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This article is the 12500th song post in the blog.
The most common milestone in this blog is the blog century milestone. We have so far had 124 of them. This writeup today marks the 125th century of the blog. In other words, this writeup is the 12500th writeup in the blog. This is a nice round figure which happend to be one fourth of 50,000 or one eighth of 1,00,000. 🙂
Our blog centuries are no longer that simple, though. We tend to combine such centuries with some more important milestones/ landmarks. This post is no exception. At the same time, this writeup could well be special because it marks quite a few special milestones, and several of them may come as surprise even to our regulars.
For one, another movie makes its debut in the blog with this song. This movie “Jungle Ki Duniya”(1959) happens to be the 3500th movie to find representation in the blog. So, the ongoing blog project of introducing “new” movies to the blog reaches a nice round figure of 3500.
That is not all. This movie happens to be the 100th movie of 1959 to get introduced in the blog. So one can say that the year 1959 now has a round figure of 100 movies represented in the blog. 1959 becomes the first year that now has 100 movies in the blog. Other years that may soon join this exclusive century club are 1960 (96 movies), 1961 (96 movies) and 1955 (95 movies).
Some more century milestones are associated with this song. But before discussing them, I would like to take this opportunity to discuss some interesting statistics. These statistics will give us an overview of what we have achieved and where we stand vis a vis the overall HFM scenario.
As always, I have taken the five decades beginning from 1931 and ending with 1980. There are songs in the blog that are from the years after 1980s as well as from years before 1931, but their discussion is more by chance rather than by design and they do not form part of this discussion.
———————————– The first decade (1931 to 1940)
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It was from 1931 that movies began to talk and they began to talk in different languages. The first Indian talkie movie talked in “Hindi/ Hindustani”. Hindi as well as other Indian language movies talked as well as sang. And the songs in these talkies are the topic of interest to us.
The songs of earlier movies could be heard only while watching the movie. Their records were not made. Majority of these movies are no longer in existence. So the songs contained in these movies are lost for ever.
My table for the first decade shows that around 915 Hindi movies were released in this decade and they had some 9000 odd songs in them. Our of these movies, 143 movies (336 songs) are represented in the blog and they constitute bulk of movies and songs of that decade that are available. My estimate is that around 30 odd more movies of this decade may ultimately find representation in the blog. Remaining movies – a whopping 750 odd movies and their songs are lost for ever. Overall, nearly 8500 songs of the first decade are lost for ever, and only around 400 odd songs from this decade are still available.
————————– Movies from 1931-1940
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S N
Year
Total movies released (songs )
Total movies represented in blog (song)
Balance movies unrepresented (songs)
Balance movies likely to find representation in future
1
1931
24
1 (1)
23
zero
2
1932
61
3 (7)
58
1
3
1933
76
9 (34)
67
zero
4
1934
120
11 (29)
109
zero
5
1935
152
15 (38)
137
3
6
1936
134
26 (43)
108
7
7
1937
101
20 (51)
81
4
8
1938
88
20 (46)
68
4
9
1939
80
18 (36)
62
5
10
1940
79
20 (51)
59
8
Total for decade
Decade of 1931-40
915 movies( 9000 songs )
143 movies( 336 songs)
772 movies (songs)
32 movies
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The second decade (1941 to 1950)
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Availability of movies as well as records improved a great deal by the time this decade arrived. 1189 movies (containing 10266 songs) were relesed during this decade. Out of them 540 movies (2296 songs) are represented in the blog. 649 movies are not yet represented in the blog from this decade. My guess is that songs of some 200 odd movies out of these 649 should be available. Around 450 movies of this decade along with their songs may have been lost for ever.
So one can say that about 750 + 450= 1200 movies from the first two decades of HFM are lost for ever and these movies are unlikely to find representation in the blog in future.
