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Kisee ka koi naheen jag mein
Posted on: March 19, 2026
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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6453 | Post No. : | 20036 |
Today’s song is from a social film – Khan Bahadur-1937.
The year 1937 was a year of Revolution for the newly started Talkie Film. Initially the films were mainly based on Folk tales, Parsi dramas and Mythological stories. 1937 was a year in which the Film industry was trying to drop its old skin and don a New Avtar. From this year, a variety of subjects were used to make films. If we briefly look at some path breaking, landmark films using Novel themes, we will understand how the film industry was attempting to change itself.
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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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6452 | Post No. : | 20030 |
Today’s song is from a social film Azad-1940.
The film was made by Bombay Talkies. Bombay Talkies was one of the premiere production companies of India in those times. Its films became very popular and the music was lapped up by the audience. There were other equally famous production houses like Prabhat Films,Ranjit studios and New Theatres of Calcutta, all churning out blockbusters. While Ranjit showed how to make money, Bombay Talkies added prestige to films.
Language in Hindi films was a great issue in those times and it is here that Bombay Talkies won hands down ! Prabhat films had its Hindi totally influenced by Marathi ( and hence was popular in western India), and New Theatres films had their Hindi straight lifted from books of Hindi Prachar Sabha- too pure ! It was only Bombay Talkies films which used the colloquial language of India- easily understood by the masses and acceptable to all classes equally. While Prabhat called it “Preet” , and New Theatres said ” Prem”, Bombay Talkies used the words like ” Pyar” and “Muhabbat” – a mix of Urdu and Hindi ( called Hindustani). Prabhat dialogues were too formal, while New Theatres’ were highly literary and Bombay Talkies used day to day language understood easily over the length and breadth of India.
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Main baagh kee sundar titlee
Posted on: March 17, 2026
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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6451 | Post No. : | 20024 |
Today’s song is from an utterly obscure, unknown film of the first decade of the talkie era – Kaun kisi ka-1939.
I have been writing posts on old films starting from the 1930s to the end of the 1960s, but I had not heard about this film till a few years back.
During the early era, very few films from the 1930’s are well known or atleast known, but most films remained unknown. Only the films made by well known film studios like Prabhat, Ranjit, Sagar, New Theatres, Minerva, Bombay Talkies etc are known to people.
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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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6450 | Post No. : | 20019 |
Today’s song is from the social film Mera Haque-1939.
Made by Huns Pictures of Master Vinayak, the film was directed by Parshwanath Altekar. Music was by D.P.Korgaonkar aka Datta Korgaonkar – better known to Hindi film lovers as K.Datta. Lyricist was Pt. Anand Kumar. The cast of the film consisted of Baburao Pendharkar, Meenakshi Shirodkar, Vimla Sardesai, Usha Mantri, Dada aka D.S.Salvi, V. S. Jog, Damuanna Malvankar and others.
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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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6448 | Post No. : | 20010 |
Today’s song is from an almost 90 year old film Sunehra Sansar-1936.
The film was made by the East India Film Co.,Calcutta. It was directed by a veteran Debki Bose. The music was by K.C.Dey ( 1893-1962)- the only blind music composer of those times. Later, of course, two more such Music directors came up. One was Manoharlal Sonik (1923-1993) and the other one was Ravindra Jain (1944-2015). Te lyricist of all the 21 songs of the film was also the film’s Hero, Vijay Kumar Pandit, B.A. The other cast members were Rampyari, Menaka Devi (Debut film in Calcutta), Gul Hamid, Kamla Jharia, Azurie, Mazhar Khan, K.N.Singh (Debut film) and few others.
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Aankhon waale tu dekh ke chal
Posted on: March 13, 2026
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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6447 | Post No. : | 20005 |
Today’s song is from an unusual film Parbat pe apna Dera -1944.
Made by V.Shantaram for his own banner Rajkamal Kalamandir, the film was also directed by him. The music was by Vasant Desai for the songs written by Dewan Sharar-who wrote the film’s story also. For the 9 songs of this film, as many as 7 singers were used, like Parshuram, Vasant desai, Khan mastana, Naseem Akhtar, Zohrabai Ambalewali, Ameerbai Karnataki and Lalita Deulkar.
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Hans le gaa le mauj udaa le
Posted on: March 11, 2026
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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6445 | Post No. : | 19998 |
Today’s song is from a social film Nirmal-1952.
The film was produced by R.L.Dembaka and B.C.Pandit. The director was S.Upendra and the music was by Bulo C. Rani. This obscure film had the cast of Purnima, Amarnath, Mirza Musharraf, Shyam Kumar, Cuckoo and others. The 8 songs of this film were all written by Moti, B.A.
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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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6444 | Post No. : | 19996 |
Today’s song is from a film which is almost 90 year old – Jaagirdar-1937. It was made by Sagar Movietone, Bombay.
The talkie films started in 1931 and there was a great activity in the film industry. Major filmmakers from the Silent era were cautious about the future of the Talkie Films, but some people with a vision jumped into making Talkie films. At the same time some more adventurous people entered filmmaking and new studios and companies came up.
The first decade, i.e. from 1931 to 1940 was full of experiments. At a time many Genres were tried. Many experiments were undertaken. The industry was still under the influence of a silent era mentality, so those who could not cope up with the new approach soon eclipsed-like Madon Theatres. Intelligent directors understood that the Talkie films have to be made with a different approach- like V.Shantaram and Sohrab Modi, for example. They not only became famous but also lasted for longer periods.
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