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Diya jalaa kar aap bujhaaya
Posted on: September 21, 2012
Today (21 september) is the birth anniversary of Allah Wasai, popularly known as Noorjehaan (21 september 1926- 23 december 2000). She bagan her career in early 1940s as a child artist and soon graduated into adult roles as an actor-singer. She was at her peak when partition happened and she went to Pakistan, leaving the field of the leading female playback singing of Hindi movies up for grabs.
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This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
In my native place in Mangalore district (and perhaps other places in India specially in villages), it was a tradition in almost every house that all family members would assemble in the Pooja Room soon after the dusk for singing some devotional songs. In a joint family system, this tradition also worked as a means of creating bonding among large family members. After shifting to Mumbai in early 50s, with a nuclear family and a city culture, this tradition slowly got discontinued. But my mother would sing at least a couple of devotional songs every day after dusk while doing her kitchen chores. One of the devotional songs which I had often heard in my childhood was in the Konkani language, my mother tongue. I was very much impressed by the lyrics and the tune of the song.
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Noorjahaan acted in 69 Hindi talkies and sang 127 Hindi movie songs according to wikipedia.This blog has 20 songs sung by her, so we already have about 16 % of all songs that she sang in Hindi movies.
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“Village Girl” (1945) also known as “Gaaon Ki Gori”, is a movie which was a Ramneek Productions movie. It was directed by K Amarnath, who had also written the story and the screenplay of the movie. The star cast of the movie included names like Noorjehan, Nazir, Jagdish Sethi, Mishra, Shanta Patel, Ibrahim, Nawaz, Chandrika, Ghosh, Durga Khote, Rama Shukul, Ananth Marathe,Rajkumari Shukla, Bikram Kapoor, Geeta Nizami, Rajkumari Kapoor, Ghulam Rasool, M.A. Khan etc.
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“Zeenat” (1945) is a movie that is directed by Shaukat Hussain Rizvi. This movie had Noorjahaan, Zohrabai Ambalewaali, Cuckoo, Shashikala (then a child), Baby Khursheed (later known as Shyama) etc. In fact, this movie seems to be a movie with mainly female actors . : D All the eight songs of this movie have been sung only by female singers, and that includes an all female qawwaali (Aahen na bharin shiqwe na kiye ).
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Throughout the world, there have been tragic love stories that are simply known by the name of the lovers- viz Romeo Juliet, Laila Majnu etc. In Punjab, there have been not one or two, four four such love stories. The most well known of them is “Sohni Mahiwal”. The second most well known must be “Mirza Sahiban”.
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Koi prem ka deke sandesaa
Posted on: November 19, 2010
In this blog, I have been discussing Sajjad Hussain’s compositions these days. I have covered nearly 40 % of all the songs that he composed in Hindi movies and finding the remaining songs is becoming a tall order as they are all rare songs, not easil available. So every day I wonder where my next Sajjad Hussain song will come from.
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Saajnaa more saajnaa
Posted on: October 16, 2010
I have been posting the songs composed by Sajjad Hussain these days. I have so far discussed three songs from his debut movie viz “Dost”(1944).
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Alam par alam sitam par sitam
Posted on: October 12, 2010
Sajjad Hussain made his debut an an independent music director with “Dost”(1944). With the passage of so much time, very little is known about this movie today. What is known is that this movie had actors like Noorjahan, Vatsala Kumthekar, Motilal, Husnbano, Maya Banerjee, Kanhaiyalal etc in it.
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When I look at the roles of lead actresses of Hindi movies, I find that the ability to cry is an essential quality that they must possess. So I cannot help but feel that most actresses who entertained hopes of a successful careers in Hindi movies needed to have lots of practice of crying. In other words, it always helped if they came from families that offered them lots of opportunities to hone this skill. So does it mean that most actresses in Bollywood had unhappy childhood ? Shudder !
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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