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This article is written by Nahm, 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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6353 Post No. : 19691

As usual, I cannot keep away from Rafi songs for long. I stumbled upon this movie in the list of songs movie-wise and saw only 7 songs are posted out of 12. The movie is Mastani (1955), the middle of 50’s decade when Rafi Sahab was still finding his niche in the industry and was adding variety of flavourful spices in each new song, he sang for each new actor. The talent of instilling mischief and new murkiyan in the rendition, became the highlight of each music score, who ever be the composer. It also put the other male playback singers in the shade because none could compete. Not the old brigade of singers of 40’s, who sedate style of singing was soon to become obsolete. Mid 50’s was also the time when music score with Rafi sahab as solo male singer started.

Some thought he could find his core strength in playback and people can bracket him into a comic singer, or a theme song singer, or faqeer baba singer. But it was soon clear, that there was no genre of song that the MD could compose and Rafi Sahab could not sing. This was the voice of hero, in romance and sadness, voice of the character actors, and voice anyone else having a song to sing in the films script.
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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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6352 Post No. : 19687

#the Decade of Forties – 1941 – 1950 #
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Today’s song is from the movie ‘Nanand Bhojai-1949’. This social movie was directed by Ratibhai Punatar for Ajit Pictures, Bombay. The cast of this movie included Nirupa Roy, Manhar Desai, Dulari, Babu Raje, Chhagan Romeo, Charubala, Najeerabai, Ibrahim, Suryakant, Latabai, Kamlesh Thakar, Kusum Thakkar, Shobha Thakur, Janakrai Mehta 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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6351 Post No. : 19684

Today’s song is from the Historical film Padmini-1948. Made by Punjab Film Corporation, it was produced and directed by its owner Wali Saheb. All the 11 songs of this film were also written by Wali Saheb. The Music Director was Ghulam Haider. The cast of the film was Mumtaz Shanti ( wife of Wali Saheb), Ashok Kumar, Mumtaz Ali, Samson, Maya devi, Neelam, Sultana, A. Shah and others. The story of Padmini is very well known and is available easily on the internet, hence I am not going into that.
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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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6351 Post No. : 19683 Movie Count :

5161

#the Decade of Thirties – 1931 – 1940 #
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(Debutant Movie-‘Double Cross-1938’)

Today I am presenting a song from a movie of 1938. Regulars on this blog will be surprised to see a write-up from me presenting a song from a movie which is around eighty-seven years old. I have been sharing older songs but this must be the oldest of them. I had come across this song more than a year back.

This song is from the movie ‘Double Cross’ from the year 1938. Most of us are aware of the movie titled ‘Double Cross-1977’. This movie of 1977 has a song that is part of my childhood and I had shared that song on this blog. Adding songs from movies with same title is one of my missions, and that is the reason for this post as well. With this post ‘Double Cross’ of 1938 joins the ‘Double Cross’ of ‘1977 🙂 on the blog.

“Double Cross-1938” was directed by M. Bhawnani for ‘Bhawnani Productions, Bombay’. M. Bhawnani was also the story writer of this movie. The cast of this movie had Bimla Kumari, S.B. Nayampalli, Faity (Fatty?) Prasad, Ameena, David, Kishore, A.S. Gyani, R. Dilawar, Master Hussain, Rai Mohan and others. This movie has eight songs as listed in Geet Kosh Vol-I (1931-1940). However the lyricists name is not known for this movie. Music for this movie was composed by Pt Badri Prasad and Walter Coffman was the ‘orchestra organizer’(as mentioned in Geet Kosh). Singer’s names for all the eight songs are mentioned in Geet Kosh. They are Gauhar (Bikaner), Bimla Kumari, Bashir Qawwaal, Faity Prasad, and Ameena.
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This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, 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.

This song post marks the 300th song of Usha Khanna in the blog as a music director.

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6349 Post No. : 19678

‘Main Hoon Alladin’ (1965) was produced by K N Sippy and was directed by Mohmmed Hussain. The cast included Ajit, Saeeda Khan, Madan Puri, Maruti, David, Amar, Jagirdar, Sham Kumar, Ratnamala, Mumtaz Begum, Munshi Munaka, Mulchand, Khalil, Nazir Kashmiri, Habib and others. The film was based on ‘Arabian Nights’ stories and belongs to ‘costume and fantasy’ genre.

