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


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Blog Day :6535Post No. :20333Movie Count :5216

When Atul started his alphabetical series of actresses who have lip-synced to Asha Bhosle’s voice, I suggested the names of some actresses who were missing from the list. I also sent the respective songs. Amala’s name was on my list, along with the song “Step by Step” from Dost (1989). When I asked Atul if he would mind my writing a post on the song, he replied that he would welcome it. This is how this contribution of mine came about after a long hiatus from this resourceful blog.

I became aware of Amala through her first Hindi film, Pushpak (1987). The film made quite a splash in the Hindi film industry, as it was a silent movie released in the middle of a decade that was full of very loud films. I did not have the chance to watch it in a cinema hall at the time. Amala looked quite different from the usual Hindi heroines of that era. In her interviews, she came across as a very sympathetic person who was actively involved in efforts against cruelty to animals. This brings us to the plot of the movie in question.

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Blog Day :6535Post No. :20332

I present one of the most popular ghazals, ‘kal chaudhveen kee raat thhee’ (1979) composed and rendered by Jagjit Singh. The ghazal is written by Jalandhar-born Pakistani poet, humourist, journalist and travel writer, Ibn-e-Insha (1927-1978).

I had a faint memory of this ghazal sometime in 1980s but at that time, there were other popular ghazals of Jagjit Singh which have remained in my memory like ‘ishq mein ghairat e jazbaat ne rone na diyaa’, ‘duniyaa jise kehte hain’, ‘baat niklegi to phir door talak jaayegi’, etc. It is only during the last 2-3 years that I have listened to this ghazal online umpteen times and have started admiring this ghazal for its soulful rendition.

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Blog Day :6535Post No. :20331

Hullo Atuldom

At the outset I would like to wish our in-house Encyclopaedia Shri. Arunkumar Deshmukhji a very Happy Birthday. May he always enlighten us with his knowledge on well-known, known & not-so-well-known artists who have walked the firmament of the Indian film industry. May he always find artists about whom he has not-yet shared any information. May he always be available to us when we pop questions or doubts about anything and everything. All this in the time he finds between his writing for the blog and books. I would also like to wish him lots of time with his family and followers and admirers.

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Blog Day :6535Post No. :20330

#the Decade of Fifties – 1951 – 1960 #

(Lyricist Kavi Pradeep-69)

This song under discussion is from the movie ‘Basant Panchami-1956’. It was directed by Jayant Desai for ‘Hemlata Pictures’. Jayant Desai was also the producer of this movie. As mentioned in HFGK Vol-III (1951-1960) ‘Basant Panchami-1956’ was a devotional or ‘bhakti pradhaan’ movie. This movie was passed by Censor Board on 24.07.1956. The cast of this movie included Nirupa Roy, Anant Kumar, Jeevan, S.N. Tripathi, Radhakishan, Yashodhara Katju, Niranjan Sharma, Kumkum, Babu Raje, Charubala, Anand Joshi, Sukumar, Dubey, Uma Dutt, Naazi, Shri Bhagwan and others.

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Blog Day :6535Post No. :20329

Today’s song is from a daring and novel film of the first decade of the Talkie films, Khwaabon Ki Duniya-1937.

Made by Prakash Pictures, it was directed by Vijay Bhatt, one of the owners, with music by Lallubhai Nayak. The cast included Jayant, Sardar Akhtar, Shirin bano, Lallubhai, Umakant, M.Ismail, Zahoor, Madhav Marathe and others.

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Blog Day :6534Post No. :20328

Mukesh and his Actors – 11

Mukesh sang one of his most iconic and quintessential sad songs in the film Aabroo (1968). The film was from the production house of Rawal Films.


Its director was C. L. Rawal, writer and lyricist was G. L. Rawal and producer B. L. Rawal.


It was the debut film of actor Deepak Kumar and the most famous song from the film; Mukesh’s solo was picturized on Deepak Kumar. While preparing this post, I learnt that Deepak Kumar was the son of C. L Rawal.

