Archive for the ‘Calling the beloved’ Category
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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6299 | Post No. : | 19498 |
#the Decade of Seventies – 1971 – 1980 #
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Today 16th October 2025 is the seventy eighth birthday of actress Hema Malini. She was born on this day in the year 1948. We wish her a very happy birthday and a healthy and peaceful life ahead. During my growing years in the seventies to early eighties I get to watch many Hindi Films where Hema Malini was the lead actress. She was ruling the roost and she was given the nickname of Dream Girl of Hindi Cinema.
Today on the occasion of her birthday I was looking for a song from this decade 1971-1980. I had a song in mind but then I kept it aside. After changing my mind I started looking for a song where R.D. Burman was the composer of the movie. That led me to this song from the movie ‘Alibaba Aur 40 Chor-1980. So I was able to find a song from the seventies as planned.
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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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6234 | Post No. : | 19274 |
Kamsune/Unsune songs of Asha Bhosle – 37
The next song in the series is a rare haunting melody “Aa Devta Tu Apni” by Asha Bhosle. This song is from the suspense flick “Ab Kya Hoga” (1977). The song was written by Sawan Kumar Tak and composed by Usha Khanna.
The movie was produced and directed by Sawan Kumar Tak. It starred Shatrughan Sinha as Ram Sinha, Neetu Singh as Chitralekha, Asrani as Rajesh, Bindu, Moushumi Chatterjee (cameo), Ranjeet, Pinchoo Kapoor, Chand Usmani, Indrani Mukharjee, Jankidas, McMohan, etc
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Tumhaaree yaad mein o mere baalmaa
Posted on: July 29, 2025
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6220 | Post No. : | 19222 |
“Bandish” (1955) was directed by Satyen Bose for Basu Chitra Mandir, Bombay. The movie had Ashok Kumar, Meena Kumari, Daisy Irani(credited as Roop Kumar), Bipin Gupta, Sajjan, Nazir Hussain etc. Master Bhagwan made a Guest appearance in the movie and figured in one song.
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6211 | Post No. : | 19179 |
“Maa Ke Aansoo” (1959) was produced and direted by Dhirubhai Desai for Sharad Productions, Bombay. The movie had Hamid Ali Khan (better known as Ajit), Nalini Jaywant, Neelam, Lalita Pawar, Agha, Ajit Kumar etc. in it.
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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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6155 | Post No. : | 19010 |
Today’s song is from the film Gaon-1947. This was a film by Jamuna productions, Bombay and it was directed by Dwaraka Khosla. The music was by Khemchand Prakash. The lyrics were by D.N.Madhok. The cast was Karan Dewan, Indu, Mishra, Tiwari, Khaleel, Ram Singh, Leela, Anant, Shekhar and many others.
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Aao pardesee mere dwaar
Posted on: May 18, 2025
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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6148 | Post No. : | 18990 |
#the Decade of Forties – 1941 – 1950 #
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(Lyricist Kavi Pradeep-8)
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“Veeraanganaa-1947” was directed by Nandlal Jaswantlal for Laxmi Productions, Bombay. This was a movie from the genre of “historical” movies. The cast of this movie included Shobhana Samarth, Prem Adib, Jeewan, Prabha, Badri Prasad, Sankata Prasad, Shanta Patel, Kanta and others. This movie has eight songs as per Geet Kosh-Vol-II (1941-1950). Kavi Pradeep wrote the lyrics for the songs in this movie under the name of Miss Kamal. The singers’ names for all the individual songs are not mentioned against the songs of this movie. Hari Prasanna Das and Manna Dey were the two music directors for this movie. In Geet Kosh four songs are attributed to composer Hari Prasanna Das, so we can guess that the other songs are composed by Manna Dey.
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Tadap tadap kar aise aise
Posted on: May 1, 2025
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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6131 | Post No. : | 18959 |
Today’s song is from the film Usha Kiran-1952.
It had been just about 5 years since we got our Independence. The initial rush of Migration of Muslim artistes to Pakistan had slowed down, but it continued in a trickle till about early 1970s. The second line people who filled up these vacancies in the Hindi film industry were getting established by then.
One big issue came up and that was the backing out of those film financiers from film production, who had a lot of Black money made from the war years. It did have an impact on the number of films made, till new financiers showed up.
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Uthh jaa bijlee pyaaree
Posted on: March 21, 2025
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 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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6090 | Post No. : | 18891 |
Today, March 21, 2025, is the 111th birth anniversary of Agha who had over 5 decades of Hindi film career, predominantly in comedy genre. He was known for his comedy emerging from his late reactions which was inspired from an American actor, Edward Everette Horton as he had revealed in a TV programme hosted by Tabassum.
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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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5984 | Post No. : | 18665 |
Today’s song is from an Unique film – Sardar-1955.
The film is unique not because its story was different or due to its cast. It had not won any award also and it was not an extraordinarily successful film. Then what made it a unique film ?
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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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5947 | Post No. : | 18584 |
Today’s song is from the film Guru Ghantal-1956.
There was a film in 1937 also with the same title. The story of both the films were on similar lines. But do you know what the meaning of the word Guru Ghantal is ? I did not know, but I found out from a Hindi-English dictionary, published in 1889. This was compiled by ” The Rev. T.Craven, M.A.”, in Lucknow. Many years ago, I had a habit of roaming on the streets of big cities like Bombay, Delhi, Calcutta or even smaller cities like Poona, Lucknow or Hyderabad, in search of second hand old and rare books. I found this dictionary of Hindi-English-Hindi and Urdu-English-Urdu words for sale in Lucknow. It was quite a thick book and occupied considerable space in my suitcase. The book is extremely useful and I have to use it very carefully because, being so old-135 years- its pages have become brittle and delicate. It is one of my prized possessions !
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