Posted by: squarecutatul on: November 7, 2009
“Aaraam” (1951) was a movie where Dev Anand was the hero. but in this movie one can also see a very young Premnath.
In this movie, one can als see a very young talat Mehmood. And here, he not only acts, but also sings a song that is picturised on himself.
This song is a ghazal, and [...]
Posted by: squarecutatul on: November 7, 2009
I have posted a couple of songs from “Sazaa” (1951) already, but even I was not aware of this song.
This song is a duet sung by Lata and Talat Mehmood. I can see Dev Anand in the picturisation, but who is the lady lip syncing in Lata’s voice ? As it is, I am [...]
Posted by: squarecutatul on: November 4, 2009
“Gateway of India” (1957) is a forgotten movie from the past. It had Pradeep Kumar and Madhubala in lead roles. The movie flopped at the box office.
Posted by: squarecutatul on: October 29, 2009
I had never heard of this movie called “Pehli Jhalak”, but there was one movie by this name in 1954. And now that I have stumbled upon the songs of this movie, I have realised that this movie has some lovely songs in it.
Posted by: squarecutatul on: October 27, 2009
In this blog, I post gems from the golden era of Bollywood movie music, which happened to be roughly from 1950 to 1980, though I have posted songs that are from the times falling outside this era as well. Many of the songs that I have posted are well known even today, while many other [...]
Posted by: squarecutatul on: October 24, 2009
Here is a song from “Amardeep” (1958). This was a movie starring Dev Anand, Vyjyanti Mala and Padmini.
Posted by: squarecutatul on: October 24, 2009
I thought that I had posted songs from “Sharada” in the past. It turns out that I was confusing “Sharada” with “Sadhana”. Yes, those days we had movies with names like “Sharada”, “Sadhana”, “Kalpana” etc which were also the names of some well known actresses. Incidentally, the actress with the same name was nowhere to [...]
Posted by: squarecutatul on: October 21, 2009
When I had started this blog with the aim of posting old classic songs, I had assessed that if I posted about 2500 songs, I would have covered them all. How wrong I was. I have already posted over 2000 songs, and I still continue to stumble upon “new” songs almost every day. And I [...]
Posted by: squarecutatul on: October 19, 2009
I had never heard this song before. I heard this song for the first time only just now. And what a song it is.
Posted by: squarecutatul on: October 17, 2009
Just now I stumbled upon a 50 year old song, and listened to it for the first time.