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This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, 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.

During 1945-47, Hindi film industry went through a difficult phase. The speculative gains made by some businessmen during the period of WWII which were partly chanellised in the film industry, dried up which affected the film production. When the film industry was just recovering from the after effect of WWII, communal riots broke out on the eve of as well as following the partition, affecting film productions at Bombay (Mumbai)whereas Lahore film industry was badly affected as many film financiers and technicians migrated to India.
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In India, we are often required to attend get togethers (formal/ officials as well as informal/ unofficial etc). Singing of a few film songs is almost always a part of these gatherings, which are sung by enthusiastic singers and their performances are followed by polite clappings.

The songs that are sung on these gatherings are mostly from the golden era originally sung by legends. I often think of that era when these legends were still around me. I would often imagine a gathering where songs were sung not by the enthusiastic singers but by the singers who originally sang these songs. Just imagine participating in a programme where Rafi songs are being sung live by none other than Rafi himself !
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This article is written by Raja, 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.

It is that time of year.

Another year comes along, another 31st of July comes along – and once again, we remember, and pay tribute, to the one and only Rafisaab on this date.
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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.

Today’s(31 july 2017) Monday song is ” Hey Shankar Pralayankar ” by Mohd. Rafi from the film HANUMAN PATAAL VIJAY-1951. The film was made by Basant Pictures of Homi Wadia. The producer and director was also Homi Wadia-the younger of the Wadia Brothers- and the music was by S N Tripathi.
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“Nisbat”(1949) was directed by S Shamsuddin for Hindustan Art Productions, Bombay. This social movie had Yakoob, Munawwar Sultana, Mirza Musharraf, S Mazhar, Baby Zubeida, H Prakash, Sofia, Jillo etc in it.
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“Naya Aadmi”(1956) was produced by M Somasundaram and directed by Jupiter Pictures, Madras. This movie was basically a dubbed movie where the dialogues as well as songs were re recorded in Hindi. The movie had Anjali Devi, N T Ramarao, Jamuna, Ram Sharma, Raagini, Anwar Hussain, RajaSulochana, Gope, Helen, R Nagendra Rao etc in it.
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“Missing the beloved” cum “separation” song form quite important genre of songs in Hindi movies. This blog has close to three hundred songs that fall under this category of “missing the beloved”.
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“Al Hilal”(1958) is a well known movie for us in this blog becuae of its iconic qawwaali which was the subject of the 5000th post on this blog.
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“Maan”(1954) was produced by Rajendra Jain and directed by Safdar Aah Sitapuri for Filmkaar Limited, Bombay. This cosume drama had Chitra, Ajit, Jageerdaar, Kumar, Achla Sachdev, Yashodhara Katju, Kamlesh Kumari, Chandabai, Durga Khote etc in it.
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“Shirin Farhad”(1945) was directed by Prahlad Dutt for Pancholi Art Pictures, Lahore. The movie had Raagini, Jayant, Ghulam Mohamad, Gyani, Zahoor Shah, Ata, Ishaq, Nafees Begam, Wazir Begam etc in it.
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