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Tora naaheen Kanhaiyya

Posted by: on: August 29, 2025


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 6251 Post No. : 19333

Today’s song is from a very old film Anath Ashram-1937.

In the early era, when silent films were made, it was Maharashtra – especially Bombay which led the new medium as the production centre for silent films. Of course, some films were also being made in other places like Poona, Kolhapur, Coibtor, Nashik, Bangalore, madras, Calcutta and other occasional towns.

After the Talkie films started, Calcutta came up with one of the most organised, well equipped and big studios, making films in Bangla, Hindi and some other eastern languages. That was New theatres, Calcutta. In those days, Calcutta quickly rose as a busy centre for filmmaking in several languages and many studios and production houses came up, but no one could match the magnificence of New Theatres in terms of consistency, number of star actors, actresses and directors along with technicians. New Theatre ruled supreme till the rise of Bombay Talkies and Ranjit Studios in Bombay.
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Main khush hona chaahoon

Posted by: on: December 15, 2012


This article is written by Shekhar Gupta, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.

Music director Rai Chand Boral (1903-81) is credited with bringing playback to Hindi cinema with the number “Main khush hona chaahoon khush ho na sakoon”, a chorus song in the New Theatre production Dhoop Chhaaon (1935). A personna no less than the doyen of Hinsustani Cine Sangeet, the late Anil Biswas, reportedly complimented Boral, recepient of the prestigious Dadasaheb Phalke Award in 1978, as the Father of Indian Cinema Music.
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