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


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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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Blog Day :6533Post No. :20323

#the Decade of Fifties – 1951 – 1960 #

The song being covered in the article is a nice melodious bhajan from the movie ‘Bhakt Dhruv-1957’.

As many as seven Hindi films have been made on the story of Dhruv Kumar or Bhakt Dhruv. These movies are ‘Dhruv Charitra-1933’, ‘Dhruv Kumar-1938’, ‘Bhakta Dhruva-1947’, ‘Bhakta Dhruv-1957’ and ‘Bhakta Dhruv Kumar-1964’ and ‘Baalak Dhruva-1974’. There was one movie in 1983 which was a dubbed movie titled as ‘Bhakta Dhruv-1983’.

Three of the abovementioned movies are already represented in the blog. They are ‘Bhakta Dhruv-1947’, ‘Bhakta Dhruv-1957’ and ‘Bhakta Dhruv Kumar-1964’. The two movies of 1930s are not represented because the songs of these movies are perhaps not available. Movies from the seventies and the eighties could make their debuts in the blog in near future.

“Bhakt Dhruv-1957” was directed by Gunjaal for ‘Ashok Pictures’. It was produced by R.L. Arora and this movie was passed by Censor Board on 18.10.1957. The cast of this movie had Sulochana, Shahu Modak, Jeevan, Vinod Kumar, Bimla, Sundar, Gulaab, Shammi, Ramesh Kapoor, Amar, Kesho and others. Mala Sinha, Trilok Kapoor, Anant Kumar, Badri Prasad, Ramesh Sinha and Kanchanmala had guest appearance in this movie. This movie has seven songs as per details given below. All the songs of this movie were written by Pt. Madhur. Music was composed by Basant Prakash and Avinash Vyas. Here is the list of songs of this movie with their status on the blog:-

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Blog Day :6533Post No. :20322

Today’s song is from a Social film – Parakh-1944.

Made by Central Studios, Bombay the film was directed by Sohrab Modi. The music was by 2 MDs – Khursheed Anwar (7 songs) and Saraswati Devi (2 songs). The cast ofthe film included Mehtab, Balwant Singh, Kaushalya, Shahnawaz, Yakub, Sadiq Ali, Pratima Devi, Balraj Mehta and some others.

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Blog Day :6532Post No. :20321

Today’s song is from a very old film -Jeevan Prabhat-1937.

The film was made by Bombay Talkies. It was directed by Franz Osten. The music was by Saraswati Devi and the Lyricist was J.S.Casshyap. The film was Debut film for the lead actor Kishore Sahu and actress Renuka Devi. The cast included Devika Rani, Kishore Sahu, Mumtaz Ali, Maya Devi, Chandraprabha (sister of Saraswati Devi), Renuka Devi, Prithviraj Kapoor and many others.

In the initial era of Talkie films, Calcutta’s New Theatres and Poona’s Prabhat were the most well known filmmakers. They used to make films on social issues. Particularly, Prabhat was famous for keeping their films centred on the Reform themes like,Dowry, Child Marriage, Second Marriage, Cast difference etc.From the mid 30s one more company came into limelight and that was Bombay Talkies- founded by Himanshu Rai and Devika Rani. They also followed the trend and films on social issues like Untouchability, illiteracy etc were made.

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Blog Day :6531Post No. :20320

“Shrimaanji”(1968) was produced and directed by Ram Dayal for Mukul Enterprises, Bombay. The movie had Kishore Kumar, I S Johar, Jeevan, Asha Nadkarni, Meena Rai, Shahida, Asit Sen, Wasti, Murad, Ram Kamlani, Hiralal, Neelam, W M Khan, Veena, Madhumati, Sharifa etc in it.

The movie was a comedy movie for bulk of its run time, but in the initial reels the movie was a meldrama, whereas the last few reels were murder cum courtroom drama.

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Blog Day :6531Post No. :20319

Today’s song is from a Mythological film Waman Avtar – 1955.

The film was made by Bombay film productions, Bombay. It was produced byB.C.Patel and Raman B. Desai. Desai also directed this film. The music was by an expert in such films -Avinash Vyas, ably assisted by Sanmukh Babu Upadhyaya- who became an independent Music Director in later years. The cast of the film included many artistes, but the main were Nirupa Roy, Trilok Kapoor, Sapru, Praveen Kumar, Bipin Gupta, Janaki Das, Yashodhara Katju and many others. Lyrics were by G.S.Nepali and Kavi Pradeep.

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Blog Day :6531Post No. :20318

#the Decade of Forties – 1941 – 1950 #

Today 5th June is observed as World Environment Day. World Environment Day was observed for the first time in 1974. In this year 2026, the fifty-third World Environment Day is being observed. One host country is selected for every world environment day. This year, Azerbaijan is the host country for World Environment Day. The national theme adopted by the host country Azerbaijan for this years World Environment Day is ‘Inspired by Nature. For Climate. For Our Future’. The global World Environment Day celebrations operate under United Nations Environment Program campaign banner which is ‘#NowForClimate’.

We try to connect ourselves with these celebrations by posting a song on the blog which is relevant to the topic.

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Blog Day :6530Post No. :20313Movie Count :5214

Alphabetical list of actresses who have lip synced in Asha Bhonsle’s voice- Part IV

(Actresses whose name begin with the letter D)

In the first three episodes of the series, we listed actresses whose names begin with the first three letters of the alphabet and who had lip synced in Asha Bhonsle’s voice in the blog. They we went on to cover a song that was lip synced by another acresses whose name began with the same letter and who had not lip synced in Asha Bhonsle’s voice in the blog.

The exercise of finding a “new” actress whose name begins with a particular letter is being increasingly difficult. The three “new” actresses who made their debuts in the blog (as far as lip syncing in Asha Bhonsle’s voice is concerned) were Anju Mahendru, Bhanupriya and Chandrakala.

In this episode, we arrive at the letter D. There are only five actresses who have lip synced in Asha Bhonsle’s voice in the blog.

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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 :6530Post No. :20316

‘Pyaar Deewaana’ (1972) was produced and directed by Samar Chatterjee who also wrote and acted in the film. The cast included Kishore Kumar, Mumtaz, Padma Khanna, Iftekhar, S Banerjee, Shefali, Samson, Moni Chatterjee, S K Sham, Rajnibala, Satish Arora, Sunder etc. The film is a light hearted family drama.

The film was in the making for a long time and the songs were recorded sometime in mid-1960s. The shooting of the film started with the title, ‘Mr Buddhu’ which was subsequently changed to ‘Zindagee Phir Muskaayee’. It was only at the time of the release, the title was changed to ‘Pyaar Deewaana.(Source: ’Kishore Kumar-The Ultimate Biography’ by Anirudh Bhattacharjee and Parthiv Dhar, 2022).

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