Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs


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This article is the 19900th song post in the blog. This article also marks the 600th duet of Rafi and Asha Bhonsle in the blog.

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6412 Post No. : 19900 Movie Count :

5185

It was 29 days ago (on 9 January 2026) that we had reached blog song post number 19800. That song post also happened to be 300th duets of Kishore Kumar and Asha Bhonsle. If 300 duets of a pair of singers is an enormous achievement then what will we say about twice that number of duets ? 600 duets !! That is a mind boggling mind numbing number of duets. This feat is achieved by Mohammad Rafi and Asha Bhonsle in the blog.
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This article is his 100th post on Mukesh as a playback singer.

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6412 Post No. : 19899

Mukesh and his Co-Singers –16

I begin this very special post with a video of Asha Bhosale ji on her own youtube channel.

A short video wherein she speaks about her first 3 songs in Hindi Films.

I tried to trace the chronological accuracy of the songs enlisted in the video. What I found was that the films mentioned seem to be correct, but she has sung two songs in her second film and so her duet in Lekh (1949) could be her fourth and she mentions it as her third.

Sometime later, I will try to trace the exact chronology, but what matters for this post is her first duet in Hindi Films.

A duet with none other than Mukesh.

I request readers to watch the interesting video as Asha ji talks of her initial days in the industry.

I wish the video was fully on Mukesh, but then she digresses on some other topic.

Anyway, her first interaction with Mukesh is quite interesting and only reaffirms and confirms the godly title given to Mukesh, “a noble soul”.

As is evident from the video, Mukesh right from his initial days had no qualms on worldly pleasures and led a simple, honest and righteous life. No wonder the voice emanating from such a noble soul continues to enthral music lovers all over the world to this day.

Coming to this post, I call it special as it is my 100th Mukesh post on the blog.
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6412 Post No. : 19898

Today, February 6, 2026, is the 86th birth anniversary of Bhupinder Singh (06/02/1940 – 18/07/2022), singer, composer and guitarist who regaled the listeners with his natural and wounded feeling voice. Gulzar had said about him in some context that Bhupendra was a bit of a fakir, just like Sufis and Sadhus. They look lazy but they are very focused and attentive. There is no greed or haste in him. Whatever Bhupinder does, he does from his heart. Because of his Sufiana spirit, Bhupinder Singh could render ghazals beautifully.

Born in Amritsar in 1940, Bhupinder Singh started his singing training in his childhood with his father, who was a music professor in Khalsa College in Amritsar. But his interest was more towards playing musical instruments. Bhupinder Singh grew up in Delhi after his father shifted there and completed his high school. In Delhi, he got further training from Ratilal and Gopal Krishan Acharya. From his teenage days, he had started singing ghazals to his friends in the tunes set by himself. Side by side, he developed interest in playing Hawaiian Guitar which he learnt by self-studies. He got a job in AIR Delhi as a singer and the musician under Satish Bhatia, another Hindi film music director.
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6412 Post No. : 19897

Today’s song is a complete turn around for my style of writing on old films and music. It is like something “out of syllabus” for me ! Today’s song is from the film Chameli ki shaadi-1986. Usually, I restrict my choices between 30s to the 60s films. But there are some films made after 1970 ( and even some after 2000) which I liked very much. Chameli ki shaadi-1986 is one such film.

Actually I saw my last Hindi film in a theatre somewhere in the year 1975-76. After that I have not visited any Theatre. I have not seen any Multiplex from inside anytime. It does not mean that I stopped seeing films. In the 80s and 90s I saw films on my VCR and later on, on Television. As my age advanced, my patience receded and it was impossible for me to sit before a TV set for 4 hours to watch a movie of 2 1/2 hours and advertisements of 1 1/2 hours. In any case after the year 2000 the kind of films made were certainly not to my taste and I stopped seeing films completely, with some exceptions.
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6412 Post No. : 19896

#the Decade of Fifties – 1951 – 1960 #
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(Lyricist Kavi Pradeep-57)
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Today 6th February 2026 is the 111th birth anniversary of Poet-Lyricist Kavi Pradeep. He was born on 06th Feb 1915 and he passed away on 11th December 1998. On this occasion here is a song penned by him for the movie ‘Chandi Poojaa-1957’.

