Archive for the ‘qawwali’ Category
Kaise mukhde se nazren hataaoon
Posted on: November 1, 2026
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a contributor to this blog. This article is meant to be posted in atulsongaday.me. If this article appears in other sites without the knowledge and consent of the web administrator of atulsongaday.me, then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.
| Blog Day: | 6680 | Post No. : | 20662 |
In this write-up, I am discussing a song from ‘English Babu Desi Mem’ (1996). Though the song structurally belongs to Sufi qawwali genre, it is blended with a very impressive dance performance by a group of dancers. I have already given the story of the film in detail in this article which appeared on the Blog a few days back. So, I give below only the gist of the story to recapitulate the background.
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| Blog Day: | 6678 | Post No. : | 20658 |
“Dhoom Dhaam”(1949) was directed by Rajaram for Shama Productions, Bombay. The movie had Agha, Baburao, Leela Kumari, Urvashi, Girdhari, Vasantrao etc in it.
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a contributor to this blog. This article is meant to be posted in atulsongaday.me. If this article appears in other sites without the knowledge and consent of the web administrator of atulsongaday.me, then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.
| Blog Day : | 6544 | Post No. : | 20364 | Movie Count : | 5222 |
‘Alladin And The Wonderful Lamp/Adventures of Alladin’ (1978) was produced and directed by Homi Wadia under the banner of Basant Pictures.
The cast included Sachin, Naazneen, Jaishree T, Raza Murad, Paintal, Sudhir, Razvi, Kanchan Mattoo, Vandana Shashtri, Sunil Dhawan, Hercules, Habib , Sheikh etc. The film was a remake of Homi Wadia’s own film, ‘Aladdin Aur Jaadui Chiraag’ (1952).
Interestingly, the gramophone records of the songs were issued with the film’s title, ‘Alladin And The Wonderful Lamp’. The Censor Certificate was issued under the film’s title, ‘Alladin Aur Jaadui Chiraag in Hindi and ‘Alladin And The Wonderful Lamp’ in English. However, in the credit title of the film, the film’s name was changed to ‘Adventures of Alladin (Alladin Ke Kaarnaame). This was the last film directed by Homi Wadia, Thereafter, he produced his last film, ‘Mahabali Hanuman’ (1980).
Kya takalluf hai wallah
Posted on: June 11, 2026
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a contributor to this blog. This article is meant to be posted in atulsongaday.me. If this article appears in other sites without the knowledge and consent of the web administrator of atulsongaday.me, then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.
| Blog Day : | 6537 | Post No. : | 20340 |
‘Jail Yaatra’ (1981) was produced by Vijay Maria and Praveen Bali and was directed by Bhappi Sonie. The cast included Ashok Kumar, Vinod Khanna, Reena Roy, Amjad Khan, Anwar Hussain, Ashoo, Heena Kausar, Jyoti Bakshi, Jaishree T, Anjana Mumtaz, Dhumal, Vandana Shashtri, Rajan Kapoor, Beena, Abhimanyu Sharma, Brahm Bhardwaj, Katy Mirza, Manhar Desai, Keshav Rana, Mushtaq Merchant, Shivraj etc. Nirupa Roy and Jagdeep made their friendly appearances. The film went to floor sometime in 1975 but got delayed in its completion mainly due to Vinod Khanna’s frequent visits to Rajnish Ashram. Incidentally, during 1981-86, Vinod Khanna had taken sabbatical from the film industry.
This article is written by Arunkumar Deshmukh, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a contributor to this blog. This article is meant to be posted in atulsongaday.me. If this article appears in other sites without the knowledge and consent of the web administrator of atulsongaday.me, then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.
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6509 | Post No. : | 20233 |
Today’s song is a qawwali from the social film – Madmast-1953.
The producer and director of this film was Jagdish C. Pant and the Music Director was V.Balsara. There were 3 lyricists who wrote 11 songs. Madhuraj aka Madhukar Rajasthani (7 songs), Manav (3) and J.C.Pant (1)- director and producer of this film. The cast included Nirupa Roy, Shashikala, Sapru, Ansari, Mukri, S.Nazir, Shakila and others. We have no idea about the film’s storyline. For 11 songs, there were 8 singers. Some new names like Dhan Indorewala, Bahadur Nanji and Mahendra Kapoor were seen here.
