Posts Tagged ‘Shailendra’
Dil apnaa aur preet paraayi
Posted on: November 25, 2010
By late 1950s, Meena Kumari was moving over from happy bubbly roles to weepy sentimental roles. “Dil Apna Aur Preet Paraayi” (1960) is one of the first such movies where Meena Kumari was seen in such a role, though her role here is not as melodramatic as it would become in her subsequent movies.
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Ghazals became a popular kind of songs in Hindi movies in 1960s. But it was in early 1950s that Ghazals began to get popular in Hindi movies.
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Songs in which actors, especially male actors would accuse female actors of “bewafaayi” were quite common in Hindi movies. Such songs would often be sung in isolation, but often such songs would be sung in get together/ parties too. The male actor would go on with his accusation and the female would feel embarrased as well as guilty in full public view. The public, viz the other participants in the party would consist of people standing/ sitting in their positions like statues.
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“Aagosh” (1953), a forgotten movie by now, had Nasir Khan, Nutan and Shakila.
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“Sawera” (1958) is a forgotten movie by now. This movie had Ashok Kumar and Meena Kumari in lead roles. Like most movies of those days, this movie too had some nice songs in it.
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Party songs are one of the more common kind of songs in Hindi movies. Every mainstream movie tended to have a party song in it.
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I am aware of movies called “Aag” and “Aah” which were produced in late 1940s and early 1950s/ respectively. Another movie of a similar sounding title, viz “Aas” was also produced in the same era. This movie had Shekhar and Kamini Kaushal in it.
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Josh e jawaani haay re haay
Posted on: November 3, 2010
“Around The world” (1967) is a movie that was full of nice songs, but the movie flopped (predictably, since it was a different kind of a movie) and as a result, the movie and its songs were gradually forgotten with time.
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1950s was the decade when Hindi movie music found its feet and the rules of Hindi movie songs were established.
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Baat badhti gayi khel khel mein
Posted on: October 31, 2010
I am not much aware about this movie called “Insaan Jaag Uthaa” (1959). I just found out that this movie had Sunil Dutt and Madhubala in lead roles. I was not aware that these two had acted together in a movie.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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