Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs

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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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6516 Post No. : 20262

Today’s song is from a 72 year old social film-Parichay-1954.

Film Parichay-54 was produced by Radheshyam Jhunjhunwala under the banner of J.J.Films, Bombay and it was directed by Satyen Bose, whose famous film “Jagriti “- 54 was also censored in the same month. Film “Parichay” was released in Opera House,Bombay on 17-12-54, whereas Filmistan released their film Jagriti in “Naaz”, Bombay on 11-2-55. The cast of film Parichay was Shashikala, Abhi Bhattacharya, Pranoti Ghosh ( later married to Abhi Bhattacharya), Sajjan, Zebunnisa,Panchotiya, Shakuntala, Indira Chitnis, Dhumal etc etc.
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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 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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6515 Post No. : 20260

‘Chhupa Rustam’ (1965) was an obscure film, produced by H S Khanna and was directed by Akkoo. The cast included Chitra, Azaad, Habib, Indira Bansal, Majnu, Maqbool, Sheikh, Arvind Kumar, Aruna, Khursheed, Uma Khosla etc.
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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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6512 Post No. : 20248

#the Decade of Sixties – 1961 – 1970 #

I discovered this blog in the year 2009 while searching for songs penned by Sahir Ludhianvi. My first comment on this blog was on the song ‘kashtee kaa khaamosh safar hai’ on 15 September 2009 more than two months after this song was posted on the blog on 12 July 2009. I had sent this comment after some hesitation because I was new to blogs and for that matter to internet itself and I was not sure whether my comment will get published. Fortunately, it all went well. 🙂 My comment got published :-

I love the music and specifically Hindi music/songs from old Hindi films and try to collect them in my collection i.e. cassettes or cds . Now a days I am collecting the lyrics for old songs and which contains true poetry and are true gems in our Hindi films history.

The great work being carried by you deserves much accolades and NOT a mere thank you, since the work being carried by you is priceless and very very precious for peoples like me.

After this initial comment, I kept visiting this blog regularly for those songs that I remembered from my younger days and which were missing from my collections of cassettes. My understanding of this blog then was that some of the songs that I was looking for were available here while others were not available.
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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 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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6511 Post No. : 20243

‘Sarhadi Lutera’ (1966) was produced and directed by S M Sagar. The cast included Shaikh Mukhtar, Saleem Khan, Sunita (debutant), Anwar Hussain, Meenakshi, Sham Kumar, Jagdeep, Kundan, Kumud Tripathi, Shahid Bijnori, Johny Whiskey, Helen, Madhumati, Jeevankala etc. The film belongs to the genre of action/stunt.
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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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6510 Post No. : 20238 Movie Count :

5208

#the Decade of Fifties – 1951 – 1960 #

#Debutant Movie – ‘Dwaarikaadheesh-1956’#

Today’s song is from the movie ‘Dwaarikaadheesh-1956’. This movie is making its debut on this blog today.

With over twenty thousand songs already on the blog, and over six thousand of them being from the decade of 1951-1960, I was shocked to note that this movie was still missing from the blog. I was even more surprised when I listened to a few songs from this movie. I must say that this movie has some great melodious compositions in it. It is likely that the songs from this movie were not available online in the past. Personally I had not heard any songs of this movie anywhere to the best of my knowledge. Nevertheless, almost four thousand songs from the decade of 1951-1960 are still missing from the blog. Some of them are available and some more songs may become available with time. As we cover these missing songs, we will come across movies that have not yet made their debuts in the blog.

I checked and double checked and finally came to the conclusion that this movie “Dwarkadheesh” is making its debut today in the blog.
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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 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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6506 Post No. : 20223

‘Sakhi Robin’ (1962) was produced by Dhanpat Rai under the banner of People’s Pictures and was directed by B J Patel. The star cast included Ranjan and Shalini in the lead roles supported by Nilofer, Rajan Kapoor, Babu Raje, Shri Bhagwan, Habib, Vishwa Mehra, Dalpat, Shyam, Ghory, Shetty, Bhushan Tiwari etc.
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6505 Post No. : 20218

“Laal e Yaman”(1956), a “costume drama” movie, was produced and directed by Nanubhai Vakil for Vakil Productions, Bombay. This movie had Daljit, Anita Guha, Minu Mumtaz,Al Nasir, Misha, Wazir Mohammad Khan, Niramjan Sharma, Manorama, Helen, Rajan Haksar, Ram Mohan, Sushil Kumar, Nadir Mota, Baby Rita etc in it.
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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 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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6502 Post No. : 20208

‘Thief of Baghdad’ (1968) was produced by Ramkumar Bohra and was directed by Shreeram Bohra. The cast included Dara Singh, Nishi, Helen, Savita, Jeevankala, P. Kailash, B.M. Vyas, Shaikh, Ram Kumar, Maqbool, Sunanda, Amrit Rana, Jilani, Sarita Devi, Munshi Munakka, Bijnor, Ramesh Kant, Johnny Whiskey, Dilip Dutt, Maruti, Rani, Saudagar Singh, Gani, Mohammad Ali, B. Sandow, Gulab, Mansoor, Mohammad Ali Steelman, Vimla, Khursheed etc.
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This article is the 20200th post in the blog on 6500th day of existence of the blog.