————————– Movies from 1941-1950
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S N
Year
Total movies released (songs )
Total movies represented in blog (song)
Balance movies unrepresented (songs)
Balance movies likely to find representation in future
1
1941
75 movies
28 (99)
47 movies
2
1942
98
33 (144)
65
3
1943
104
45 (184)
59
4
1944
86
40 (153)
46
5
1945
74
40 (140)
34
6
1946
153
63 (201)
90
7
1947
181
69 (269)
112
8
1948
149
66 (285)
83
9
1949
156
86 (451)
70
10
1950
113
70 (379)
43
Total for decade
Decade of 1941-50
1189 movies( 10266 songs )
540 movies( 2296 songs)
649 movies (songs)
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The third decade (1951 to 1960)
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1108 movies (containing 8654 songs) were released in this decade. 866 movies( contaings 4091 songs) are already represented in the blog. Out of the balance 142 as yet unrepresented movies, a good number of movies may yet find represntation in the blog. My rough guess is that about 100 of these movies may ultimately turn out to be unavailable alongwith their songs.
1959, the year with 100 movies represented now has as many as 468 songs represented in the blog (out of 803). It is a record for a year in the blog. Forty out of these 100 movies are already YIPPEED.
This decade is easily the most well represented decade in the blog. Nearly one third of all the songs in the blog are from this decade.
————————– Movies from 1951-1960
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S N
Year
Total movies released (songs )
Total movies represented in blog (song)
Balance movies unrepresented (songs)
Balance movies likely to find representation in future
1
1951
97 movies
73 movies(375)
24 movies
2
1952
105 movies
73 (376)
28 movies
3
1953
98
83 (433)
15
4
1954
117 movies
84 (422)
33
5
1955
120
95 (410)
25
6
1956
120
87 (393)
33
7
1957
113
85 (410)
28
8
1958
115
91 (400)
24
9
1959
112
99 (467)
14
10
1960
111
96 (408)
15
Total for decade
Decade of 1951-60
1108 movies(8654 songs )
866 movies( 4091 songs)
142 movies (songs)
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The fourth decade (1961 to 1970)
————————————
This decade is the second most well represented decade in the blog. This decade had 6275 songs from 929 movies. The blog has 3216 songs (from 759 movies). So 170 movies of this decade are not yet represented in the blog. My rough estimate is that 100 of these movies may turn out to be unrepresented in the blog even in future.
————————– Movies from 1961-1970
————————–
S N
Year
Total movies released (songs )
Total movies represented in blog (song)
Balance movies unrepresented (songs)
Balance movies likely to find representation in future
1
1961
104 movies
96 movies(408)
8 movies
2
1962
93 movies
77 (332)
16 movies
3
1963
89 movies
71 (320)
18
4
1964
99 movies
79 (391)
20
5
1965
90
72 (322)
18
6
1966
103
87 (367)
16
7
1967
83
62 (290)
21
8
1968
72
55 (267)
17
9
1969
98
71 (271)
17
10
1970
98
73 (248)
25
Total for decade
Decade of 1961-70
929 movies(6275 songs )
759 movies( 3216 songs)
170 movies
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The fifth decade (1971 to 1980)
———————————–
The fifth decade, which is regarded as the final decade of the golden era of HFM had 6295 movies from 1234 movies released in this decade. As many as 684 movies of this decade are represented in the blog with 1804 songs.
So one can see that 550 movies of this decade are not yet represented in the blog.
————————– Movies from 1971-1980
————————–
S N
Year
Total movies released (songs )
Total movies represented in blog (song)
Balance movies unrepresented (songs)
Balance movies likely to find representation in future
1
1971
115 movies (652 songs)
89 movies(299 songs)
24 movies
2
1972
130 movies (694 songs)
78 (215)
52 movies
3
1973
129 movies (702 songs)
83 (229)
46 movies
4
1974
132 movies (627 songs)
78 (196)
54 movies
5
1975
119 movies (568 songs)
70 (178)
49 movies
6
1976
104 (554 soongs)
56 (139)
48 movies
7
1977
134 (695 songs)
65 (159)
69 movies
8
1978
115 (558 songs)
55 (116 songs)(267)
60 movies
9
1979
113 (578 songs)
52 (154)
61 movies
10
1980
143 (647 songs)
58 (119)
85 movies
Total for decade
Decade of 1961-70
1234 movies(6295 songs )
684 movies( 1804 songs)
550 movies
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Summary
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The above figures are for movies attributed to various years. HFGK also has list of movies whose years are not known and which are shown in appendices.