‘Chandi Poojaa-1957’ was directed by Raman B. Desai for ‘New Precious Pictures, Bombay’. Dinu M. Desai was the Producer of this movie. The cast of this movie had Nirupa Roy, Manhar Desai, Prem Adib, Shanta Apte, Malay Sarkar, Sapru, Pande, Sangeeta, Narbada Shankar, Hansraj, Sudheer, Moni Chatterjee and others. ‘Chandi Pujaa or Chandi Poojaa-1957’ was passed by Censor Board on 19.07.1957. Geet Kosh Vol-III (1951-1960) mentions in the foot-note on the page of this movie that this movie ‘Chandi Pujaa’ was the last movie of actress Shanta Apte.
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6412 Post No. : 19895

#the Decade of Forties – 1941 – 1950 #
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(Lyricist Kavi Pradeep-55)
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Today 6th February 2026 is the 111th birth anniversary of Poet-Lyricist Kavi Pradeep. He was born on 06th February 1915 and he passed away on 11th December 1998.

On this occasion today we will be presenting a few songs written by him here on this blog.

In this post I am presenting a song from the 1941 movie ‘Jhoola’. It was directed by Gyan Mukherjee for the famous ‘Bombay Talkies Ltd, Bombay’. It has Leela Chitnis, Ashok Kumar, Shah Nawaz, V. H. Desai, Mumtaz Ali, Karuna Devi, Shahzadi, Rajkumari Shukla, Meenu Kapoor, M.A. Aziz, Kazi, Master Lakshman, Leeladhar Sharma, Iqbal Bai, B.M. Dixit, Jyoti, Dulari, Nana Palsikar and others. This movie has eleven songs which were all written by Kavi Pradeep. Music for this movie was composed by Saraswati Devi. The playback singers for this movie were Leela Chitnis, Ashok Kumar, Rahmat Bano, Kavi Pradeep and Arun Kumar.
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6411 Post No. : 19894

“Mahua” (1969) was produced, directed and written by Bibhuti Mitra. The movie had Shiv Kumar, Anjana Manjrekar aka Anjana Mumtaz, Premnath, Farah, Asit Sen, Aruna Irani, Murad,Jankidas, Ulhas, Badri Prasad etc in it.

“Mahua” (1969) had eight sonfs in it. Five songs have been covered in the blog. The fifth song was covered in the blog in 2014 after that there has been a break of more than 11 years when songs of this movie have not been taken up for discussion.

Here is the sixth song from “Mahua” (1969) to appear in the blog. This song is sung by Asha Bhonsle. Qamar Jalalabadi is the lyricist. Music is composed by Sonik Omi.

The song is picturised as a “remonstrating with the Almighty” song on Anjana Manjrekar (later Anjana Mumtaz) while her beloved Shiv Kumar is thrown to the lions, like how it used to be done in ancient Rome. While Anjana is singing the song shaming the Almighty if HE does not pay heed, Shiv Kumar is wrestling with a lion. as the song ends, Shiv Kumar emerges victorious over the lion. 🙂 It shows that singing “remontrating with the Almighty” song used to bear fruits in Hindi movies of yore ! 🙂


Song-Pyaar mera jo toone lootaa (Mahua)(1969) Singer-Asha Bhonsle, Lyricist-Qamar Jalalabadi, MD-Sonik Omi

Lyrics

Bhagwan
Bhagwan
Bhagwan
pyaar mera jo toone loota
samjhoongee Bhagwan hai jhootha
sabko naach nachaane waale
soch le
aaj tera imtahaan hai
bhagwan

ek thhee bavula naaree
toone uska lachhindar de hee diya
saccha Savitri ka pyaar thha
usne Yam se piya ko to le hee liya
pyaar saccha mera
de raha hai sada
ise chheenega kaise tu
soch le
ye to mera satyawan hai
soch le
aaj tera imtahaan hai
pyaar mera jo toone loota
samjhoongee Bhagwan hai jhootha
sabko naach nachaane waale
soch le
aaj tera imtahaan hai
Bhagwan

ansuya thhee prem pyaasee
rogee pritam ko usne bacha hee liya
Sita thhee Raghuwar kee pyaaree
usne Raavan se aanchal chhuda hee liya
dekh le bhar gaya ab ghada paap ka
paapee Raavan kee shakti ko noch le
tu to sarv shaktiman hai
paapee Raavan kee shakti ko noch le
tu to sarv shaktiman hai
Bhagwan
Bhagwan
Bhagwan


