some information about this movie. “Hamdard” (1953) starred Nimmi, Shekhar and Smriti Biswas, and from the songs, the story appears a love triangle involving the abovementioned three actors.
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