Total number of movies in the five decades add up to 5373 movies (40736 songs). If we add up the movies in the appendics then the figure adds up to 5664 movies(44000 songs approximately).
Total number of movies represented in the blog are 3500. If 5664 movies are there then it means that 2164 movies are not yet represented in the blog. Considering that as many as 1500 movies and their songs are not available according to my estimates, it follows that only about 564 or so movies are likely to be available. So it means that we may at the most hope to add another 500 or more movies to the blog. If my estimate is on the conservative side and let us say that an additional 500 number of movies should be available then it means that we will be able to add may be 1000 plus movies of the golden era to the blog in future.
My estimate is that around 12000 additional songs from the golden era are available that are not yet posted in the blog. So it means that we will be able to add another 12000 songs to the blog and end up at a final tally of around 25000 songs. At present we have just over 800 YIPPEED movies and we may be able to have around 2000 YIPPEED movies among the 4000 or so movies that this blog will ultimately have.
The above is my guess and this guess may ultimately undergo some revisions when we go into further details.
Coming to the song to mark the occasion, this song is from an obscure movie called “Jungle Ki Duniya”(1959). This obscure B grade movie was produced by C J Kansara and directed by B N Chauhan for Swastik Chitramala, Bombay. The movie had Indira, Baburao Pahalwan, Habeeb, Kailash Kumari, Umesh Sharma, Hira Sawant, Nirmal Kumar, Kesri, Prithvi, Rekha Sharma, Zippy, H Ramesh, C Madhu, C Vijay, D D Nautiyal, Sheikh etc in it.
This song is a solo song sung by Snehlata Tare. Lyrics are penned by Shriram Farrukhabadi and music is composed by Jugal Bannerji. All of them are unheard of names. In fact, the singer, the lyricist as well as the music director- each one of them make his/her respective debuts in the blog with this song.
And that is not all. The singer happens to be the 700th singer in the blog. The lyricist is the 600th lyricist in the blog. The music director is the 400th music director for the blog.
So, this song achieves several far fatched centuries as well as some some not so far fetched centuries.
With this song, now we are 12500 songs old, and we may well be at the half way stage in the life of this blog, if my estimate as given earlier is correct.
I take this opportunity to thank all our visitors, regualrs, contributors and other well wishers whose encouragements in one for or the other have ensured that this blog is going on and on and is achieving some interesting milestones along the way. 🙂
I take this opportunity to wish everyone a very happy and safe and prosperous Deepaawali and new year as well.
Song-Naachoon main jhoom jhoom (Jungle Ki Duniya)(1959) Singers-Snehlata Nare, Lyrics-Shriram Farrukhabadi, MD-Jugal Bannerji
Lyrics
hoye
naachoon main
naachoon main jhoom jhoom
kismat ko choom choom
din hai khushi ka
mausam suhaana
nikla hai
nikla hai chanda
baadal ki ot se
taaron ne chheda dilkash taraana
naachoon main jhoom jhoom
mast hawaayen
rangeen fizaayen
mast hawaayen
rangeen fizaayen
baanki adaayen
kisi ko bulaayen
baanki adaayen
kisi ko bulaayen
kisi ko bulaayen
main bhi na jaanoon
chupke se aake
loota hai kisne dil ka khazaana
naachoon main jhoom jhoom
tu bhi to ga le
khushiyaan mana le
tu bhi to ga le
khushiyaan mana le
mehfil saja le
o dilwaale
mehfil saja le
o dilwaale
o dilwaale
karna jo kar le aaj deewaane
aaye na shaayad phir ye zamaana
naachoon main jhoom jhoom
kismat ko choom choom
din hai khushi ka
mausam suhaana
nikla hai chanda
baadal ki ot se
taaron ne chheda dilkash taraana
naachoon main jhoom jhoom
Many Congratulations on this post.
