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

Archive for January 2013


This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.

In the sphere of Geeta Dutt’s non-filmy songs (NFS), I was aware of only one of her songs hauley hauley hawaayen doley during my younger days, thanks to the radio. Much later, I had bought 78 RPM record of this NFS sometime in early 70s. If I remember correctly, this record had ‘jamuna ke teer kaanhaa aao’ on the other side. So I became aware of one more NFS of her. Probably those days of early 50s, the singers will have to sing at least two NFS songs to bring out one 78 RPM record. With the advent of internet, we have access to some more of her NFS based on which I have a feeling that compared with other playback singers of her time like Lata Mangeshkar, Asha Bhonsle, Mohammed Rafi, Talat Mehmood, Mukesh, Manna Dey etc, she has cut comparatively very few Hindi NFS discs. I found that none of her NFS other than the two I referred to above, were known to me though they are beautifully rendered by her. I have recently heard ‘ye hawaa ye fizaa ye bahaaren’ composed by V Balsara and I liked it very much.
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“Do Jasoos” (1975) was a Dimple Films production. It was produced and directed by Naresh Kumar. The movie had Raj Kapoor, Rajendra Kumar, Shailendra singh, Bhavna Bhatt, Kamal Kapoor, Prem Chopra,Aruna Irani,Asit Sen,Appi Umrani, Ram Mohan, Manmohan Krishna, Dulari, Farida Jalal,Shakti Kapoor, Jagdish Raj etc in it, with Raj Kapoor and Rajendra Kumar, the ageing stars of the previous generation playing the title roles.
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This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.

Wow, and what a wonderfully melodious gem this one turns out to be. And an absolutely fantastic Rafi – Asha duet. In fact this was actually the song that I had prepared for posting yesterday, in the run up to the 300th Rafi – Asha duet and 200th song by Qamar Jalaalabaadi. Almost at the last moment, I got this message from Atul ji, requesting me to post the ‘Baaje Waala, Patiaayaale Waala’ instead. And so I switched the songs. And as I had the lyrics all ready to go, I am posting this as one of the songs to welcome in the new year. The melody and the tempo of music is so uplifting, it is a befitting piece of music to play on a celebration like today.
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This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.

gayaa december, jaane do
aayee january, aane do

Thus ended my last post from yesterday, and I suppose it is only right to begin on the very same note, where we left off. . . last year :).

Greetings all and welcome to 2013, and we kick off another round of this adventure in music.
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