Tuesday 19 July 2016

Hindi Cinema of 1950s

1950

1950s and 60s was the Golden Era of Indian Cinema.It was the decade when the Star System in present form started to emerge.Three Heroes ,Dev Anand, Dilip Kumar and Raj Kapoor started to dominate the hindi film industry.Each of them with their their unique style of acting and films were giving hits after hits.
Ashok Kumar who was the Star Hero of 1940s was slowly loosing his popularity in the 50s as a hero.In 1950 the No one Hit movie was Samadhi starring Ashok Kumar but Dilip Kumar's Babul and Jogan were next to Samadhi.Raj Kapoor gave 2 Hit movies that year"Dastan"and "Sargam,"Dev Anand's "Afsar" and "Nili" were also among successful movies.
LATA MANGESHKAR emerged the female voice for the years to come,among Music Directors S D Burman,Naushad and C Ramchandra to dominate in Music Industry.

The music Directors like C Ramchandra,S D Burman,Naushad and Khemchand Prakash were the composers who gave hit music in 1950.Mahal's song "Aayega Aane Wala" by Lata dominated in early months of 1950,similarly Mukesh's"Tu Kahe Agar"of Andaz was also popular. "Gore Gore Banke Chhore" (Oh Fair Lad) sung by Lata Mangeshkar and Amirbai Karnataki, and picturised on Kuldip Kaur and Nalini Jaywant, becoming a popular song composed by C. Ramchandra

,A famous song by Talat Mehmood and Shamshad was "Milte Hi Anken Dil Hua Diwana Kisika".Naushad had Talat Mehmood singing for the first and last time under his baton. The famous Talat solo was "Husnwalon Ko Na Dil Do Yeh Mita Dete Hain" The film was "Babul". Another popular songtht year was from the film "Sangram" was "Yaara Wai Wai, Yaara Wai Wai"

Another song "Tara Ri Tara ri" sung by Suraiya and Mohammed Rafi, became a popular number was from the film"Dastan".S D Burman gave a hit song from Afsar sung by Suraiya "Man Mor Hua Matwaala"

"Baaware Nain" came out with great songs by Roshan,The song"Khyalon Mei Kisike"sung by Mukesh and Geeta Dutt and "Teri Duniya Mein Dil Lagta Nahin" by Mukesh were immensely popular.

Khyalon Mei Kisike"sung by Mukesh and Geeta Dutt

Teri Duniya Mein Dil Lagta Nahin

Madan Mohan's first movie as composer"Ankhen"also had popular music of that time"Preet Lagake Maine" by Mukesh and duet of Mukesh and Shamshad Begum "Hamse Nain Milana" with funny words and catchy music are worth mentioning.

Preet Lagake Maine from Ankhen

Hamse Nain Milana from Ankhen

A Rare Song of Talat Mahmood from the film Anmol Ratan

Every song of this film was a masterpiece. Music Director Vinod has dumped all his talents to decorate songs with superb melodeous tunes. Songs like this "Jab Kisi Ke Rukh Pe", "Yaad aane wale phir yad", 'Shikwa tera main gaon - Lata Talat and "Dard mila hay teri payar ki nishani"" chand wahi hay"" meri ghoonghat men do nain - Lata " Lakhon me ek hamare sajna - Nirmla Devi are immortal. Lyrics are penned by D N Madhok.

Infact Anmol Rattan was Talat Mahmood's first movie as a singer but Arzoo(1950) was released earlier the credit of Talat's first song goes to composer Anil Biswas for the song "Ae Dil Mujhe Aisi Jagah Le Chal". The popularity of that ghazal had Vinod choose Talat for one more film Wafa (1950). Playback singers included Talat Mahmood, Lata Mangeshkar, Nirmala and Asha Bhosle

Ae Dil Mujhe Aisi Jagah Le Chal

Jogan is a 1950 Bollywood romantic drama film directed by Kidar Nath Sharma and starring Dilip Kumar andNargis. It features the song, "Ghungat ke pat khol" sung by Geeta Dutt. Rajendra Kumar in his film debut plays a small role.There were 14 songs in that film,Geeta Dutt sang 11 of them.

Ghungat ke pat khol from Jogan

In the same year music of Dev Anand's movie "Dilruba"also became popular,the music was composed by Gyan Dutt,The romantic song 'Hum Ne Khai Hai Mohabbat Ki Kasam"sung by Geeta Dutt and G M Durrani

Hum Ne Khai Hai Mohabbat Ki Kasam from Dilruba

Another Dev Anand's movie Niralaa had good songs,here is a Lata Mangeshkar song which was very popular acted by Madhubala.Music was given by C Ramchandra.