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This article is written by Avinash Scrapwala, 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 other sites without the knowledge and consent of the web administrator of atulsongaday.me, then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.

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6247 Post No. : 19320 Movie Count :

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#the Decade of Forties – 1941 – 1950 #
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(Debutant Movie- Batohi-1949)

I was specifically looking for a devotional song. While going through the Geet Kosh Volume –II (1941-1950), I come across this pleasant surprise which I am presenting here today.

I had come across this title ‘Batohi-बटोही’ in Geet Kosh (1941-1950) in the past under the list of Un-Released movies. (Those days the songs from this movie were not available on internet ).

Searching for word ‘‘Batohi-बटोही’ on this blog yields only one result. This word appears only in the famous song ‘kaun disaa mein leke chalaa re batohiyaa’ from “Nadiya Ke Paar”(1982)

Coming to the movie ‘Batohi-1949’, very less information is available about it in the Geet Kosh. The name of the director for this movie is not given. However some sources on internet mention the name of the director as Kumar Menon. He directed this movie for T.K. Screen Classics. The cast of this movie had Bharat Bhooshan, Indu Pal, Krishna Murari, Beena Pal, Kesari, Shivraj, Sapru and others.
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This article is written by Avinash Scrapwala, 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 other sites without the knowledge and consent of the web administrator of atulsongaday.me, then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.

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6240 Post No. : 19293

#the Decade of Sixties – 1961 – 1970 #
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(Lyricist Kavi Pradeep-34)
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Today(18 August 2025) is the last Monday of shraavan month in Southern India as well as parts of Central India. We have been presenting Shiv stuti songs on the blog ever since shraawan month commenced in Northern India and subsequently in Southern and Central parts of India. Shraawan is over in Northern parts and now it is getting over in Southern and Central parts of India as well. Today we present another song devoted to Lord Shiva.. This song is from the movie “Balram Shrikrishna-1968”.
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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 other sites without the knowledge and consent of the web administrator of atulsongaday.me, then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.

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6236 Post No. : 19280

Today’s song is from a Mythological story – Shuk Rambha-1953.

It was directed by an expert in such films – Dhirubhai Desai and the music was given by Manna Dey. Yes, you read it right. The MD of this film was Manna Dey. many playback singers secretly desired to become MDs, but only few dared and fewer still succeeded. It was a case of reverse too – like most MDs tried their hands at singing. Some dared and few succeeded.

It is seen that the human mind always craves for something done by his superiors, like actors wish to direct films, directors wish to produce films and producers want to direct films. Remember the Gujarati proverb- ” Jeno kaam teno thaay, bija kare so gotha khaay” ? ( जेनो काम तेनो थाय, बीजा करे सो गोता खाय ). Most artists wisely give up what they feel they are not skilled to do. Manna Dey, G.M.Durrani, S.D.Batish, Snehal Bhatkar, Amirbai Karnataki, Shanta Apte, Kishore Kumar and few others learnt the lesson in short time and went back to their real expertise field !
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This article is written by Avinash Scrapwala, 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 other sites without the knowledge and consent of the web administrator of atulsongaday.me, then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.

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6233 Post No. : 19271

#the Decade of Eighties – 1981 – 1990 #
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We have been presenting Shiv stuti songs on every Monday, right from the beginning of saawan maas. Saawan commenced one fortnight in advance in North India vis a vis central and southern parts of India. After Rakshabandhan, saawan is over in North India, but it still continues in central and southern parts of India.

The Monday of today (11 august 2025) is the fifth shraavan somvaar counting from the time saawan began in North India. However, it is the third shrawan somwar for the central-southern parts. This gives us another opportunity to have a shiv-stuti song here on the blog.

The song in this post is from the movie “Akhand Saubhaagyawati” directed by Rakesh Nahta for ‘Dhwani Prakash, Bombay’. He was also the producer of this movie. It had Reeta Bhaduri, Arvind Kumar, Kalpana Deewan, Chandrakant Pandya, Nalin Dave, Kanchan Mattu, Kamini Bhatiya, Krupadev Yanik, Javed Mishra, Chandrakant Thakkar, Vishnu Kumar Vyas, Master Bittoo and others. This movie ‘Akhand Saubhaagyawati’ was passed by Censor Board on 10.07.1981.
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This article is written by Avinash Scrapwala, 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 other sites without the knowledge and consent of the web administrator of atulsongaday.me, then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.

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6226 Post No. : 19249

#The Decade of Seventies – 1971 – 1980 #
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(Lyricist Kavi Pradeep-32)
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Today (4 August 2025) is the fourth Monday in the holy month of saawan in the northern parts of India. This is the last Monday of saawan in these parts and with that the month of saawan ends on 9th August with the festival of Rakshaabandhan. However, the month of saawan will continue in the southern parts of India.
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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 other sites without the knowledge and consent of the web administrator of atulsongaday.me, then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.