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6500 Post No. : 20200

Alphabetical list of actresses who have lip synced in Asha Bhonsle’s voice- Part I

(Asha Bhonsle singing for Actresses whose name begin with the letter A)

Asha Bhonsle passed away recently and many people paid tributes to her in various ways. One tribute that caught my eye was a video that carried snippets of 35 Asha Bhonsle songs picturised on 25 different actresses. The actresss were well known and the songs were well known too.
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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 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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6500 Post No. : 20198

I am presenting a song mixed with taraana and sargam, ‘kanta dha kanta dha kanta dha’ from ‘Sangeet Samrat Tansen’ (1962). It is a jugalbandi between Tansen (Bharat Bhushan) as singer and the dancer Naaz Parveen (Sabita Chatterjee) in the court of Raja (D K Sapru) of Rewa Kingdom.

The story of the film is majorly concentrated around Tansen and his childhood friend, Hansa (Anita Guha). Tansen is devoted to Hansa as well as to his music. So, he is always caught in a dilemma. As a result, most of the time, Hansa gets separated from Tansen because of the calls from his musical duties. In a way, their relationship is akin to that of Radha and Shyam.

When Tansen decides to get married to Hansa for the first time, his Guru, Mohammed Ghous (David) instructs him to join the royal court on an invitation from Raja of Rewa. After a few months, when he gets permission from Raja of Rewa to get married to Hansa, Shahenshah Akbar (S N Tripathi) orders Raja of Rewa to send Tansen to be one of his ‘navratnas’ in his court. Even though Raja of Rewa decides to reject the demand inviting the potential wrath from Akbar, Tansen decides to reluctantly accept the invitation as rejecting that would create problems for Raja of Rewa. After joining the court of Akbar, Hansa joins Tansen and Akbar has planned for their marriage in Delhi. However, a misunderstanding between Hansa and Tansen about his relationship with dancer Naaz Parveen who is, in reality Tansen’s disciple, forces her to leave Tansen and return to the ashram of Swami Haridas. They are united only after Tansen faints while singing Raag Deepak which revives Akbar’s daughter (Preeti Bala). It is dancer, Naaz Parveen who clears Hansa’s misunderstanding about her and requests her to be with Tansen who is slated to sing Raag Deepak. After hearing this, Hansa accompanies Naaz Parveen and rushes to Delhi. Seeing an unconscious Tansen, she sings Raag Megh Malhar and revives him.

The context of the song under discussion is that Tansen wants to get married to his childhood friend, Hansa after his musical training gets over both from his Guru, Mohammed Ghous and Swami Haridas (M Kumar). Tansen pays a visit to his Guru, Mohammed Ghous to take his permission to marry Hansa. However, his Guru reveals that Raja Ramchandra of Rewa Kingdom has invited him to be the court singer. Adhering to his Guru’s instructions, Tansen joins the court of Raja of Rewa where he gets the title of ‘Sangeet Shiromani Tansen’. On this occasion, Naaz Parveen, the Raj Nartaki (Royal Dancer) from the court of the kingdom of Orchha gives a dance performance on the taraana rendered by Tansen. Later, it turns out to be a jugalbandi between the dancer and the singer.

The dance starts with a taraana of rhythmic syllables after which it gets switched over to a duet song between the singer and the dancer. Towards the end, once again, the singer switches over to taraana with faster rhythmic syllables which the dancer is not able to match and she loses her balance. Later, she becomes Tansen’s disciple.

In some places, I have not been able to decipher the rhythmic syllables in which cases I have only indicated them as ‘rhythmic syllables’.

Video Clip:

Audio Clip:

Song-Kanta dha kanta dha (Sangeet Samrat Tansen)(1962) Singer-Manna Dey, Unknown female voice, Lyricist-Shailendra, MD-S N Tripathi

Lyrics (Based on Video Clip):

kanta dha
kanta dha
kanta dha..aa
kanta dha
kanta dha
kanta dha
ta na na na
tir ta na ra tir kit dum
ta na na na
tir ta na ra tir kit dum
ta na na na
ta na na na
tanum
tanum
tanum
ta na tir kit
kanta dha
kanta dha
kanta dha
ta na na na
tir ta na ra tir kit dum
ta na na na
tir ta na ra tir kit dum
ta na na na
ta na na na
tanum
tanum
tanum
ta na tir kit
kanta dha
kanta dha
kanta dha
sa ni ma pa dha
pa dha
re sa
sa ni dha
sa sa ma
sa pa ni dha ma

ta na na na
tir ta na ra tir kit dum
ta na na na
tir ta na ra tir kit dum
ta na na na
tir kit dum
tanum
tanum
tanum
kanta dha
kanta dha
kanta dha
kanta dha

[Rhythmic Syllables]

thrik thrik thrik thrik chhum sanan sanan chaayee ghata
thrik thrik thrik thrik chhum sanan sanan chaayee ghata
dhinak dhinak rumjhum bundan barsaayee ghata
dhinak dhinak rumjhum bundan barsaayee ghata
sagan kunj aali gunj sang aali kunj manohar
sagan kunj aali gunj sang aali kunj manohar
madmaati muskaati itlaati rasraati
madmaati muskaati itlaati rasraati
manjul mrid saawak maral
sukapit kapot ke hari lajaati
manjul mrid saawak maral
sukapit kapot ke hari lajaati

ang vasan mrid hasan dasan daamini sihaansini
ang vasan mrid hasan dasan daamini sinhaansini
sab nupur jhankaar chaar
chamak chamak
kantey
kantey
kantey
kanta dha
kanta dha
dha ma ga pa
ni dha ni pa ni dha
ni pa ma ga
ma sa ni dha ni pa
ma ga pa ma s ani sa
sa ga ma pa da ni
sa ga ma pa da ni sa
sa ga ma pa da ni sa
sa ga ma pa da ni sa…aa

[Faster rhythmic syllables]


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