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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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6492 Post No. : 20180

Today’s song is from the Mythological film Mahatma Vidur-1943.

1943 was a year in which the II world war was in full swing. Both sides were almost equal. The effects of the war on India were… it faced the infamous Bengal Famine, caused by the war profiteering. Controls on film production were tightened by the Government. I.P.T.A. became operative with its first staged p0lay ‘ Nibanna’. Film Kismet became one of the biggests Hits ever. V.Shantaram’s Rajkamal Kalamandir debuted with Shakuntala, as did Mehboob with his film Najma. Government made showing of Newsreel before any film mandatory. Film Raj Nartaki’s english version The Court Dancer was exhibited in the USA, first time for an Indian film.
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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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6491 Post No. : 20178

‘Ramu Daada’ (1961) was a typical ‘B’ grade film produced and directed by B K Adarsh. The cast included Shaikh Mukhtar, Jaymala, Salim Khan, Sapru, Nilofer, Honey Irani, Chand Usmani, Rajan Haksar, C S Dubey, Sheila Vaz, Shakila Bano Bhopali etc.
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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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6491 Post No. : 20177

Today’s funny song is from the stunt film Miss Good Night-1960.

MISS was yet another favourite title of Hindi filmmakers. There were as many as 27 films with titles starting with the word MISS. Compared to this, the males had an upper hand. There were 34 film titles starting with the word Mr. And then, as expected, there were only 3 film titles starting with Mr. and Mrs. Alas ! There was not a single film title starting with the word Mrs. What an injustice !
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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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6490 Post No. : 20174

Today’s song is from a dubbed film Aayi phir se Bahaar-1960.

Originally made by Asha Productions, Madras, the film’s rights were bought by National productions, Madras. It was directed by A.Bhim Singh and the Music Director was Vedpal Verma. The film was originally a Tamil Hit film ” Raja Rani”-1956. The cast of the film was Padmini, Shivaji Ganeshan, Raja Sulochana, Rajendran, Mathuran, Krishnan and many other Tamil artists. The Hindi version was produced by D.K.Tehrani, Ambalal Patel and Kanti Joshi. The 8 songs of the film were written by Indivar (4), Sajan Bihari (2) and Vedpal verma (2). All the songs were composed on the original Tamil film song tunes, so the MD Vedpal verma had only to arrange music players 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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6489 Post No. : 20173

‘Baaghi’ (1964) was produced by R L Suri under the banner of Mukul Movies and was directed by Ram Dayal. The star cast included Pradeep Kumar and Leela Naidu in the lead role supported by Mumtaz, Veena, Jayant, Hiralal, Jeevan, Vijaya Chowdhary, Jagdeep, Helen, Madhumati, Mridula, Ulhas, Naaz, Rajan Haksar etc. This was Ram Dayal’s first film as director though he had been producing films under his banner, Mukul Pictures/Movies/Enterprises.
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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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6489 Post No. : 20170

Today’s song is from an 88 year old film jailor-1938.
The film was made by Minerva Movietone, Bombay, owned by the producer and director of this film. The music Director was Mir Saheb, who had an assistant named Ramchandra Narhar Chitalkar, who became famous as C.Ramchandra in later years. The cast of the film was Sohrab Modi, Leela Chitnis, Sadiq Ali, Eruch Tarapore, Sheela, Shareefa, Kusum Deshpande and many others. The Lyricist was Amir Haider Kamaal ‘ Amrohavi’, who later became famous as Kamaal Amrohi and husband of actress Meena Kumari.
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This article is written by Peevesie’s mom, 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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6488 Post No. : 20169

Hullo Atuldom

With this post we wish Indian playback singer, and occasional music-composer, Sishtla Sreeramamurthy Janaki, (better known as S. Janaki) on her birthday on 23rd April. She turns 88 today.
She is one of the best-known playback singers in South India who has recorded nearly 48,000 songs in all the South Indian languages and Hindi, Sanskrit, Odia, Tulu, Urdu, Punjabi, Badaga, Bengali, Konkani etc. put together (I suppose) That is why I have called her INDIAN playback singer. She is also said to have sung in English, Japanese, German, and Sinhala. She is one of the most versatile singers in India. The language in which she sang the most songs in her career was Kannada, followed by Malayalam. She is widely acclaimed as the “Queen of Expression and Modulation”.
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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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6488 Post No. : 20168

‘Daaman Aur Aag’ (1973) was produced by J R Gupta-Rajhans and was directed by Vinod Kumar. The cast included Saira Bano, Sanjay Khan, Balraj Sahni, Rajendra Nath, Madan Puri, K N Singh, Anwar Hussain, Mukri, Sundar, Sanjana, Zeb Rahman, Chand Usmani, Lolita Chatterjee, Praveen Paul, Sadhana Khote, Shetty, Bhushan Tiwari etc.
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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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6488 Post No. : 20165

Today’s song is from an obscure, social film-Deep Jalta Rahe-1959.

India has been, from the beginning, a prolific producer of films.Films have become an inseparable part of Indian people. Earlier there were other sources of entertainment like Radio, dramas, travel, Jatras, get togethrs etc. But now Entertainment means only films.

In January 2022, Shri Girdharilal Vishwakarma ji of Jodhpur- a well known Musicologist and a collector of exclusive records- published some statistics on RMIM forum about Hindi films. According to it, the total number of Hindi films from 1931 to June 2017 (86.5 years) was 12891, giving an average of 150 films per year. The averages per decade till the year 2000 came to 134 films, but in the next 16.5 years the number of films was 208.
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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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6487 Post No. : 20164

I present a short song, ‘nainon ke darpan mein’ from Episode-58 of the TV Serial, ‘Mahabharat’ (1988) which is rendered by Roopa Ganguly in the role of Draupadi/Sairandhri. The song is written by Pandit Narendra Sharma which is set to music by Rajkamal. The lyrics are short with sitar interludes being primarily played. Roopa Ganguly is a trained Rabindra Sangeet vocalist and a classical dancer.
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