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300 days and after (1938) is a movie that few people are today aware of. Here is what Mr Arunkumar Deshmukh, our beloved inhouse encyclopaedia, has to say about this movie.
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“Laal E Yaman” (1933) was the first movie of JBH Wadia that he produced under his banner of Wadia Movietone. During the making of this movie, he attended a private music concert where he heard a 13 year old kid singing. He gave him the opportunity to sing a song in his movie. He was so pleased with the recording that he asked him to sing more songs in the movie and signed him up as an actor in the movie as well.
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This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular 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.

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Today we remember Feroze Nizami on the anniversary of his passing away. His familiar image in the minds of many people it that of a music director and composer. There are fabulous creations that stand testimony to his talents as a master of music. What is lesser known is the fact that Feroze Nizami Sb was a multi faceted and a multi talented personality. He was an exceptional singer himself, in the mold of classical singing. He was also a writer, and an acknowledged expert and teacher of music. His book, ‘Asraar e Mauseeqi’, a definitive work on classical music written in Urdu, remained a standard textbook on the subject in Punjab University (Lahore) for many decades. He was a regular contributor to newspapers and magazines, writing research papers and articles on music. In addition, he was very learned in the field of Sufi literature. Another book by him, ‘Sar-chasma e Hayaat’, is a famous and oft referred work on this subject. He was well learned in the fields of Homoeopathy, Philosophy, and yes, Hindu religion.
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This article is written by nahm, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular 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.

Divas of Hindi film music (3)
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The third song of the series is another duet from the film ” Rang Mahal ” (1948). The singers are Mohammad Rafi and Suraiyya. The film is making a debut in the blog with this song. The film’s cast is Suresh, Suraiyya, Shahnawaz, Lalita Pawar and Anant Marathe. Myswar.com is crediting all songs of this film to K. Datta and V. Balsara, as Music Directors, whereas the Excel sheet of Rafi songs has only the name of K. Datta. The lyricist is Shiv Kumar.
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This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular 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.

The year was 1935 and New Theatres’ ‘Devdas’ (1935) was making waves across Indian sub-continent with K L Saigal’s mesmerising songs. One of Bomaby’s film production companies, Sagar Movietone felt that it should also have an actor-singer of the caliber of K L Saigal to counter the ‘Saigal effect’. A film distributor brought a young and tall handsome lawyer to Bombay and arranged his meeting with Mehboob Khan, the director associated with Sagar Movietone. Mehboob Khan found qualities in this man which he felt could be an answer to K L Saigal. The name of that handsome lawyer was Surendra Nath Sharma better known in Hindi film industry as Surendra or Surendranath.
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This article is written by Arunkumar Deshmukh, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular 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.

This is the 7th song in the series,”The Great Souls of India”. It is from film BHAKTA SURDAS-1942 and is sung by Khursheed Bano.
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“Parineeta” (1953) was produced by Ashok Kumar and directed by Bimal Roy. The movie was based on Sharat Chandra Chattopadhyay’s novel of the same name. The movie had Asit Baran, Nazeer Hussain, Baby Sheela, Badri Prasad, Protima Devi, Rekha, Manju, Manorama, S Bannerjee, Om Prakash, Samar Chatterjee, Colin Pal, Gunjan, Radheshyam, Bhupen Kapoor, Vikram Kapoor, Baby Rehana etc in it.
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“Chaand” (1944) was a Prabhat Film Company production. It was directed by D D Kashyap. The movie had Prem Adeeb, Begum Para, Sitara Devi, Sapru, Master Balakram, Ram Singh, Vatsala etc in it.
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This article is written by Arunkumar Deshmukh, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular 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.

This is a song from Sagar Movietone’s film ” Service Ltd”-39. It was a social cum crime cum mystery cum comedy film directed by Chimanlal Luhar, a well known director of those times. The music was by Anupam Ghatak, Lyricists were Zia Sarhadi and Pt.Indra and the cast included Surendra, Maya Banerjee, Bibbo, Yakub, Kayam Ali, Bhudo, Sankatha and other Sagars regulars.
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“Baap Re Baap” (1955) was produced and directed by A R Kardar. The movie had Smriti Biswas, Kishore Kumar, Jayant, Ulhas, Maruti, Leela Misra, Chand Usmani, Banerji etc in it.
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