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6411 Post No. : 19893

“Hazaar Raaten”(1953) was produced and directed by Jayant Desai for Jayant Desai Productions, Bombay. The movie had Rehana, Bipin Gupta, Manhar Desai, Cuckkoo, Satyanarayan, Kuldeep Akhtar, Rewashankar, Gajendra Singh, Yunus, Shakuntala, Ameer Banu etc in it.
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6411 Post No. : 19892

Today’s song is from stunt film- Circus ki Sundari aka Circus Queen-1941.

The Film was made by producer Kikubhai Desai for his own banner Paramount Movietone, Bombay. It was directed by a veteran of such films, Balwant bhatt. The Music Director was Hafiz khan Mastana. The cast of the film included Miss Moti, Jal merchant, Gulab, puri, agha, A Kareem and others. The songs were written by P.L.Santoshi and A.Kareem.
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6411 Post No. : 19891

#the Decade of Forties – 1941 – 1950 #
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The song in this post is from an eighty-four year old movie ‘Shobha-1942’. Music for this movie was composed by Vasant Desai. When I saw that only one song from this movie have been posted on this blog so far, it piqued my interest to look for other songs from this movie. The other reason is the composer i.e. Vasant Desai. I love his music and there are many songs composed by him which I like very much. So, today I am presenting the second song from this movie ‘Shobha-1942’.

This movie ‘Shobha-1942’ was directed by Kumarsen Samarth for ‘Wadia Movietone, Bombay’. It was a ‘social movie’. The cast of this movie had Shobhna Samarth, Shahu Modak, Kusum Deshpande, Karan Deewan, Sulochana Chatterjee, Vimal Sardesai, David, Jaal Khambhata, Putlibai, Master Chhotu and others.

‘Shobha-1942’ has six songs as listed in Geet Kosh Vol-II (1941-1950). Pandit Indra is the lyricist for all the six songs. In Geet Kosh the name of playback singers for this movie are mentioned as Shobhna Samarth, Shahu Modak, and Miss Kalyani. However while presenting the first song from this movie on the blog our inhouse encylopeadia Shree Arunkumar jee has mentioned that the songs mentioned as sung by Shobhna Samarth are in fact in the voice of Saraswati Rane. Here is what he has mentioned in the post with the song ‘uhoon-uhoon-shikaari-na-khel’…

Film Shobha was a Wadia Movietone presentation. It was directed by Kumarsen Samarth, husband of Shobhana Samarth. The Lyricist was Indra and the composer was Vasant Desai. The film had 6 songs. With today’s song, film Shobha is making a Debut here. As per HFGK, 3 songs are sung by Shobhana Samarth, because on the record, her name is printed, but Girdharilal Vishwakarma ji has confirmed that these songs are sung by Saraswati Rane. In the discography of Saraswati Rane also these songs feature.

(Shree Arunkumar jee has also gave the story of this movie in his post above. However I am not reproducing that here. Readers can read this interesting post here )

Today we are going to listen to the second song from this movie which is in the voice of Miss Kalyani. It is a song of ‘after effects or side effects of falling in love’ :). Lyrics are by Pandit Indra Chandra and music is composed by the great composer Vasant Desai.

Let us listen to this song now …


Song-Wo dil mein humko yaad karen (Shobha)(1942) Singer-Miss Kalyani, Lyricist-Pt Indra Chandra, MD-Vasant Desai

Lyrics

wo dil mein hamko yaad karein
munh pher pher ham muskaayen
wo dil mein hamko yaad karein
munh pher pher ham muskaayen
ham roothhen to wo paanv paden
ham roothhen to wo paanv paden
wo roothhen to ham sharmaayen
wo roothhen to ham sharmaayen
wo dil mein hamko yaad karein
munh pher pher ham muskaayen

dil behlaane ke mauke hain
milne ke meethhe mausam hain
dil behlaane ke mauke hain
milne ke meethhe mausam hain
hamko din mein sapne aayen
ae ae ae
hey hey hey
hamko din mein sapne aayen
aur sapnon mein wo chhaa jaayen
wo dil mein hamko yaad karein
munh pher pher ham muskaayen

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