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Blog Day :6534Post No. :20327

#the Decade of Fifties – 1951 – 1960 #

(Lyricist Kavi Pradeep-68)

This song is from the 1957 movie ‘Naag Mani’.

“Naag Mani-1957” (as spelled in Geet Kosh) was directed by Raman B Desai for ‘Bombay Movietone, Bombay’. Raman B. Desai was also the producer of this movie, which was a ‘mythological’ movie. The cast of this movie had Nirupa Roy, Trilok Kapoor, Manhar Desai, P. Kailash, S.N. Tripathi, Rajan Haksar, Poonam Kapoor, Sundar, Babu Raje, Yashodhara Katju, Rajrani, Helen, Sheela Kashmiri, Roopa, Heera Sawant, Uma Khosla, Lata, Nimmo Firoze, Lata Roy, Sarla, Buta Ram Sharma, Gangaram, K.P. Rao, S.P. Anand, S.N. Ghosh, Avtaar Singh and others. “Naag Mani-1957” was passed by censor board on 30.09.1957.

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Blog Day :6534Post No. :20326

Today’s song is from the revolutionary film- Duniya Na Mane-1937.

The Prabhat Film Company led by V. Shantaram could no longer sit back with their period films and decided to bring about social awareness through films. They took a gigantic leap with their historic production “Duniya Na Mane”. A great social classic, the first one on the empowerment of women, it denounced the dowry menace and the evil custom of old men virtually buying young brides. Eight decades have gone by and I am still waiting to see a film as revolutionary, daring, genuine and sincere in addressing a social issue related to the treatment of women in Indian society. Considered to be one of the best films made in India, it has left a permanent mark on the pages of film history and also on the minds of the audience of my generation. No wonder, highly acclaimed by the media it was then shown at the Venice International Film Festival.

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Blog Day :6533Post No. :20325Movie Count :5215

Hrishikesh Mukherjee has been known to make family-oriented films with intricate human relationship issues presented through light comedy. ‘Anand’ (1970), Baawarchi’ (1972), ‘Chupke Chupke’ (1975), ‘Gol Maal’ (1979), ‘Khubsoorat’ (1980), ‘Naram Garam’ (1981) and ‘Rang Birangi’ (1983) are some of his well-known films in this genre. There is another of his film, ‘Kisee Se Na Kehnaa’ (1983) which is making a debut on the Blog after about 18 years since the Blog started. This is a lesser-known film of Hrishikesh Mukherjee. I had heard the name of the film but was not aware that it was directed by Hrishikesh Mukherjee until a couple of days back.

‘Kisee Se Na Kehnaa’ (1983) was produced by Jaywant Pathare and Ashok Rawat and was directed by Hrishikesh Mukherjee. The cast included Farooque Sheikh and Deepti Naval in lead roles supported by Utpal Dutt, Saeed Jafferi, S N Bannerjee, Deven Verma, Lalita Kumari, Asha Sharma, Ketki Dave, Kanu Roy etc. Prema Narayan and Yunus Parvez made the guest appearances in the film. The film belongs to light comedy genre.

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Blog Day :6533Post No. :20324

“Chanda Aur Bijli”(1966) was produced and directed by AtmaRam for Guru Dutt Films combines. This movie had Sanjeev Kumar, Padmini, Sachin Pilgaonkar aka Master Sachin, Jeevan, Kesto Mukherjee, Bela Bose, Ulhas, Pratima Devi, Bipin Gupta, Akashdeep, Mohan Choti, Jankidas, Jerry, Dev Kishan, Mahavir, Junior Mehmood, Muniraj, Pardesi, Radheshyam, Zebunnissa, Randhir, Johnny, Farooque, Kuddoos, Abubakkar, Jayashree etc in it.

Nabendu Ghosh adapted the novel “Oliver Twist” for Hindi movie audiences and wrote the screenplay of this movie.

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