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Lo aaya Johny laalten
Posted on: February 16, 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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6422 | Post No. : | 19932 |
Today’s song is from a so-called ‘Social’ film, but actually a Murder and Mystery film – Laalten-1956.
The film was made by Harish Productions, Bombay and it was directed by Tara Harish, owner of the banner. Music Director was Hemant Kumar and his assistant was Ravi. There were 3 Lyricists, namely Indeevar, Shevan Rizvi and Qaif Irfani. The cast of the film included Geeta Bali, Motilal, Kanhaiya Lal, Mukri, Shammi, Harish, Mohan Choti, Uma Dutt and a host of B and C grade actors. The guest artiste was Bhudo Advani.
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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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6421 | Post No. : | 19928 |
Today’s song is a popular historical song from the film Hindustan Hamara-1950.
The film was made by Paul Zils Productions, Bombay and was directed by the owner of the banner, Paul Zils- a German. The Music Director was Vasant Desai. The film cast included the top stars of those times- Prithvuraj, Dev Anand, Jairaj, Durga Khote, Nalini Jaywant, Surendra, Wasti, K.N.Singh, Dewan Sharar, Prembath, Shambhu Mitra, Tripti Mitra, Yashodhara Katju and many others.
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Shubh din aaye shubh din aaye
Posted on: February 10, 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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6416 | Post No. : | 19911 |
Today’s song is from a social film, Rangeela-1953.
The film was produced and directed by Master Bhagwan for his own banner Bhagwan Art Productions, Bombay.The cast included Bhagwan, Poornima,Vivek, badri prashad, Baburao pehalwan, heera Sawant, Madhav Kale, Kammo, Cuckoo, Indira and a host of Bhagwan’s regular artists. Unlike other films of Bhagwan, C.Ramchandra did not give music to this film as he was busy with the film Anarkali-1953. So, Jamal Sen was the Music Director. Though a gifted and talented musician, he was known to be an unlucky Music Director.
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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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6415 | Post No. : | 19907 |
Today’s song is from the film Samaj Ko Badal Dalo-1947.
This was a Prakash Pictures film, directed by Vijay Bhatt and the music was by Khemchand Prakash. Lyricists were Roopdas, Pt. Indra and Qamar Jalalabadi. The cast of the film was Arun Ahuja, Mrudula, Umakant, Yakub, Leela pawar, Bikram Kapoor 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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6414 | Post No. : | 19904 |
Today’s song is a 2-part Triade from the film Panghat-1943.
From their initial C grade stunt /costume films, Prakash Pictures of Vijay and Shankar Bhatt turned to Mythological films after the mammoth success of Bharat Milap-1942 and occasionally made a few social films too. In the end Prakash made exclusively social films only till closing down the studio in 1971. In their busy times in the first half of the 1940s, they made today’s film as a quicky.The entire film was shot in 45 days. This was possible as they had taken mostly B grade artists who had plenty of free time for shootings.
Film Panghat-1943 was directed by K.J.Parmar and Mahesh Chander- both Cinematographers with Prakash Pictures.The music was by S.N.Tripathi, favourite of Prakash Pictures. The Lyricists were Pt. Indra and Ramesh Gupta. The cast included Ratnamala, Umakant, Susheel Kumar, Alaknanda, Jeevan, Leela pawar, Rajkumari Shukla, Baby Tara and many 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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6412 | Post No. : | 19897 |
Today’s song is a complete turn around for my style of writing on old films and music. It is like something “out of syllabus” for me ! Today’s song is from the film Chameli ki shaadi-1986. Usually, I restrict my choices between 30s to the 60s films. But there are some films made after 1970 ( and even some after 2000) which I liked very much. Chameli ki shaadi-1986 is one such film.
Actually I saw my last Hindi film in a theatre somewhere in the year 1975-76. After that I have not visited any Theatre. I have not seen any Multiplex from inside anytime. It does not mean that I stopped seeing films. In the 80s and 90s I saw films on my VCR and later on, on Television. As my age advanced, my patience receded and it was impossible for me to sit before a TV set for 4 hours to watch a movie of 2 1/2 hours and advertisements of 1 1/2 hours. In any case after the year 2000 the kind of films made were certainly not to my taste and I stopped seeing films completely, with some exceptions.
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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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6411 | Post No. : | 19892 |
Today’s song is from stunt film- Circus ki Sundari aka Circus Queen-1941.
The Film was made by producer Kikubhai Desai for his own banner Paramount Movietone, Bombay. It was directed by a veteran of such films, Balwant bhatt. The Music Director was Hafiz khan Mastana. The cast of the film included Miss Moti, Jal merchant, Gulab, puri, agha, A Kareem and others. The songs were written by P.L.Santoshi and A.Kareem.
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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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6411 | Post No. : | 19890 |
Today’s song is from an obscure film, but it is a special song because it is a duet sung by Meena Kumari – The Tragedy Queen – and A.R.Oza.
This Ranjit Movietone film was directed by Manibhai Vyas (27-4-1920 to 14-11-1993), who directed 20 Hindi films from film Dukhiyari-1937 to film Shri Krishna Bhakti-1973. The music was by Bulo C. Rani for songs written by Pt. Indra. The cast of the film was Khurshid Jr., Meena Kumari, Anjum, Nihal, Qamar, Shaikh Hasan, Nafeej Khalili etc. Except the 2 sisters i.e. Khurshid Jr. and Meena Kumari, I am not aware of any other cast members mentioned here. None of them are found in any other films. There were 11 songs and some of the singers like Savitri Gidwani, Chunilal Pardeshi are not known to me. Others like Mohd. Faruqi and A.R.Oza are atleast known to me.
Despite being known to be a writer on old films for the last 14 years, such unknown names give me an Inferiority Complex and a feeling that no one can know everything in any field, which makes the person humble too !
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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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6409 | Post No. : | 19881 |
Today’s song is the last song from the Social film Sangam-1954.
There were 3 films titled Sangam, made in 1941, 1954 and 1964. The Raj Kapoor film of 1964 was a Hit film. Today’s film was produced by J.P.Agrawal and was directed by Kiran Kumar (not the son of actor Jeevan). The cast of the film included Kamini Kaushal (real name Uma Kashyap), Shekhar (real name Indriya Daman), Shashikala, Jeevan (real name Omprakash Dar), K.N.Singh, Murad, Chaman Puri, Ratan Kumar (real name Syed Nazar Ali), Neera and others. The Music Director was Ram Ganguly. His assistant fort his film was Suresh Kumar (Shah).
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