Archive for the ‘Ameerbai Karnataki solo’ Category
“Ham Ek Hain” (1946) is movie which was a Prabhat Film Company Production. It was directed by P L Santoshi. This movie introduced several new names to Indian moviegoers. Names like Dev Anand, Rehman and Rehana made their debuts with this movie.
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“Leela” (1947) is an obscure movie by now. Little information is available about this movie.
I have discussed one song from this movie in the past. Here is another song from the movie.
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Just now I came across a fantastic duet song from the era gone by. What a delightful song ! A song like this can magically transport the listeners back in time to those days, even if those days happened to be days before many of us were even born.
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“Ek Din Ka Sultan” (1945) is by now an obscure movie. This movie had Ghulam Mohammad, Mehtab, Wasti, Sadiq Ali etc in lead roles.
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“Seedha Rasta” (1947) was a movie produced by Prabhat Film company. This movie has Shahu Modak and Kamla Kotnis in lead roles.
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Jeewan jyoti bujhti jaaye
Posted on: December 30, 2011
In Hindi movies, a female character singing a bhajan in front of the idol of a God used to be a standard scene from 1950s to 1970s. I have always wondered who pioneered this genre of songs. Now I believe that I have got my answer. Having watched a few such songs from the earlier days of Hindi movies, I have now come to the conclusion that Amirbai Karnataki could well be the first singer to sing such bhajans as well as the first actress to enact them on screen.
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“Shikaari” (1946) is a movie which had Ashok Kumar, Paro, Veera, Ram Shukul, Leela Mishra etc in it. This song was one of the earliest movies of S D Burman as a music director and this movie had some nice songs in it.
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Chanda des piyaa ke jaa
Posted on: December 27, 2011
“Bharthari” (1944) is a movie that I became aware of when I discovered a wonderful song from this movie and discussed it in this blog. No information of any sort was available on this movie on internet till then. But our in house encyclopaedia, Mr Arunkumar Deshmukh had exhaustive information about him which he shared with us in his comments to that post.
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