Memorable for its rabab riffs, and Manna Dey’s soulful voice about home.Ģ0. It became the song of defiant love for India.ġ9. The coming together of potent lyrics, Naushad’s composition, Lata Mangeshkar’s voice and Madhubala as Anarkali immortalising the song with her cracker of a performance. 1960 Jab pyar kiya toh darna kya (Mughal-e-Azam) 1958 Yeh mera deewanapan hai (Yahudi)īimal Roy’s scathing comment on caste has lovelorn Brahmin boy Sunil Dutt singing for Sujata, a “lower”-caste girl.ġ8. OP Nayyar turned to Punjabi folk in this composition and presented it with his trademark ghudtaal (the clip-clop of horse’s hooves) in the rhythm.ġ3. This song complemented the memorable Ude jab jab zulfein teri. This protest song by Sahir Ludhianvi established him as a peerless poet of the time.ġ2. 1957 Jinhe naaz hai Hind par woh kahan hain (Pyaasa) Who can forget Mohammed Rafi’s heart- rending crescendo Jala do isse, phoonk daalo ye duniya that tore into our heads and hearts.ġ1. Sahir’s poignant verse highlighted the eternal struggle between the crassness of materialism and peace of the spiritual. 1957 Yeh duniya agar mil bhi jaye toh (Pyaasa) This iconic duet by Lata Mangeshkar and Manna Dey will always be remembered for the iconic imagery of Raj Kapoor and Nargis under the umbrella.ġ0. This Hemant Kumar composition is almost always sung every October 2. One of Kavi Pradeep’s early patriotic lyrics was dedicated to Mahatma Gandhi, his ideas of freedom and non-violence. The song broke all records at Radio Ceylon as people flooded their office with letters to ask for the singer’s name (The gramophone company only carried the character’s name – Kamini). This is the watershed year when Lata Mangeshkar, who sang this haunting Khemchad Prakash composition and took the nation’s breath away, sealing her supremacy in the Indian film industry for decades to come, with no rival in sight. This Ghulam Haider composition carried the zest of the youth wanting to lay down their lives for the nation.Ī trunk call from Rangoon (now Yangon, Myanmar) to Dehradun that spoke of love and longing was an inherently fabulous, funny and catchy number, with Shamsad Begum’s nasal inflection imprinting it in collective memory. Afsaana (story) became the song of the year. Weeks after August 15, an independent India cocked its ears to this gentle ditty put together by Urdu poet-lyricist Shakeel Badayuni and Naushad with Uma Devi crooning it in her earnest voice.
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