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Tu hai ke naheen hai
Posted on: May 9, 2026
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a contributor to this blog. This article is meant to be posted in atulsongaday.me. If this article appears in other sites without the knowledge and consent of the web administrator of atulsongaday.me, then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.
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6504 | Post No. : | 20215 |
I am presenting the 16th and probably the last song from ‘Sangeet Samrat Tansen’ (1962). It is a qawwali song, ‘tu hai ke naheen hai’ written by Shailendra. The qawwali is rendered by Mohammed Rafi and Manna Dey who sings for Prem Sagar (not to be confused with Ramanand Sagar’s son of the same name) and Bharat Bhushan, respectively.
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Ghar loota hai ghar waale
Posted on: April 4, 2026
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6469 | Post No. : | 20098 |
“Paataal Pari”(1957) was produced by Bakht Bahadur Singh and directed by S P Bakshi for Sardar Pictures, Bombay. This fantasy movie had Shakila, Jairaj, Tiwari, Kumkum, Ramesh Thakur, Yashodhar Katju, Mohinder, Habeeb, Ramkumar, Zippy, Uma Dutt, H Prakash, Gulnaar, Khairaati, Sheikh etc alongwith guest artists Shree Mohan, Heera Sawant and Indra in it.
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This article is written by Arunkumar Deshmukh, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a contributor to this blog. This article is meant to be posted in atulsongaday.me. If this article appears in other sites without the knowledge and consent of the web administrator of atulsongaday.me, then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.
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6468 | Post No. : | 20092 |
Today’s song is a qawwali from a Bilingual film – Kalakar-1954.
This was a film made in 2 languages-Hindi and Marathi. The film was made by Datta Dharmadhikari, for his own banner Alhad Chitra, poona. (Alhad was his son’s name).
When talkie films started, it also prompted the Marathi producers to make films in Hindi and Marathi, in order to capture the bigger All India market and to make more money. The very first Marathi Talkie film ‘ Ayodhyecha Raja ‘-1932 was also made in Hindi as ‘ Ayodhya ka Raja ‘at the same time. So, in this game of Bilinguals Marathi films were ahead of Bengali films, whose first Bilingual came out much later.
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This article is written by Satyajit Rajurkar, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a contributor to this blog. This article is meant to be posted in atulsongaday.me. If this article appears in other sites without the knowledge and consent of the web administrator of atulsongaday.me, then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.
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6433 | Post No. : | 19971 |
“Badi Door Se Chal Kar” sung by Mohd Rafi and Aziz Nazan was written by Majrooh Sultanpuri and composed by Rajesh Roshan for the movie “Jai Vijay” (1977).
“Jai Vijay”(1977) was directed by L V Prasad for Prasad Productions, Bombay. This movie had Jeetendra, Reena Roy, Prem Kishan, Bindiya Goswami, Om Shivpuri, Satyen Kappoo, Urmila Bhatt, Kamal Kapoor, Lalita Pawar, Paintal, Brahamchaari, Sarla Yevlekar, Appi Umrani, Harish, Viju Khote, Lalita Kumari, Vikas Anand, Ranjan, Brahm Bhardwaj, Bhagwan, Roopesh kumar etc, with special appearances by Jayshre T and Veena.
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This article is written by Avinash Scrapwala, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a contributor to this blog. This article is meant to be posted in atulsongaday.me. If this article appears in other sites without the knowledge and consent of the web administrator of atulsongaday.me, then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.
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6415 | Post No. : | 19908 | Movie Count : |
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#the Decade of Fifties – 1951 – 1960 #
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Today’s song is from the movie ‘Shareef Daaku-1960’. This movie is making its debut on the blog today. It seems to be an obscure movie of its time.
One big advantage of the internet era is that sharing of resources has become easy. It has enabled music lovers to share music from obscure movies that would have remained out of reach of most music lovers if there was no internet. Songs from old movies that were considered very rare songs and even lost songs have become available with time for the listening pleasure of music lovers. One cannot thank the uploaders of such songs enough. Music lovers will remain grateful for their generosity in sharing such rare musical gems online.
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