Archive for March 2013
“Nargis” (1946), an obscure movie by now, had Nargis, Shahnawaz, Alka Achrekar, Pratima Devi , Rehman, David, Amirbai Karnataki, Bhagwan, Tabassum etc in it.
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Ae dard zara dam le
Posted on: March 24, 2013
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Rajkumari and Amirbai Karnataki were among the leading female playback singers of 1930s and 40s. Both of them started their filmy careers around 1934-35 and also acted and sang songs in the films on themselves. Curiosity led me to check as to who had sung more Hindi film songs among them. So I checked the number of Hindi film songs sung by Amirbai Karnataki and Rajkumari during their careers from http://www.myswar.com. Since this website gives the details of songs only from the year 1941 onward, it was not possible to get the total number of songs sung by them in their entire filmy careers. Nonetheless, I felt that within this limitation, one should get a fair assessment of their contributions to Hindi film songs. As per these data, Amirbai Karnataki sang a total (solo, duets etc) number of 302 songs while Rajkumari sang a total of 387 songs during 1941 and onward. On this basis, I would guess that Rajkumari may have sung more Hindi film songs then Amirbai Karnataki.
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Mere dil se aa ke lipat gayee
Posted on: March 23, 2013
This article is written by nahm, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
This is the Rafi-Asha duet recorded for Neela Akash(1965) but not used in the movie. It is a shame that such a song could not find place in the movie and was relegated to anonymity. Some might say that the other songs used in the film were better than this so this was edged out. But I do not agree.
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Sach sach sach o dear sach sach
Posted on: March 23, 2013
Though most Hindi movies of 1950s and 1960s had “mainstream” story lines, but a few comedy movies too were produced during that era. Quite a few of these movies had Kishore Kumar in the lead roles. Then there were some other actors who too were making their marks as comedy actors. I S Johar was one such actor.
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Shaam huyi o panchhi aa
Posted on: March 23, 2013
“Maa Baap” (1944) had Nazir Khan, Veena, Rajkumari Shukla, Yakub in it. One song from this by now obscure movie has been discussed in the past.
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“Nargis” (1946), an obscure movie by now, had Nargis, Shahnawaz, Alka Achrekar, Pratima Devi , Rehman, David, Amirbai Karnataki, Bhagwan, Tabassum etc in it.
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Maan na kar ab sajni
Posted on: March 23, 2013
“Aandhi” (1940) is by now a forgotten movie. Pankaj Mullick, Molina Devi and K C Dey were the lead actors in this movie.
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O goriye o poriye o chhoriye
Posted on: March 22, 2013
“Madam XYZ” (1959) was a Neo Lite Films production. It was directed by Nanabhai Bhatt. The movie had Bhagwan, Suresh, Shakila, Nalini Chonker, Shammi, Sudesh, Purnima, Kumar, Manju, David Abraham, Pran etc in it.
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Pyaar wo shai hai ae mere yaaron
Posted on: March 22, 2013
This article is written by nahm, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Here comes a party song, performed by Mehmood in the film “Neela Aakash”” (1965). All songs of this movie are marvellous, including the one removed/unused from the film. I will come to that song in the next post.
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Mat kar saaj singaar sundari
Posted on: March 22, 2013
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Jagmohan Sursagar was known mostly for his non-filmy songs whether in Bengali or Hindi. After the success of his songs in ‘Meghdoot’ (1945), he collaborated with Faiyyaz Hashmi and Kamal Das Gupta for recording many non-filmy Hindi songs which became very popular. Faiyyaz Hashmi was a full time employee of EMI (HMV) at Calcutta. After bifurcation of British India, Faiyyaz Hashmi was transferred to Dhaka in 1947 and to Lahore a year thereafter to strengthen the office which was affected by the migration of many of its artists to India. With this, the collaboration of these trios virtually came to an end. Thereafter, Jagmohan Sursagar recorded some more Hindi non-film songs with different lyricists such as B C Madhur, Madhuraj, Rajinder Krishan etc. But most of these songs are silent on the name of the composer. It is believed that during this period, Jagmohan himself may have composed the music for most of his non-filmy songs.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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