Posts Tagged ‘S D Burman’
Aaj ki raat piyaa dil na todo
Posted on: January 23, 2010
I have posted several songs from “Baazi” (1951) in this blog in the past. This song being posted now is one that is very well known to many, but I was not aware of this song. When I listened to this song (just now) for the first time, I wondered how I had never heard this song before.
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I am vaguely aware of the movie “Insaan Jaag uthaa” (1959). Now I know that this movie had Sunil Dutt and Madhubala in lead roles. I was not aware earlier that the two had worked together in a movie.
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Hamen chhod piyaa kis des gaye
Posted on: December 28, 2009
I have posted a few songs from “Do Bhai” (1947) in this blog. It is in this movie that Geeta Roy (later Geeta Dutt) made her debut as a playback singer. It is in this movie that she sang the well known “mera sundar sapna beet gayaa”.
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Aji preet ka naataa toot gayaa
Posted on: December 11, 2009
I have posted several songs from “Do Bhai” (1947). It is this movie where Geeta Ray (as Geeta Dutt was then known) first came to limelight with her “mera sundar sapna beet gayaa”. I have since come across other Geeta Dutt songs from this movie which I liked even more.
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Mere piyaa to base pardes re
Posted on: December 4, 2009
In 1944 Naushad had introduced folk music based tunes to bollywood movies with “Rattan” (1944). One day when S D Burman went to his kitchen, he found his cook singing a song from Rattan (“jab tumhi chale pardes”) with great relish-“jhoom jhoom ke”.
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Ho gayi re teri ho gayi
Posted on: November 26, 2009
“Sazaa”(1951) has a few very nice songs that I was aware of and whicch I have already posted. I stumbled upon another song from this movie about which I was just not aware. The song as well as the picturisation just bowled me over as soon as I got an opportunity to watch this song.
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Bollywood movie songs of 1940s are of considerable importance and interest, because the singing legends of later decades were taking their first tentative steps in their singing careers at that time. For instance, Rafi was just two movies old as a playback singer when 1947 began. In 1947, he sang in “Do Bhai” and “Jugnu”. The “Jugnu” song-“Yahaan badla wafaa ka bewafaayi ke siwaa kyaa hai” proved to be the first major hit of his singing career.
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“Ek Ke Baad Ek” (1960) is a lesser known movie starring Dev Anand and Sharada.
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I have posted a song from “Bahaar” (1951) in the past. That song was the well known song “Sainyaa dil mein aana re” which was sung by Shamshad Begam and picturised on Vyjyanti Mala.
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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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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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