Posts Tagged ‘Rehana’
“Sargam” (1950) is a movie that has been forgotten with time. It was a Filmistan production. It was directed by P L Santoshi and the star cast had names like Rehana, Om Prakash, Mumtaz Ali, Paro, Ratan Kumar, Chandabai, Raj Kapoor, Rajendra, David Abraham, Tabassum, Radha Krishnan, Samson, Vijayalaxmi, Ramsingh, S. L. Puri, Sudesh etc in it.
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Dil ki kahaani kehna to chaahe
Posted on: January 7, 2012
“Sagaai”(1951) is a movie which had Premnath, Rehana, Yacoob, Gope, Vijaylaxmi, Hiralal etc in lead roles. I have discussed three songs from this movie in the past.
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“Dilruba”(1950) is a movie which was produced by Lotus Orient Films. It was directed by Dwarka Khosla. The star cast of the movie included names like Dev Anand, Rehana, Cuckoo, Yakub, Balam, Achla Sachdev, Gogia Pasha etc.
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Thandi thandi hawaa jo aaye
Posted on: June 15, 2011
It always makes for a refreshing change when one gets to listen to a song sung by a “fresh” voice that one has not heard much.
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Gori chali piyaa ke desh
Posted on: March 11, 2011
I am aware of a movie called “Shamaa”(1961) that had music by Ghulam Mohammad. Now it turns out that there is another movie by the same name that was released in 1946 and it had music by Ghulam Haider. I other words, both these movies with similar names have music by similarly named music directors as well.
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Lyrics of this song have been provided by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog
“Adaa” (1951) is a by now forgotten movie that had Shekhar, Rehana, Gope, Madan Puri etc in it. I had discussed two songs from this movie in the past. Sudhir recently came across another song from this movie and he pointed this song out to me.
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Songs of 1940s and 1950s are nostalgia lovers’ delight. These songs magically transport us back to the era when Rehana was a leading lady and Premnath was a lead actor.
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Dil do nainon mein kho gayaa
Posted on: December 26, 2010
“Sunahre Din” (1949) was a movie where Raj Kapoor, a newcomer was paired opposite Rehana, an established star of the times. This movie had some nice songs in it and I have discussed a couple of songs from this movie already.
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Bahaaron ne jise chhedaa hai
Posted on: December 22, 2010
Radio songs where a long lost individual sings live on radio station and his beloved just happens to be listening to that very radio station- this was one variation of lost and found themes that Hindi movies have been so fond of.
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Madan Mohan made his debut as a music director in 1950. In his debut movie “Aankhen” (1950), he used many singers, but curiously enough, Lata was not among them. From his next movie, Lata became an important singer for him.
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