I have lost count of the century celebrations in the post. Amazing indeed.
The subscribers to the blog stands at 1999. I was expecting it reach 2000 with this post.
Wow! What a post! So many interesting details about the macro-environment (i.e overall industry) and our blog’s footprint so far. Always good to keep things in perspective.
Thoroughly enjoyed reading this post, Atul. A few observations, based on initial reading (will read it again, and more thoughts might come up):
1) The most staggering statistic for me here is that we have introduced 700 singers, 600 lyricists and 400 composers in this blog! The mind boggles! Any idea how many there are in these categories, in all?
2) Wondering why you feel there might be 100 films of the 60s decade where we might not get songs at all? That’s not that old a decade, no? You think they are lost forever?
3) In your stats, are we counting unreleased films, or only films that got released, but for some reason, the film and/or music is not available?
4) Am guessing even if we’re at the half-way mark at 12500, the remaining half is going to be a more challenging journe. Like mountain-climbing. But the fun is in the journey, so I’m all for it. 🙂 And together we will make it happen. Hopefully go beyond 25000 too.
5) I have a suggestion. If possible, why not have a “List of movies not covered”? Or just include these movie names also in our current list (rename it to “List of songs, by movie”). One issue with this might be that the list becomes too long and maybe unwieldy to search, especially on a slow connection. Anyway, it is just an idea! 🙂
More later. This post gives food for thought.
And yes, happy Diwali to you and to all readers of this blog.
It just struck me that the suggestion above (point 5) might be a lot of extra work. In that case, please just forget it. 🙂 We’re doing just fine the way we are. 🙂
As per statistics for 1951, 24 films are yet to be represented in the Blog. You have indicated that the chances of the balance movies to be represented in the Blog is zero. I have checked on YT and I find that there are songs from 7 unrepresented films of 1951 that are available. The films are:
1. Deepak
2. Hanuman Patal Vijay
3. Ishwar Bhakti
4. Johari
5. Lav Kush
6. Shri Krishna Satyabhama
7. Simba
Now it would be great to find out which test inning had the largest number of batsmen scoring centuries. That would be an interesting analogy for comparison. 🙂 🙂
Congratulations, Atul ji , for not only these Centuries, but also for your painstaking collection of statistics. Must have needed atleast few days’
untiring wrok ! Only a person with junoon/passion could have done it !
Thanks for injecting this fever in the blood of all regulars. We all now think alike for the Blog !
Atulji,
aapne to diwali ke is subh avsar per shatako ke deep jala diye(pun intended)
deep se deep jalaate raho
prem ki ganga bahaate raho
raah me jo aaye deep naye
usko bhi saath liye chalo!!!
Snehlata Nare apart from 5 songs in Jungle Ki Duniya (1959)
Gokul Ka Raja (1954) Shridhar Parsekar Y N Joshi
Aayo Main Aayo Ri Radhike
Holi Ke Khel Khel Tu Sakhi with Mohantara Ajinkya
Raj Kumari (1955) Ajit Merchant Saraswati Kumar Deepak
Jiyo Jiyo Jiyo Chhaila Ho with Mohantara Ajinkya
Heartiest Congratulations Atul ji and congratulations to all associated with this blog.
Thanks for the statistical overview and Congratulations again on this great achievement 12500 songs. As all members would like to put it, let us begin for a new journey onwards – afresh and together …
Wishing all a very Happy Deepawali and a peaceful, prosperous, healthy New year ahead with lots of music 🙂
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October 28, 2016 at 11:45 pm
Atul ji,
Many Congratulations on this post.
I have lost count of the century celebrations in the post. Amazing indeed.
The subscribers to the blog stands at 1999. I was expecting it reach 2000 with this post.
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October 29, 2016 at 12:14 am
same here. i have lost count of centuries.
and my eye is also number of followers, visitors etc,
but number of movies touched 3500 with Prem Deewane
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