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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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6319 Post No. : 19565

Today’s song is from the film Sangam-1954.

There were 3 films with this title, made in 1941, 1954 and 1964. The 1964 film is known to all as it had all top stars of that time, in lead roles and a Raj Kapoor touch. The 1941 film was a bilingual film , in Marathi and Hindi, made by Navyug Pictures, owned by the famous Marathi writer Acharya Atre and Master Vinayak.
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6301 Post No. : 19501

“Laal Pari”(1954) was produced by Gulshan Bahl and directed by Kedar Kapoor for N C Films, Bombay. The movie had Shakeela, Mahipal, Kuldeep Kaur, Ramayan Tiwari, B. M. Vyas, Helen, Maruti, Johnny Walker etc in it.

Asad Bhopali was the lyricist and Hansraj Bahl, brother of producer Gulshan Bahl was the music director.
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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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6245 Post No. : 19313

Today’s song is from the ” Kam sune – Unsune ” film Pensioner-1954.

When you say that ‘Colgate is No. 1 Toothpaste’, it does not mean that everyone in India uses Colgate. It only means that the majority of people use Colgate and hence it is called No. 1 toothpaste. The decade of the 1950s was known as’ The Golden Era of Film Music’. It did not mean that there were no films with mediocre or poor music. It only means maximum films had wonderful music. In this decade there were few – only few – films whose music was not famous, for whatever reasons. Today’s film was one such film.

In the war period from 1939 to 1945, the British Government in India had coaxed the filmmakers to make films which would help the war efforts. These were called ‘ Propaganda Films’ and the Government gave special subsidies and other concessions ( like extra quota of Raw Film at control rates) to the producer. During the 1950s the Indian Government wanted to boost the ‘Small Savings’ habit among the citizens. Some films were made upholding this scheme. Today’s film Pensioner-1954 was one such film.
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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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6237 Post No. : 19282

Today’s song is from a mysterious film – But Tarash-1947.

When I first heard this film’s name, for a very long time, I was puzzled about its meaning. First I thought ‘ But’ is written by mistake for ‘Boot’. But Then what was Tarash ?
Was it also by mistake, for ‘Trash’ ? No, it could not be !

Very wisely, I referred to my dictionary of ” Urdu into English and vice versa”. Conveniently, it lists Urdu words in Roman script, so one who can not read Urdu, can also use this dictionary easily. This dictionary is compiled by The Rev. T.Cravel,M.A. and it was published in 1889 from Lucknow. This book is one of my prized possessions and I got this from my father 70 years ago. This 136 year old book has to be handled very carefully as its pages have become yellowish brown and very sensitive for breakages. The dictionary meaning of ” But Tarash” is ‘One who sculpts an idol’. In Hindi we call it a ‘Shilpkar’ or a ‘ Moortikar’.
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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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6228 Post No. : 19255

#The Decade of Forties – 1941 – 1950 #
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(Celebrating Saawan-2025-8)
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If one takes a look at the number of saawan songs’ on the blog saawan songs from the decades of 1930s through 1970s that are yet to be represented here. This year we are posting some songs from this category under the ‘celebrating saawan-2025’ series. Today’s song is the eighth song in this series.

The song under discussion is from the 1948 movie ‘Gopinath’. It was directed by Mahesh Kaul for Shanti Lokchitra, Bombay. It was a “social” movie. The cast of this movie had Raj Kapoor, Trupti Mitra, Latika, Nand Kishore, Sachin Ghosh, Randheer, Anwari Bai, Feroz, Mahesh Kaul, Bay Zubeida, Niranjan Tiwari and others. This movie has nine songs written by Ram Murty – five songs, and four bhajans which are attributed to Surdas and Meerabai two bhajans each. The singers for this movie are Meena Kapoor, Ninu Mazumdar, and Shamshad Begam.
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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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6223 Post No. : 19237

#The Decade of Fifties – 1951 – 1960 #
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(Celebrating ‘Saawan’-2025-2)
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#Desh Kee Mittee Kee Khushboo#

The month of saawan is at its peak. Activities like visiting temples, offering prayers, having get-togethers and visiting nearby tourist places reach their peak in this season. This Sunday there a was trip arranged by the family club of the colony at my new workplace. However, I could not participate in that due to other priorities. People from my department who were part of this trip told me that the place they visited had a big farm with a ‘lake/pond’ around and a temple of goddess. The snacks and lunch were arranged from the canteen at our work place only and people enjoyed ‘antaaksharee’, housie, playing games and relaxing in the midst of lush green fields around. We in India celebrate nature, and we celebrate seasons. We pay our respect to nature through many customs and rituals. Different religious and spiritual activities are practiced during this period. People all over the country follow these customs, rituals, and traditions with some local variations.
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6221 Post No. : 19227

“Nav Durga”(1953) was produced by Homi Wadia and directed by Babubhai Mistri for Basant Pictures Bombay. The movie had Usha Kiran, Mahipal, SN Tripathi, Sulochana Chatterji, Amarnath, Agha Shapur, Raja Sandow etc. in it.
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6214 Post No. : 19194 Movie Count :

5098

“Maaya Nagri”(1957) was produced by Rijhumal Sevaram and directed by A M Khan for Sharda Productions, Bombay. This “Kalpnik” film had Shakila, Mahipal, Murad, KrishnaKumari, Amarnath, Mohini, Jagdish Kanwal, Kesri, Mirajkar, Ramlal, Ansari, M Rajesh, Chandabai, Shahgul, Maha Gul, Anis Shirazi, Sheila Vaz, Kanchanmala etc in it.
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This article is the 19100th song post in the blog.

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6184 Post No. : 19100

Regulars of the blog must have noticed unusually high number of posts appearing in the blog off late. It appears as if the blog had arrived at the 19000 post mark just a few days ago. It turns out that we have left that milestone behind and we are onto the next century milestone now, viz song post number 19100 !
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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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6153 Post No. : 19003

Today’s song is from a film having a very ‘confusion causing’ title- Lachak-1951.

Yesterday morning, one of my Facebook friends, who is also a lover of old hindi film songs, sent me a message on messenger….” Today SLBS had broadcast a song from the film Lachak-1951,naming Inayat Ali as the Music Director. As per HFGK Lachak-1951 had music by Pt. Motiram. I am confused. Can you please solve this issue ?”
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