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In the 1940s, there were four main Hindi/Urdu/Hindusani movie producing centres in India, viz. Bombay (Mumbai), Calcutta (Kolkata), Lahore and Poona (Pune).

Bombay (Mumbai) had Ranjit Movietone, Calcutta (Kolkata), the New Theatres and Poona (Pune) had Prabhat Films as leading producers of Hindi/Urdu films. Lahore centre was dominated by Pancholi Art Pictures owned by Dalsukh Pancholi. He was also the owner of Lahore’s biggest film studio, Pancholi Art Studio during pre-independent period.
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“Bhimsen”(1950) was directed by Jayant Desai for Mohan Pictures, Bombay. The movie had Trilok Kapoor, Nirupa Roy, Ram Singh, Rewa Shankar, Narbada Shanker, B. M. Vyas, Murad, Durga Khote etc in it.
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“Usha Haran”(1949) was produced by Prakash and directed by Shanti Kumar. The movie had Aroon, Ulhas, Jeevan, Yashodhara Katju, Indu, Arvind, Ratnamala etc in it.
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“Majboor”(1948) was directed by Nazir Ajmeri for Bombay talkies. The star-cast had Munavvar Sultana and Shyam in lead roles and they were supported by Indu, Sohan Lal, Jagannath, Dar Kashmiri, Ganju, Shama Gulnar, Ameer Bano, Shivraj, Ram Shashtri, Lakshman Rao, Manto Bai etc.
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“Zindagi”(1976) was directed by Ravi Tandon for Vikram Movies International, Bombay. This social movie had Mala Sinha, Sanjeev Kumar, Vinod Mehra, Mausami Chatterji, Anil Dhawan, Aruna Irani, Rakesh Pandey, Alka, A K Hangal, Deven Verma, Manmohan, Yunus Parwez, Leela Mishra, Sajjan, Praveen Paul, Brahm Bhardwaj, Chaman Puri, Padmini Kolhapure, Master Abbas, H L Pardesi, Chandu, Vandana Shashtri, Vikas Anand, Baldev Trehan, Jerry Raja, Nitin , Hemant, and friendly apperances were made by Keshto Mukherji, Ifthikar and Vijay Dutt.
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“Anjangarh”(1948) was directed by Bimal Roy for New Theatres, Calcutta. This movie had Bipin Gupta, Ajay Kumar, Hiralal, Sunanda Devi, Rama Indu, Parulkar, Bhupendra Kapoor, Tulsi Chakraborty, Asit Sen, Jahar Roy etc in it.
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“Mehndi”(1947) was directed by Sibtain Fazli for Fazli Films, Bombay. The movie had Nargis, Begam Para, Murad, Ghori, Jillobai, Jaani babu, Protima Devi, Chacha Premi, Anwari, Zaki, Baby Shyama etc in it.
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This article is written by Peevesie’s mom, 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.

Hullo to all Atulwaasis

This post should have ideally appeared yesterday. But due to various reasons it remained unsent and the result is that we missed wishing a superstar who is first and foremost an actor; very versatile and untypecasted –much like the actor who we remembered on 6th November.
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“Aaiye” (1949) was directed by Yakoob for Indian Production, Bombay. This movie had Yakoob, Sulochana Chatterji, Masood, Ashraf Khan, Janki Das, Sheila Naik, Tasneem, Charlie, Wali Muhammad, Munshi Munaqqa, Abu Bakar, Saleem, Muhammad Ali, Gaffar, Mubarak Begam, Baby Mumtaz etc in it.
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Hindi talkies got their start in the 1930s. Hindi Film Music, which started with them, took their own time to find their bearings. Their transition phase lasted several years when they underwent many changes (some of them path breaking ones) before HFM finally found their feet and settled down and got consolidated by 1940s.

I regard this transition phase of Hindi film music as the phase where solid foundation was laid that paved the way for the take off stage for the golden period of Hindi film music of the 50s and 60s.
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