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

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“Baarood”(1960) was produced and directed by Aspy Irani for Super pictures, Bombay. The movie had Sheikh Mukhtaar, Kumkum, Hiralal, Uma Dutt, Honey Irani etc in it.
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The second song in the series “Shankar-Jaikishen in the 50s” is a duet of Asha and Manna Dey from the film “Baaghi Sipaahi”(1958).

By 1955, with great efforts and difficulties, Shankar Jaikishan came out of the rigouring influence and control of Raj Kapoor on their music compositions. Now they were free to fly high and be the “Numero Uno “.
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“Bombay Mail”(1935) was directed by R P Bhatt for Prakash Pictures, Bombay. The movie had Panna, Rajkumari, Jayant, Lallubhai, Ismail, Raja Babu, S Nazir, Umakant etc in it.
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Let us today listen this haunting melody, a gem of a song, long lost undeservedly. I wonder why RonoDeb Mukherji, the music Director, faded after certainly an applaudable album of ‘Tu hi meri zindagi’ (1965).
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“Baarish”(1957) was produced by K H Kapadiya and directed by Shankar Mukherji for Alankar Chitra, Bombay. The movie had Dev Anand, Nutan, Lalita Pawar, Helen, Anwar Hussan, Nana Palsikar, Jagdish Sethi, Mehmood, Kumkum, Gope, Madan Puri, Kumud Tripathi etc in it.
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“Hathhkadi”(1958) was directed by Sudarshan Bhatia for D S Films. The movie had Motilal, Shakila, Sajjan, Jabeen Jaleel, Amarnath, Umesh S, Murad etc in it.
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This article is written by Arunkumar Deshmukh, 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 sites like lyricstrans.com and ibollywoodsongs.com etc then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.

We are starting a New Series from today- “Shankar-Jaikishen in the 50s”.

There was a Shankar-Jaikishan mania in the 50s and the 60s. They not only had popularity,versatility and flexibility but also unparallelled success. After Husnlal-Bhagatram, it was Shankar-Jaikishan pair who actually set the trend of composer duos in Hindi films. After Shankar-Jaikishan, no new solo composer, barring perhaps R D Burman,tasted such consistent success. Even R D Burman confessed that in the 1980s, he lost out to competition from duos everywhere.
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This article is the 11600th song post in the blog.

We in this blog discuss songs ranging mostly from 1931 to 1980s and sometimes from songs falling outside this range as well. One can often judge the era of the song by listening to it. Sometimes the lyrics of the song deal with some important happenings of the era as well.
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Hindi film songs have been influenced by music from various genres. That is good. Some songs are ‘inspired’- a euphemism for generously borrowing. Well, it should have been better effort. Some after getting inspiration are better than the original pieces. That is something. I would cite ‘Kaun hai jo sapnon me aya..’ from ‘Jhuk Gaya Asmaan’ which was inspired by Elvis Presely’s ‘Marguerita’
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This article is written by Bharat Upadhyay, 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 sites like lyricstrans.com and ibollywoodsongs.com etc then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.

Sureeli Suman – 3
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Since I have many non-film geet, gazals and devotionals of Sumanji, I will be alternating them with her film songs in this series ‘Sureeli Suman’.
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