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6225 Post No. : 19245

The worlds of film songs and the NonFilm Songs are totally different. Of course there was a time when people went for only NFS, but 1) that time film song records were not available like today and 2) that was a long time ago i.e. during the late 1920s to the 1940s. The set of people who liked NFS and collected these records or songs has long gone behind the curtain of the time !

Most lovers of music today are barely aware of a NFS which once made music lovers mad in the last mid century. There is no blame as times change, so do the trends and likings. Today, even classical vocal music is also in the background. Ask any film music lover 5 names of classical singers and most can not tell you. Here also no blame This is how the world takes turns. Public tastes change as per availability, like the way people dressed in olden times and modern times.
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This article is written by Avinash Scrapwala, 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 other sites without the knowledge and consent of the web administrator of atulsongaday.me, then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.

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6219 Post No. : 19220

#the Decade of Seventies – 1971 – 1980 #
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(Lyricist Kavi Pradeep-29)
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Today (28 July 2025) is the third Monday of this year’s saawan month and in some parts of the country it is the first Monday of the holiest ‘saawan month. On this occasion here is a shiv-stutee bhajan from the movie ‘Har Har Mahadev-1974’. One song from this movie have already been posted on this blog earlier. Today I am presenting the second song from this movie.
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This article is written by Avinash Scrapwala, 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 other sites without the knowledge and consent of the web administrator of atulsongaday.me, then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.

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6212 Post No. : 19184

#The Decade of Fifties – 1951 – 1960 #
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Today is the second Monday of the Shraavan maas in the northern parts of our country. On this occasion here is a song praising Lord Shiva from the movie ‘Jai Mahaadev-1955’.

‘Jai Mahaadev-1955’ was a movie from the genre of mythological movies directed by Ramchandra Thakur for ‘K. Pictures, Bombay’. Ratilal Vora was the producer of this movie which was passed by the censor board on 25.03.1955. The cast of this movie had Nalini Jaywant, Trilok Kapoor, Mahipal, S.N. Tripathi, Meenakshi, Dar Kashmiri, Shyam Sundar, Jeevan, Revashankar, Indira Bansal, Pandey, Babu Raje, Sukumar, Heera Sawant, Bheem Bhai, Sachin Ghosh, Prabha Shankar, Mahimi, Deewan, Narbada Shankar, Chhannalal, Lalit Kapoor, Raj Sood, Ganpat Rao and others. Roopa Verman, Lalita Kumari, Umakant and Roopmala were the guest artistes for this movie.
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This article is written by Avinash Scrapwala, 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 other sites without the knowledge and consent of the web administrator of atulsongaday.me, then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.

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6199 Post No. : 19143

#The Decade of Fifties – 1951 – 1960 #

“Sant Raghu-1957” was directed by Chandrakant for Kanak Productions, Bombay. It was produced by M.K. Kapadia. The cast of ‘Sant Raghu’ included Nirupa Roy, Anant Kumar, Ulhas, Bipin Gupta, Lalita Pawar, S.N. Tripathi, Manorama, Babu Raje, Tuntun, Mouju, Radheshyam, Bhagwan Sinha, R.S. Dubey, Champak Lala, Sheela Vaz, Rajkumar, Amrit and others. This movie ‘Sant Raghu’, which was passed by Censor Board on 03.07.1957, has eight songs written by Bharat Vyas. The music for this movie was composed by Avinash Vyas. There were six singers viz. Lata Mangeshkar, Geeta Dutt, Mohd Rafi, Sulochana Vyas, Manna Dey and Asha Bhonsle who gave their voices to the songs in this movie.
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This article is written by Satyajit Rajurkar, 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 other sites without the knowledge and consent of the web administrator of atulsongaday.me, then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.

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6198 Post No. : 19141

Sharaafat’ was directed by Asit Sen for ‘Seven Arts Pictures, Bombay’. It had Ashok Kumar, Dharmendra, Hema Malini, Soniya Sahni, Jagdeep, Abhi Bhattacharya, Kanhaiyalal, Sapru, Shabnam, Zebunnisa, Roopesh Kumar, Indrani Mukherji, Sundar, Niranjan Sharma, Poornima, Paro Devi, Jankidas, Brahm Bharadwaj, Chandrima Bhaduri, Kundan, Kesho Rana, Mohan Choti, Birbal, Tun Tun, Raj Kishore, Ajay Kashmiri, Prakash Mishra, Machhar, Dilip Dutt, Ratan Gaurang, Wajid Khan, Ravikant, Shefali, Bilkis, Jagdish Bhalla and many others.
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