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“Toofaan”(1954) was directed by Ram Prakash for Starlight Pictures Production. The movie had Sajjan, Munawwar Sultana, Vijaylaxmi, Pran, Pratima Devi, Amarnath, Tiwari etc in it.
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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. This article is meant to be posted in atulsongaday.me. If this article appears in sites like lyricstrans.com and ibollywoodsongs.com etc then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.

KARWAT (1949) was produced under the banner of Shri Gopal Pictures and directed by Gopal. IMDb has also given the name of B R Chopra as director (uncredited). The star cast included Geeta Nizami, Satish, Paro Devi, Jeevan, Leela Mishra, Sarita Devi, Kamalakant etc. According to information on the website, the film was a costume drama. The film has 11 songs penned by six lyricists – Saifuddin Saif (6), D N Madhok (1), Buta Ram Sharma (1), Saraswati Kumar Deepak (1), Pardes Balam (1) and Charan Das (1). The songs were set to music by Hansraj Bahl. The film appears to have been delayed in the background of partition and aftermath.
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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.

Most of of the present generation of music lovers may not remember Shiv Dayal Batish ( S D Batish), the classical musician, vocalist, playback singer and music director. During his filmy career in 40s and 50s, he composed music for 19 films (including 2 films with his pseudo name of Nirmal Kumar) and sang about 100 songs. His music compositions for Hindi films are generally labelled as Lahore style of Hindi film music which was used by Lahore based music directors like Pandit Amarnath, Pandit Govindram, Master Ghulam Haider, Shyam Sundar, Khurshid Anwar etc. S D Batish was the cousin of other Batish brothers – Pandit Amarnath, Husnlal and Bhagatram. It is said that originally, the family surname was ‘Vats’ ( or Wats) which became ‘Vatish’ and then to ‘Batish’.
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I have mentioned it that I know very little about the movies and actors that came before late 1940s. For instance, I have very little knowledge about this movie called “Daasi” (1944). As the name of the movie suggests, this movie has to be about a woman suffering at the hand of her husband. But that is all the knowledge I have. Then I have the songs of this movie to go by.
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