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this article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
In the last few days, I have been looking for songs composed by Shyam Sundar, the forgotten music director of 40s and early 50s. Whenever I think of him, the name of another forgotten music director Sajjad Hussain creeps in my mind. If Shyam Sundar was called a genius music director, Sajjad Hussain was called an original music director by none other than Anil Biswas, the ‘Bheeshm Pitaamah’ of Hindi film music. Despite these superlatives against their names, Shyam Sundar and Sajjad Hussain composed music for only 20 and 17 Hindi films respectively in their careers. This works out to on an average 2 films per year for Shyam Sunder (1943 to 1953) and less than 1 film per year for Sajjad Hussain ( 1944 to 1977). One common reason attributed for their musical output not being commensurate with their talents was that both were short tempered and perfectionist to the extent that they were uncompromising which was not to the liking of producers/directors of the films.
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Hindi movie titles are often like comets that visits us at periodical intervals. For instance, the title “Dost” seems to get repeated once every decade. We have had movies with this title in 1944, 1954 and 1974. We did not have a movie of the title “Dost” in 1964, but we had “Dosti” in 1964 !
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This blog had songs from “Naadaan”(1951) and “Nadaan” (1971). It turns out that a movie of the same title was also released as early as 1941. Very little information is available about this movie. This movie was directed by Zia Sarhadi. The movie had Aman, Noorjahaan, Masood etc in it.
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Aa intezaar hai tera
Posted on: April 23, 2013
“Badi Maa” (1945) was a Praful Pictures production. It was produced and directed by Master Vinayak. The starcast was Noorjahan, Ishwarlal, Yakub, Meenakshi, Sitara Devi etc.
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Diya jalaa kar aap bujhaaya
Posted on: September 21, 2012
Today (21 september) is the birth anniversary of Allah Wasai, popularly known as Noorjehaan (21 september 1926- 23 december 2000). She bagan her career in early 1940s as a child artist and soon graduated into adult roles as an actor-singer. She was at her peak when partition happened and she went to Pakistan, leaving the field of the leading female playback singing of Hindi movies up for grabs.
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Ham aankh michauli khelenge
Posted on: June 11, 2010
Here is a song of very old and historical vintage. The movie is “Khaandaan” (1942) and the song is “ham aankh michauli khelenge”.
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Mere bachpan ke saathi
Posted on: February 27, 2009
“Anmol Ghadi” (1946) is a movie that is known for some memorable Noorjahan songs. I have already posted one song from this movie ( “aaja meri barbaad muhabbat ke sahaare”).
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It is a legendary song sung by Noorjahan and it was picturised on Noorjahan herself. The movie is “Anmol Ghadi”(1946).
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