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


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Blog Day :6593Post No. :20491

Today’s songs from a Mythological film ‘Gaj Gauri’ (1958). The cast of this film consisted of Sulochana (Latkar), Ratnamala, Shahu Modak, Anant Kumar, Nana Palshikar and a host of mostly Marathi artistes plus an elephant named Ram Prasad.

When the talkie films era came to India, the early filmmakers tended to make films on folk tales and mythological stories in the first decade, i.e. 1931 to 1940. In the second decade of 1941 to 1950 many religious films were made. Some of them like ‘Ram Rajya’ (1943) being an all India blockbuster. And the third decade from 1951 to 1960 achieved the peak for mythological films made, worth calling it ‘The Golden Period of Religious films’. As many as 124 such films were made in this decade. From 1961 to 1970 and 1971 to 1980 were ok, but 1980 onwards there was a decline in such films and mythological films became scarce except some dubbed films from the South, where such films are made even today regularly. The television became a competition to this as many dharmik serials were shown on TV.

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Blog Day :6592Post No. :20490

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

(Actresses whose name begin with the letter J)

In the first nine episodes of the series, we listed actresses whose names begin with the first nine 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.

We managed to find “new” actresses (whose name begin with the first nine letters of the alphabet) lip syncing in Asha Bhonsle’s voice for the first time in the blog. They were Anju Mahendru, Bhanupriya,Chandrakala,Divya Bharati, Ekta,Farheen,Gulnar Irani,Harsha Mehra and Isha Koppikar.

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Blog Day :6591Post No. :20489Movie Count :5249

Hullo Atuldom

‘Bahubali’ (2015) was followed by ‘Bahubali- The Conclusion’ (2017). It was re-released in 2025, to celebrate 10 years of ‘Bahubali’, with the two parts combined and was called ‘Bahubali- The Epic’.

‘KGF – Chapter 1’ released in 2018; ‘KGF – Chapter 2’ came in 2022 and apparently a sequel to ‘Chapter 2’ titled ‘KGF – Chapter 3’ that was teased into the second film is in developmental stage.

The above two films along with ‘Pushpa’ and its sequels are all made in South India and were released simultaneously across India, dubbed into all possible Indian languages and were also well-accepted by the audiences. 

(I have not seen the above films, don’t feel like seeing them too.)

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Blog Day :6591Post No. :20488Movie Count :5248

‘Badi Maa’ (1974) was produced by GD Agarwal and directed by Ram Gabale. The cast included Usha Kiran, Surekha, Dilip Raj, Purnima, Jagirdar, Karan Diwan, Gulab, Iftekhar, Shivraj, Chaman Puri, Rashid Khan, Johny Whisky, Krishnakant, Dr. Vasantrao Deshpande, SD Narang, Baby Guddi etc. Probably, the film had a restricted theatrical release as I have never heard of this film. The film is in black and white which indicates that it was a delayed film.

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Blog Day :6590Post No. :20487

Today’s song is from a social film ‘Garib’ (1942).

The film was made by National Studios, Bombay, which started after the closure of Sagar Movietone. Automatically, all the artists under contract with Sagar were transferred to National Studios. The film was directed by Ramchandra Thakur and the music was by Anil Biswas (7 songs) and Ashok Ghosh (5 songs). Lyrics were by Dr. Safdar ‘ Aah ‘ Sitapuri and Pt. Indra. 

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Blog Day :6589Post No. :20486

#The Decade of Seventies – 1971 – 1980 #
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‘Baghaawat-1972’ was directed by B. Vithhalacharya for ‘Sagar Films, Madras’. It was a ‘costume drama’ genre film. The cast of this movie had Jayalalitha, NT Ramarao, Devika, Rajnala, Prabhakar Reddy, Allu Ramalingaiah, Tyagraj, Hemlata, Raj Babu and others.

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Blog Day :6589Post No. :20485

There were some Hindi films which either flopped or just made it to be the average performers at the box office after they had theatrical release. But over the years, they have attained the status of cult classics. The films in my minds are, Chetan Anand’s ‘Neecha Nagar’ (1946) for pioneering the parallel cinema, Raj Kapoor’s ‘Jaagte Raho’ (1956) for its social commentary, Guru Dutt’s ‘Kaagaz Ke Phool’ (1959) for its cinematic style, Dev Anand’s ‘Guide’ (1965) for its progressive themes, Raj Kapoor’s ‘Mera Naam Joker’ (1970) for its philosophical depth and ‘Jaane Bhi Do Yaaron’ (1983) for raising a couple of serious issues facing the country in a satirical way. The list is not exhaustive. I also feel that I should add ‘Shakti’ (1982) in this list for the powerful performances of Dilip Kumar and Amitabh Bachchan as father and son, respectively who are in the opposite side of the law.

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Blog Day :6588Post No. :20484

Today’s song is from a flop, obscure film, with a good star cast – ‘Garibi’ (1949).

Based on overall rating, there are 3 types of films…. 
1) Memorable Films – due to powerful story, acting, direction or music.
2) Films refreshed by memory when referenced in later years – films popular or hit for a short period and then forgotten till referenced in later years.
3) Totally forgettable films – from day one, due to poor/weak/unbelievable story, direction, music or outdated theme.Top actors, directors or MDs also can not save the film.

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Blog Day :6588Post No. :20483

Kamsune/Unsune songs of Asha Bhosle – 117

“Oy Chori Chori Chupke Chupke” in the voice of Asha Bhosle is written by Anand Bakshi and composed by Laxmikant Pyarelal for the film ‘Badlaa’ (1974).

‘Badlaa’ was produced by R.C. Kumar for Century Films, Bombay. It was directed by Vijay, who also wrote this movie. It had Shatrughan Sinha, Moushumi Chatterjee, Ajit, Johny Walker, supported by Padma Khanna, Alka, Shetty, Mohan Choti, Maruti, Bhagwan, Keshav Rana, Ram Mohan, Sabina, Mohan Sherry, Kamal Deep, Mac Mohan, V Gopal, Johny Bakshi, Desh, CS Dubey and Mehmood. Nirupa Roy, Arun Irani, Anwar Hussain, Paintal, Sujit Kumar, Shyama, Madan Puri, Harindranath Chattopadhyay, Iftikhar, Sudhir, Raj Mehra, Randhir, Jayshree T, Meena T, Shefali and Kajal make guest appearances in this movie

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Blog Day :6588Post No. :20482Movie Count :5247

Hullo Atuldom

‘Shabd’ (2005) was a psychological, art film produced by Pritish Nandy & his daughter Rangita Pritish Nandy with story, screenplay & direction by Leena Yadav. Leena’s husband Aseem Bajaj was the cinematographer of the film. The dialogue was by Sutapa Sikdar who’s husband was (late) Irfan Khan. Vishal (Dadlani) and Shekhar (Ravijani) were the music directors for songs written by Irshad Kamil & Vishal Dadlani. The film got good reviews but performed below expectations at the box office, despite being profitable. The story is adapted from the critically acclaimed Malayalam film ‘Rachana’ released in 1983.

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