The film is available in the VCR format. Though the film is in colour, the quality of both video and audio is not up to the mark. There appears to be some deletion of scenes at a few places as the story does not give a feel of a smooth changeover. As it is, the story of the film itself appears to be an amalgam of sub-plots. The first part mostly covers the character around Alladin and his love interest, Salma while the second part mostly gives the impression of a repeat of the fairytales of ‘Alladin and the Wonderful Lamp’. Still, the film is interesting to watch and all the songs are melodious.
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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.

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6346 Post No. : 19665

Here is this yet another rare song from Asha Bhosle. “Mohabbat Se Roshan Hai” is written by Raja Mehdi Ali Khan and composed by Madan Mohan. It is from the movie “Nawab Sirajuddaula” (1967).

Four songs from this album have already been posted on this blog. Here’s the fifth and final song. With this song, the movie joins the rank where all songs are covered or as we Atulites call it – Yippeed!!

“Nawab Sirajudaula” (1967) was a Lok Bharti Chitra Production. It was directed by Ramchandra Thakur. The movie had Bharat Bhushan, Kalpana, Manhar Desai, Moti Sagar, Daisy Irani, B. M. Vyas, Naseem, Johnny Walker, Murad etc in it.
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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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6346 Post No. : 19664

Today’s song is from a very obscure film – Tara-1949.

The cast of the film was Majnu, Kuldip Kaur, Jawahar kaul, Shyama,Nayantara, Chand Burke etc etc. This is a duet song sung by Satish Batra and Premlata. Aziz Kasmiri’s songs were composed by the melody master Vinod. The film was directed by R D Parinja.
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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.

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6344 Post No. : 19657

Kamsune/Unsune songs of Asha Bhosle – 71

Today’s rare/rarely heard Asha Bhosle is from a 1977 movie “Chakkar Pe Chakkar”.

It was directed by Ashok Roy for Bipin Films International, Bombay. This movie starred Shashi Kapoor, Rekha, Pran, Madan Puri, Naaz, Amjad Khan, Bindu, Asrani, Raza Murad, Lalita Pawar, Bhagwan, Rajesh Behl, Tarun Ghosh, Bhushan Tiwari, Maruti, Ranveer Raaj, Dhanraj, Ram Mohan, Dilip Dutt, Viju Khote, Shekhar Purohit, Sudhir, Ram Mohan, Leena Das, Paresh Nanda, Rajan Haksar etc in it.
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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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6339 Post No. : 19641 Movie Count :

5155

#The Decade of Seventies – 1971 – 1980 #
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#Bhoole-Bisre Geet # (Debutant Movie-Mastaan Daadaa-1977)
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In this post I am once again presenting a club-dance song sung by Asha Bhonsle. It is from the movie “Mastaan Daadaa-1977”. I have no recollections of having heard this song before. This songs appears to be a forgotten song which is a standard fate of songs from movies that have been forgotten.

“Mastaan Daadaa-1977” was directed by Satyen Bose for ‘Satyen Bose Pictures, Bombay’. This movie was passed by Censor Board on 07.03.1977. It had Ashok Kumar, Sanjay, Parveen Babi, Dev Kumar, Anita Dutt, Ranjeet, Bindu, Raj Mehra, Brahmachari, Habib, V. Gopal, Shekhar Purohit, Pardesi, Madhup Sharma, Sushil Bhatnagar, Major Anand, Bhagwan Sinha, Prakash Mishra, Ratna, Jerry, Bhola, Supariwala, Dubey, Master Anwar, Master Yusuf, Master Rajesh and others. Agha, Jagdeep, Gauri Verma and Sameer had a guest appearance 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.

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6339 Post No. : 19640

Kamsune/Unsune songs of Asha Bhosle – 70

We are slowly and steadily moving towards a century of rare/rarer/rarely heard songs of Asha Bhosle. Another 30 more to reach the milestone.

Today I present to you an extremely rare song “Tum Bhi Jhoote Hum Bhi Jhoote” from a C grade thriller “Rani Mera Naam” (1972). The song was written by Majrooh Sultanpuri and composed by R D Burman.
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