Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs

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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.

Blog Day :6533Post No. :20322

Today’s song is from a Social film – Parakh-1944.

Made by Central Studios, Bombay the film was directed by Sohrab Modi. The music was by 2 MDs – Khursheed Anwar (7 songs) and Saraswati Devi (2 songs). The cast ofthe film included Mehtab, Balwant Singh, Kaushalya, Shahnawaz, Yakub, Sadiq Ali, Pratima Devi, Balraj Mehta and some 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.

Blog Day :6532Post No. :20321

Today’s song is from a very old film -Jeevan Prabhat-1937.

The film was made by Bombay Talkies. It was directed by Franz Osten. The music was by Saraswati Devi and the Lyricist was J.S.Casshyap. The film was Debut film for the lead actor Kishore Sahu and actress Renuka Devi. The cast included Devika Rani, Kishore Sahu, Mumtaz Ali, Maya Devi, Chandraprabha (sister of Saraswati Devi), Renuka Devi, Prithviraj Kapoor and many others.

In the initial era of Talkie films, Calcutta’s New Theatres and Poona’s Prabhat were the most well known filmmakers. They used to make films on social issues. Particularly, Prabhat was famous for keeping their films centred on the Reform themes like,Dowry, Child Marriage, Second Marriage, Cast difference etc.From the mid 30s one more company came into limelight and that was Bombay Talkies- founded by Himanshu Rai and Devika Rani. They also followed the trend and films on social issues like Untouchability, illiteracy etc were made.

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This article is written by Satyajit Rajurkar, 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.

Blog Day :6530Post No. :20315

My Tribute To The Legendary Playback Singer -Suman Kalyanpur

One of the last living legends, Smt. Suman Kalyanpur is no more. I will write a few words and then post this song as a tribute to the legend.

In the golden era of Hindi film music, there were voices that entertained, voices that captivated, and voices that touched the soul. Among the most exquisite of these was the voice of Suman Kalyanpur— a singer whose artistry, grace, and humility earned her a special place in the hearts of music lovers.

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This article is written by Avinash Scrapwala, 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.

Blog Day :6530Post No. :20314

#the Decade of Fifties – 1951 – 1960 #

The song under discussion in the post is from the movie ‘Saagar-1951.This movie ‘Saagar-1951’ had made its debut on the blog on 15.01.2014 and four more songs were added to its’ tally later.

“Saagar-1951” was directed by P. Jairaj for his home production P.J. Films Unit. It had Nargis, Jairaj, Bharat Bhushan, K.N. Singh, Veera, David, Durga Khote, Banke, Rajni, Krishna, Vimla, Neelam, Cecil, Bindu and others. This movie was passed by Censor Board on 02.06.1951. This movie has ten songs written by Pt. Narendra Sharma. Music for this movie is composed by S.K. Pal. Geeta Dutt, Sulochana Kadam, Asha Bhonsle, Manna Dey and Rajkumari are the playback singer in this movie.

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This article is written by Satyajit Rajurkar, 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.

Blog Day :6529Post No. :20312

Kamsune/Unsune songs of Asha Bhosle – 112

“Saaghar Labon Se Laga Le” is again a very rare song by Asha Bhosle from the film “Ek Bechara” (1972). The song is penned by Anand Bakshi and composed by Laxmikant Pyarelal.

“Ek Bechaara” (1972) was produced by B N Ghosh and directed by S M Abbas. the movie had Jeetendra, Rekha, Pran, Kalpana, Vinod Khanna, Johnny Walker, Bindu, Salomi, Anwar Hussain etc in it.

The film revolves around a simple-hearted villager whose honesty and devotion are tested by betrayal and conspiracy.

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This article is written by Avinash Scrapwala, 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.

Blog Day :6529Post No. :20311

#the Decade of Sixties – 1961 – 1970 #

#Sureelee Suman – Suman Kalyanpur – 28.01.1937 – 31.05.2026) #

Suman Kalyanpur the ‘Sureelee Suman’ of Hindi Film Music, and many regional languages music passed away on 31st May 2026. She was born on 28th January 1937. The news of her passing away came as a shock to music lovers. I got this news first on a WhatsApp group which I did not want to believe. When I checked on internet there was no such news. It was only on the next day that several sources carried this news and this bad news was confirmed.

As a music lover I had been listening to the voice of Suman Kalyanpur from early childhood. After coming into contact with this blog, I got the opportunity to share many of her songs and I enjoyed listening to these songs in the process of preparing their writeups.

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Blog Day :6529Post No. :20309

“Ghunghroo”(1952) was produced by Rajendra Jain and directed by Hiren Bose for Filmkaar Limited, Bombay. The movie had Om Prakash, Sumitra Devi, Kuldip Kaur, K N Singh, Murad, Badri Prasad etc in it.

Prints of “Ghunghroo”(1952) are not available and so it is difficult to find the story of the movie. But our inhouse movie researcher Mr Sadanand Kamath jee searched far and wide and pieced together the story of the movie which is given below:-

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This article is written by Satyajit Rajurkar, 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.

Blog Day :6528Post No. :20307

Kamsune/Unsune songs of Asha Bhosle – 111

With this song, we reach the single Nelson (as Hermes in cricket) of this series – 111 – “Na Taaj Chahiye Na Takht Chahiye” by Asha Bhosle is the next song in our rare/rarely heard songs series. This song is written by Hasrat Jaipuri and composed by Shankar Jaikishan. It is from the film “Saazish” (1975).

Saazish-1975’ was produced and directed by Kalidas for ‘Maya Movietone, Bombay’. It had Saira Banu, Dharmendra, Dev Kumar, Rajendra Nath, Madan Puri, Jagdish Raj, Murad, David, Helen etc. Iftekhar and Paintal make special appearance in this movie.

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This article is written by Avinash Scrapwala, 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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6527 Post No. : 20305

#the Decade of Fifties – 1951 – 1960 #

“Dharm Patni-1953” was directed by Ramchandra Thakur for ‘Harishchandra Pictures’. It was produced by Harishchandra Rao and it was passed by Censor Board on 21.11.1953. It has Nirupa Roy, Mahipal, Moti Sagar, Durga Khote, Yashodhara Katju, Neeroo, Mona, Kumar and Gope, Bhagwan Das, Dalpat, Eruch Tarapore, Hamid Majnu, Dewaskar, Maqbool, Deepak Naidu, Parvati Bai, Anwari, Vijaybala and R.S. Diwan. Actor Bhagwan made a guest appearance in this movie and was mentioned in the titles of the movie as ‘The Great Guest Artist’. Story & Dialogues of this movie was written by Dhananjay and Screenplay was written by Darshan. Editing of this movie was done by Baburao Barodkar. This movie has six songs which were written by Bharat Vyas (four songs) and Shewan Rizvi (two songs). Music for this movie as composed by Jamal Sen. The playback singers for this movie are Madhubala Zaveri, Asha Bhonsle, Mubarak Begam and Sulochana Kadam.
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This article is written by Avinash Scrapwala, 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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6527 Post No. : 20304

#the Decade of Fourties – 1941 – 1950 #

Regulars on the blog are well aware that I have been sharing songs sung by Sulochana Kadam for a long time. Our blog statistics page does not mention the total number of songs sung by her. I guess that the correct figure is yet to be confirmed. However we have so far covered more than one hundred songs sung by her. I have noted that coverage of her song has slowed down after her century of songs was reached in the blog.

I am on the look out for songs sung by her that are not yet covered on this blog. Today I came across this song which was for long considered as a lost song. However, a music lover has uploaded this song on internet. It is from the movie ‘Krishna Sudaama-1947’.
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